Category Archives: tattoos

Final photos, left sleeve

Written by ray on June 6, 2010 — 3 Comments

We mostly finished up my left sleeve in 2008, just a couple of hours of touch-up left which I am getting done next month, but Chris figured we should just take the official photos now. The Celtic cross is my first tattoo, by Freddy Corbin in 1989. The rest of the sleeve and the touch-up [...]

HNT: My second half-sleeve, in progress

Written by ray on September 27, 2007 — 18 Comments

I started my second half-sleeve tattoo back around Mardi Gras, and so far I’ve got about 18 hours of ink invested over two weekend trips to Austin. These are the first pics I’ve posted. The theme of this one is an homage to my maternal grandmother, with cardinals flying around the existing Celtic cross tattoo [...]

Pain vacation

Written by ray on February 27, 2007 — 8 Comments

I just got back from a four-day weekend back in Austin, having Chris Trevino put the first eight hours worth of ink on my other sleeve. This one is cardinals, and will work around the existing celtic cross that Freddy Corbin did for me many years ago. I’ll have pictures up by Thursday, hopefully. I [...]

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Final tattoo photos

Written by ray on August 14, 2006 — 9 Comments

One of the last things I did before I left Austin was to finally get my tattoo finished. I was supposed to get it wrapped up on August 30 of last year, but, well, something came up. You may have read about it in the papers. Chris Trevino of Perfection Tattoo did the design and [...]

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Tattoo update: Chris Trevino is The Man

Written by ray on August 21, 2005 — 19 Comments

I got more work done on the tattoo last night. Almost 3 hours without a break, but it wasn’t so bad, really. I think I must be getting used to it. These pictures show the color he added to the flowers last time, plus last night’s work where he darkened the swan and background and [...]

Tattoo progress

Written by ray on July 14, 2005 — 2 Comments

I got work done on Monday adding actual color to the tattoo, instead of just the black and grey that’s gone on it up til now. I’ll post current pictures when it’s stopped peeling, but these pictures here were taken before the most recent session, and are the first pictures to show the black swan [...]

Tattoo update: Background is finished

Written by ray on April 26, 2005 — 11 Comments

I’ve had four sessions filling in the water and sky, so the background is pretty much done. Next appointment is in May, when he’ll start coloring in the swan. These pictures were taken an hour after I got home from getting the chest stuff done, so that part is pretty raw, but I like how [...]

Daylight Savings

Written by ray on April 4, 2005 — 2 Comments

Most of my life, on the Monday after we changed the clocks in the spring I’d hear people complain about how tired they were in the morning, how their body hadn’t adjusted yet, how they should still be in bed. And I always thought “what a bunch of wusses””. It’s only an hour, and you [...]

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Inside arm view

Written by ray on February 13, 2005 — 5 Comments

Here’s the inside of my arm and my chest, which combined were the most painful things I’ve ever felt, apart from the time I broke my elbow. At the bottom of my arm you can see one of the lilies. The coloring of the outline is different because that one will be partially underwater when [...]

DAMN, that hurt!

Written by ray on February 13, 2005 — 5 Comments

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. [...]