Tat talk

Alphatude, a deviant artist and fellow plurker, kindly shared this tattoo art site with me when the topic of tattoos came up (nice picture of his own on his site). By the way: awesome pieces Alphatude!

Manu tattoo (Wellington, NZ) looks awesome. Too bad it's so far away. Love the cherry tree on the Asian tat page. The background fogged out branches are a nuance I've never seen in tat art (I have limited experience though). It's really impressive.

hmm. Perhaps what I'm really after might be some shadowing of my body parts, maybe something to add definition to my arms and legs to make me appear slimmed and toned? I wonder how fast they would throw me out if I went in and asked for something "Slimming".

I've been wanting to fill in the huge amount of white space on me for a long time now. I finally found the gumption to kick it off --and more importantly I found a place to do it. Although, I was originally going to go for the place around the corner from me (Incognito), but instead happened along Shogun Tattoo Art when wandering home (see earlier blog).

I managed to make an appointment with Charles Belnavis. I love the seascapes he does. I was incredibly impressed with the octopi and kelp forests. I've signed up to get some kelp for my turtle. I've been collecting images for other tats too, both for my own seascape and for the other leg, which I'm thinking to dedicate to pretty flowers.

Send me images if you have them. Right now, I'm looking for cool salt water creatures, schooling fish and cephalopods. Found some great nudibranch images posted by National Geographic, but not quite sure how they would come out in artist renderings...