"Live to Ride"

Man, this guy sure had stories about motorcycle accidents. He was fun to talk to and spends most of each year professionally racing on huge bike tracks. This is his right arm; the left will have "Ride to Live" on it some day.

Jennifer Cover-up

This is a cover-up from an ex-wife's name on a man's arm. It didn't work out, so it needed to be fixed.

The man was told by another shop that he would have to turn the shape into a huge black mark somehow in order to hide what was originally there. I told him I could do a few more things than that and he was hooked. He knew he wanted an exclamation mark, so I created one out of broken glass. You can still see "Jennifer" if you look carefully, but if you weren't aware of it being there, you'd probably not notice it at all.

I actually forgot to take a before picture so here's the highlight.

Apple

A pretty cool story to go with this one. The client took this image from the albums created for The Beatles, but turned from green to orange. The reason she changed the color was to symbolize a family member of hers whom was a model for a character on Snow White with Walt Disney. Pretty awesome story.

The details were difficult, but I like the effect when it has. The guys told me this would take 3-4 hours, but the client was only there for 2 total.

Wow... the Christmas season is awful for tattoos apparently. I hope that after people are spending money on others, they are once again able to go back to the art of bodily expression. This girl came to the shop, obviously, but things have been slower since about Thanksgiving.