My Tattoo

My Tattoo was done by Dave at Modern Primitives Tattoo in Providence, RI in May of 1996. It was my first tattoo ever, and still my only one.

Here is my posting to rec.arts.bodyart telling about getting the tattoo.

It was based on an original piece of art by NéNé Thomas called ".44 Magnum". (actually, the ORIGINAL was called "Sig Sauer", but that's another story altogether) The original had the vampyre leaning her head on a skull and holding a smoking gun in her hand. I loved the picture, but the thought of having 2 symbols of death on me really bothered me, so I decided to have the gun removed entirely and the skull replaced with a crystal ball that I found in an article about Tori Amos :-)
Here's the original picture:

my only plans for the future were to have the hair finished to complete an armband. I had it done on October 3rd. Hopefully, I'll have a picture up soon.

And for fun, here is the line drawing that Dave used to create the blackline work.

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