Roses are red (and yellow)

Bit more progress on Duncan's chest.  Managed to get the roses all shaded in a couple of hours,  The wings are healing nicely and the cover up seems to have worked really well.  Cant wait to get more done on this but I'm going to have to wait a little while....christmas is expensive, tattoos can wait!

One chest down

So...I have finished one of the chest pieces I have been working on.  Its been lots of fun (for me anyway, probably not for the guy having it!!)  and both I and the recipient of the piece are really happy with the finished tattoo.  Im really pleased with the colour density in this piece, it really glows.  The picture shows it all 100% healed apart from the blue background.  There's obviously things I might do differently next time I approach a piece like this, but that is what my apprenticeship is about.  I've been able to give someone a better tattoo than they ever imagined and also learn some things in the process, job done

Paul sat like an absolute trooper and was a pleasure to tattoo.  Fingers crossed he'll be back fro some more work

No heart no hurt

Soooo.. here's another piece I've started this week.  Having had my chest tattooed I really felt for this guy, he sat like a trooper but the odd involuntary shakes and twitches were all too familiar to me, it made me realise what a hard time Jade had watching me sit for 8 hours in the very same state! I got the outline done and he'd had enough so we called it a day. Can't wait to get started on the colour though.  I have a feeling this one's going to shine!  Apologies for he picture quality, i had to snap a quick one as he was in no state to stand around and pose.