I prefer going to someone who and who’s work I like. It’s not as if I’m having any major technically demanding Bio-Mechanical type work done. Most of the stuff I want is fairly straightforward. I also trust this guy to tell me if he can’t do anything.
Something just occurred to me about your gecko.
Which direction will it face?
And will the tail curl around one of your toes or around your ankle?
AH, Now I understand you better.
I know exactly where I want it.
I want the tail to go across the bottom of my toes (or rather, just below them). It’ll be on my left foot and will be up the left side of my foot about the same length as the tail going along beneath my toes.
And I want it to be slim rather than plump.
Cathy
Do you know when you’re having it done and (more importantly) when we’ll get to see pics of it?
I think about the 17th, which is the next time I will be at home on a week day, and is reasonably close to my birthday. I’ve also just died my hair purple. D’you think I’m reacting?
Cathy
Probably, and it’s a good thing.
Only dead people don’t react.
More people should scare their kids.
I don’t know about scaring the kids. My daughter dyed my hair and is buying me the tattoo. I don’t know if I’ll be able to wear sandals at my parents’ house again.
Cathy
The avatar is the gecko. I have an appointement to be tattooed on friday. Oo, I’m excited.
Cathy
Pictures, we want pictures.
I just spent the weekend at the ‘Ink on the Rocks’ tattoo convention in Umhlanga Rocks north of Durban.
And no, I couldn’t help myself.
The design is from here.
Future plans include getting their hair done in black and dresses in white and adding colour to the triangles hanging from their hair.
There are a couple of lines that need to be added in some of the figures.
I’m also toying with the idea of adding some parchment behind the egyptian figures and having that morph into a stone backround for the Toltec temple carving.
Mmm, only two pics per post.
Nice to see a 4,000 year old juggling reference getting a semi-permanent re-reference. Good luck with the color and parchment additions.
Sure hope we get to pass clubs sometime in this life.
Wow. Cool!
Cathy
Congrats!
What a cute little fella!
Very original and well done. (I like the name, too!)
to think all thoes figures juggling but not one of them on a uni. 
I have been recently planning my next tattoo I have a feeling that it’s going to be a big one (as if the shield on my arm wasnt big enough)
Ive been playing with the idea of having vines sprawl out and up my shoulder from my first tattoo, then transitioning to silouettes of birds flying to break up the pattern of things.
The hard part for me is working with the negitive space I know I dont want a solid tattoo covering my whole shoulder. so I would like it if the space between things added to the overall design and wasnt just blank canvas that I’ll try to fill later.
Any ideas?
Great job on the detail of the tail wrapping around your toe cathy I think it adds a nice personalized touch to your design that you dont see too often.
Nice, Cathy. Enjoy it.
Oooh, very nice!
The toe-wrap tail detail is indeed something special.
Rather character-building going up and down the sides of the toe?
How long did the whole procedure take?
And (if you don’t mind me asking, I’m curious about comparative costs of tattoos) how much did that cost you?
In SA I would guess that would cost you roughly the equivalent of 150 cans of Coke.
Yeah, the status of the wheel in 2000BC is not entirely clear just yet and I was loathe to improvise as I would probably have gotten the wrong crank-length and never heard the end of it…
Speaking of which, do you have a recent pic of that shield?
As I recall, the pics you posted originally still had the bronze ‘colouring’ (read: ink mixed with blood).
Almost Escher-esque-y?
It sounds like a stunning idea.
Don’t even ask. I’ ve been known to not shut up.
Oops. Too late.
Start dating an art major/graphic designer/sketch artist. You’ll probably need to have a whole bunch of design drawn up before you’ll see on the paper what you have in your head and if you’re dating the artist, it’s a lot cheaper. Also start drawing it yourself, you may not have considered yourself as ‘artistic’ before (whatever that means) but you will probably surprise yourself. You may also want to experiment with having the actual design drawn on you. That’ll show you exactly how it will look on your shoulder and once there, you can start working at getting the design back to a 2D version you can take to Don.
You can also take him pics of the drawn-on version.
And if you’re dating the artist, you might as well get the drawings done in chocolate bodypaint.
Thanks
It cost £70. So about the same - roughly 150 cans of Coke. And it took just under an hour.
Cathy
Does the tattoo actually go under your toe? Can we see the bottom of your foot?
Billy
