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February 13, 2005
DAMN, that hurt!
I finally had my first tattoo session last night with Chris Trevino. I can't say enough nice things about this guy.
We had only talked for a few minutes last summer about what I wanted, but he remembered everything, and had a really firm idea in his head of how he wanted it to look. He spent about 90 minutes drawing the design freehand on my arm with markers, then two hours inking it in. I got two short breaks at the 30 minute and 90 minute marks.
I had forgotten how much this hurts, and I had no idea how much the inside of the arm or the pectoral muscles could hurt. I'm a little nervous now because I have a four hour session booked Thursday to start on the shading, and I'm not really sure I'm up to it unless I can find some good drugs (anybody? anybody? Bueller?).
Anyway, it's beautiful, I love it. Two pictures here. This one shows the swan, wings furled like it's taking off, with that frothy Japanese-style water on the bottom. The pink and purple stuff is not my skin, it's mostly magic marker from his initial sketch that I haven't managed to wash off yet.
Posted by ray at February 13, 2005 7:10 AM | Permalink
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Beautiful. I can't wait to see the color.
Yeah, it hurts. The coloring isn't as bad though. But yeah, I know exactly how much that hurts.
"Ow! Why am I doing this? I hate this!"
Posted by: Karl Elvis at February 13, 2005 7:54 AM
Gorgeous, Ray. And yeah, the inside/underside of the arm stuff on my armband was WAY more painful than any other part. The coloring/shading was more annoying than really painful, but the outlining in the underside of the arm felt like a razor blade being drawn sowly and precisely across my skin.
Mmmmm. I really need to get more ink.
Posted by: Gregg P. at February 13, 2005 8:10 AM
Oh! Ray, you're a wonderful water garden!
Can I take a swim?
Posted by: Circe at February 13, 2005 9:50 AM
Greg, it's not a razor blade. Razor blades are so sharp they don't really hurt. Trust me, I've had tons of contact with razor blades.
It's a duller object; an old, rusty razor blade, or a sharp pin. Annoying as hell, just pisses you off.
Posted by: Karl Elvis at February 13, 2005 12:07 PM
looks amazing Ray.
Posted by: Melanie at February 20, 2005 12:35 AM
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