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bolophonic

bolophonic

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Dec 10, 2009
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Durham, NC
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#1
My tattoo artist stays booked for months in advance so I just finally got my turn last week with an appointment that I made in March. I had no set agenda, because he is a world-class freehand artist and everything he has done has far exceeded my expectations and my own vision.

So last Saturday, I suggested that perhaps it was time to sleeve off my right arm and he set to work.

All in all, we did about 3.5 hours in the chair. He had already finished several pieces and he tied them together with some traditional, yet unconventional background and "trinket" type sleeving. The black widow is on the ball of my wrist. As a gardener, I frequently come into contact with black widows and I admire and fear them. The skull is directly on my elbow. He added ladybugs walking around on my Black Flag bars and other pieces he has previously finished. He also wrapped a script piece of my son's name on my shoulder. All of it lightly and vaguely sketched out in pen on the spot.

http://instagram.com/p/Pnjfg9EWAo/
 
#6
fmoore200 said:
Haha.. I actually don't have any tattoos. I used to want to get a to scale tattoo of my heart on my chest but never did..
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That would be a rad tattoo. If I had gotten my first one on my chest, I would have given up after 30 seconds and never gone back.

dmonroe said:
Love it. Hoping to get my next one in the next week or so.
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Where is your bass tattoo? I think I am going to get a portrait of my main bass on my left wrist. Do people ask you what your bass clef means? I assume most people think mine is either a gang sign or a symbol for a foreign currency.
 
#7
I love the ladybugs.

My right arm is about one more big piece away from being pretty much a half-sleeve. I've been thinking of ways to fill in the space afterwards and bring it all together. I'd like to have gotten an integrated sleeve at one point; but both of my arms have independent pieces on them, so too late for that. *lol*
 
#10
LiquidMidnight said:
I love the ladybugs.

My right arm is about one more big piece away from being pretty much a half-sleeve. I've been thinking of ways to fill in the space afterwards and bring it all together. I'd like to have gotten an integrated sleeve at one point; but both of my arms have independent pieces on them, so too late for that. *lol*
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I hear you... I had considered going for traditional Japanese style full sleeves, but my tattoo heroes are all sailors and thugs, so I went the old school American route.
 
#13
nortonrider said:
If your heros are sailors and thugs, why did you get bugs tattooed on you?
I don't get the connection.

except if maybe the tattoo artist misheard you and thought that you said
"sailors and bugs" instead of thugs.
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I thought that sprinkling in some ladybugs might create a nice contrast for all the skulls and spiders and whatnot. My tattoo inspirations might be sailors and thugs, but I like the fact that up-close, my sleeves aren't as hard as they might seem. Little kids love them.
 

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