Do you have a tattoo?

[Gretchen]

Couple of quick pics of my super stocky leg and fat cankles







Waiting until beginning of June session to heal and will add some white and darker tail feathers, quills, touch up the red sun and a few other bits of shading etc. then will draw out back/inner thigh and back of knee and re-start Sept/Oct.

[swanseaboydan]

Very impressive Gretchen

[smithyithy]

Very nice that, nice bold colours

[ben5575]

That looks fantastic

[Gretchen]

Latest addition. Graffiti portrait of the painting Self Portrait Dedicated to Dr Eloesser on the side of my stout left leg.

[Gretchen]

Filling all the gaps. Had a rose and nautical star added to my hand at the weekend along with some more colour to my right leg. Will have background added to hand at some point.
I have a session booked this afternoon will be my last until Winter (unless a cancellation with certain artists comes along )

[marksx]

How many hours have you spent being inked this year Gretchen?

[Buttery Ken]

Gretchen said:

Filling all the gaps. Had a rose and nautical star added to my hand at the weekend along with some more colour to my right leg. Will have background added to hand at some point.
I have a session booked this afternoon will be my last until Winter (unless a cancellation with certain artists comes along )

You've got some really cool stuff

Hard to state this without sounding pervy but it would be good to see it all collectively

[ZedLeg]

I'm thinking about getting my old finger tattoos blasted over with a hand tattoo from this person.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs9YkwsLWX4/?hl=en

[Gretchen]

marksx said:

How many hours have you spent being inked this year Gretchen?

Around 30 hours by the end of today. Longest sitting was approx six hours.

Buttery Ken said:

You've got some really cool stuff

Hard to state this without sounding pervy but it would be good to see it all collectively

Thanks. I feel like I’m the only one posting! Will see what I can do. In a pervy way

ZedLeg said:

I'm thinking about getting my old finger tattoos blasted over with a hand tattoo from this person.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs9YkwsLWX4/?hl=en

I like this stuff. If you’ve been a BB follower you’ll already probably be familiar but if not have a look at

https://instagram.com/skezytattoo?igshid=NTc4MTIwN...

https://instagram.com/paul_ginge_tattoos?igshid=NT...

And

https://instagram.com/brutalblackproject?igshid=NT...

Check the hashtag brutalblack on IG.

[ZedLeg]

I hadn't seen that first person before.

I'm a big fan of this guy too.

https://www.instagram.com/jamie.christ/?hl=en

[Chris77]

After getting my right hand done it made my left feel very bare 🤣🤣🤣 so had this done by Phil Wilkinson






And after talking with Phil I’m going to be getting my arm re worked by him 😎 (just need to finish my right arm first 🤪)

[Swampy1982]

Still red and angry. One more piece to add to the crow and this to finish lower leg.

[Swampy1982]

Chris77 said:

After getting my right hand done it made my left feel very bare ?????? so had this done by Phil Wilkinson






And after talking with Phil I’m going to be getting my arm re worked by him ?? (just need to finish my right arm first ??)

Really like that a lot, not my personal style but it looks brilliant.

Any wider shots of it in context with your sleeve?

[ZedLeg]

Aye, it's rare to see a hand rose that doesn't just look like a big bruise. That looks good.

[Gretchen]

Love that.

So many different styles of Rose, I’ve decided to have delicate water colour/pastels for a chest piece with Roses. Yet to book it as still deciding on exactly on the main theme (Swan) and need to make sure I’ve the time off (would like to complete in two days) and the funds!

I promised I wasn’t having anything past end of May until Autumn/Winter. I’ve already failed and was in again Tuesday this week having behind my right ear done. The fresh ink in this thread really doesn’t help.

[g3org3y]

Swampy1982 said:

Still red and angry. One more piece to add to the crow and this to finish lower leg.

Any underlying story to this? Sparta inspired?

[smithyithy]

Lovely hand rose. It's a simple design but so easily done poorly (you see some really cheaply done black / grey ones that just look like cabbages...) but that's really clean, very nice style

[Swampy1982]

g3org3y said:

Any underlying story to this? Sparta inspired?

Nah, nothing that deep. Although the circular pattern in white on the shield has a meaning to me but not one for sharing.

[Its Just Adz]

A bit more progress on my coverup yesterday.
It's proving a really difficult cover and fighting all the way, but almost there! Gonna be so pleased when it's done.