Inked.

It feels like a big jump to go from having tattoos that aren’t normally visible (torso and leg) to something visible in short sleeves. 

Mr Gnome, puffy and red but now featuring color. It’s my first color piece and now I’ve got the bug and want more.

Placement. Featuring silly derby shorts.

The girl I’ve been hanging out with lately, an aspiring tattoo artist, drew this on me tonight with prismacolor markers. I kind of want it as an actual tattoo immediately. So pretty.

In other news, here’s the drawing my tattoo artist sent me that he did based on my original request for my first tattoo. I really love it!

I’m going to send him a couple of pictures of knitting needles and knitting and have him work a little more on the knitting part to make it a little more realistic. I’m also not sure about the flower thing behind it so I’ll have him rework that too. I might have him do some toadstools (traditional gnome imagery) with it instead.

(I’m kind of a perfectionist with my designs and I always feel like a dick asking artists re-do things, but, oh well.) 

but all in all I’m really excited to get it. Unfortunately I won’t be able to get it until I get a job and have some disposable income. But I have some job prospects on the horizon, so hopefully soon.

Oh my god oh my god!

I’ve blogged recently about wanting a gnome tattoo and a knitting tattoo, and I recently considered combining them.

Definitely going to show this to my artist and see if he can put his own spin on this.

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the-madame-hatter:

Amanda Wachob has done something few artists have dared to do - ventured from cloth to skin with her impressive paint-splattered tattoo art. The New York-born artist has done some spectacularly innovative tattoos that display colorful brushstrokes and abstract paint-splatters.

While Wachob also does more traditional tattoos, it is her eccentric paint-like tats that put her at the forefront of tattoo trends.

Oh my god. I would kill to have her tattoo me. Those are gorgeous.

Ah what I would give to be tattooed by Amanda Wachob! Her regular tattoos are beautiful and fabulous too.

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Liz got her first tattoo today. It looks so awesome! By the same artist that did mine, Joshua Chatwin at Lucky Rabbit Tattoos in Muncie.

While we were there, I got my most recent one touched up, which is all the pain of re-doing a rib tattoo and none of the fun of a new image.

fuckyeahtattoos:

by speck osterhout at mastermind ink chicago

I absolutely cannot handle this tattoo, meaning, I love it. The Monster at the End of this book was an icon of my childhood. The surprise at the end (I won’t spoil it for you…) got me every. single. time.

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