My canvas so far..

At the moment I have my chest tattooed and and currently working towards finishing my left sleeve. Eventually I do want to be virtually covered from the throat down but I guess its the age old saying of patience is a virtue. I definately dont want to rush my tattoos because I am a bit of a snob when it comes to which artists I like etc. I also have a million ideas and designs for various tattoos over my body, so I really want to make sure that they are definately what I will want when I'm old and saggy!

Chest

This is the first tattoo I got done, if i remember correctly it took around 7 or 8 hours to completely finish. It was pretty horrible. After long deliberation with my friend Ashleigh (who was the tattooist) we decided to go ahead with it. Originally I was literally just going to have the script, but I then thought it might look a bit boring so we decided to add the roses in, which luckily turned out to be absolutely amazing. Ashleigh decided to do the roses in a realistic style with no black outline. By doing this I think they look much more perfect, however it did take so much longer and as a result more painful. Worth it...I think so.








Sleeve In progress

My next project was my left arm. Seeing as I have an unhealthy obsession with sailor influenced traditional designs, I thought there would be no better design than a full sleeve including iconic sailor imagery such as; an eagle, an anchor, a sinking ship, a mermaid, a lighthouse. Basically anything and everything sailor based. I went in to Haunted Tattoo on Holloway road in London, and the man for the job was Andreas. He is amazing at anything oldschool when it comes to tattoos. His linework is ridiculously good and although slightly painful I really think i couldn't have chosen anyone better to do my sleeve. I ended up going all the way to Brighton Tattoo convention to start the shading on my sleeve. When I actually have any spare pennies I am going to go and get the rest of it all finished.