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Do you typically shave that part of your body, and if so, how does it react? I'd say if you know it is going to be an issue, you can always ask what the artist would prefer. If you have a routine that you know will work better than a dry shave at the shop you might be better of doing it at home.

I just started getting tattooed in November, and I want to get a few more small tattoos before I start on this project. I think it will be my biggest piece, and I'll have to fit it in to the budget with some upcoming travel plans. We're doing trips to SD and Chicago this year, and then to the Grand Canyon in 2017. The big tattoo might be next fall's project. I'd just love to have Alice Carrier do it. She's not doing multi-session work on travelers and PDX is just so far from here.

A little video of this placement on a lady arm. Instagram Adding the little shoulder cap is nice.

...but that's what I doooooooo! It's easier to kick it around here with tattooed people. It isn't like, a serious stress in my real life, but it is fun to talk about on the internet. Look how many pretty lady arms we got out of it :D

The bird on my left leg is just a tattoo sitting on my leg. The botanical on my right leg twists around my ankle bone and makes a very graceful little start towards the top of my foot. I know that gender adjectives are clunky, but honestly, the first thing I said when I sat up and saw it colored was, "Oh, it's so girly!" I love both of them, but I have a clear example of the aesthetic difference on my own body. I am not sure if a composed half sleeve is the correct place for this tattoo. I know the shape of the item I want tattooed fits that part of the body, but I don't know if the shape fits a woman's body. I have a feeling that a hard cut off at the elbow is less flowing than I'd like for it to be, but I know that's where the artist makes all the difference. There are a lot of pictures of tattoos that don't even register if the wearer is male or female, and lots of suggestive pictures of tattooed girls. I love seeing the pieces in this thread. You're all "real people" and you're posting real world images instead of magazine shoots. I won't be seeing many upper arms in person until about May. We're all in sweaters right now.

Well... :cool: The book has had several awesome covers. Google Image Search Images that invoke cycles, renewal, moving on, regeneration - clocks, tides, waves, Phoenix, spirals, starfish, paths / roads...

I really was thinking of it as an aesthetic question. Because I have a womanly figure, I know that boxy shirts are not flattering on me. I wear them when it isn't important, but if I wanted to 'put my best foot forward', I'd pick something more fitted. That's as much mechanical as psychological. Curved clothes suit my curved body better than straight ones.

I process small ones, like mice squirrels and rabbits here at home. They're small enough to boil and then use peroxide, and they don't smell when they're fresh. I'd not take on anything long dead or bigger than the stovetop at home. That bear is still a little waxy feeling. I have another that is dry. I think it must have been in the sun. I find naturally cleaned skulls sometimes on the farm or hikes. If they're clean enough to carry, I'll bring them home, but I don't really need anymore whitetails or raccoons, so I usually leave them these days. I do hunt, but I've not been hunting for any new or interesting species in a long time. I'd like to have an elk skull with the ivory intact, so maybe we'll get lucky the next time we head to Colorado. I'd send something that big off to someone with beatles.

Fair enough :D

"Artsy iPad shots" ;) Black bear Gray wolf Mountain lion Opossum, muskrat, skunk, mouse, vole

Yeah, but walls don't have feelings. If customer service is honestly a hindrance to your process, start blasting walls or engraving Naugahyde or baking clay and artistically breaking it. You may have to art, but you don't have to art on skin is all I'm saying. :D

I continue to not fully get this. If you want total artistic control, don't art on human skin. There are lots of inanimate media. There aren't any tattoos I want that badly.

I don't like the big-eyed, silly colored hybrid animals. I've never cared for Ed Roth's art for the same reason. I do not mind the vast expansion of the tattoo color palette. I like color!

I teach a class for 11 - 18 year old olds. That one is an elk, but whitetails were today too. This is the bulkiest class to teach. The back of the wagon was packed full of various antlers.

Super awesome!

My first Wildlife ID class of the year was today. I got to play with my skulks and skins. Good day!

A googah is just a decoration :) I'm not sure if Japanese is my style, but I know they work with the body and I'm sure that would not turn out masculine on a woman's body. A horse skull is a long, thin shape. It would make a cool tattoo by itself, no doubt, but I think it needs something - flowers, wind bars, you know, googahs to make it into a full wrap "sleeve" tattoo. I was thinking that I could put a horse on the inside of my arm. I've had several over the years, so I could provide pictures of mine, but I've loved the illustrations in the Marguerite Henry books since I was a kid too. Oh, and Zenyatta, and many trips to Lexington, and The Black Stallion... Horse crazy little girls never really get over it. @TrixieFaux those are lovely! I really like both of them, but the raven is my favorite part. I do like the Lars Uwe tattoos. They are more Nouveau, but the color palette is super!

I'd like to get a significant piece including a horse skull, something like Marguerite Henry/Wesley Dennis horse painting or pencil drawing, and maybe some deco-ish googahs. The shape of a horse skull certainly lends itself to a half sleeve. I look at a lot of tattoos, and I seem to see a lot of bits and pieces and shoulder pieces, but not as many cohesive "sleeve" pieces. Is it "too masculine"? Show me some lady arms, please?

I love them so much :o

Pretty maple leaves. Do you know who did them?

Yeah, the eagle is ok, but FRECKLES! :cool:

Well, nebulas and space stuff made me think of Andres Acosta. Instagram But there are so many people in that part of Texas!

No way, read Slaughterhouse Five.

Vonnegut is rich with tattoo ideas, including his own illustrations. I got to see him speak, and spoke with him briefly after the presentation. It was awesome!

The animated Tale of the Three Brothers has a creepy, skeletal, wispy death.