Blessings Going out to all my Homies

This Virgin of Guadalupe B&G lower leg piece has taken 9 hours so far- there is an hour or so worth of shading + white highlights to go. Ya Catholic boy did well to hang in there that
last 4 hour session on Tuesday, just could not do the extra hour or so that was needed to make
this tattoo finito...no shame in that mang.

My artistic aim was to have the Virgin look like a white marble statue and to stand out as much as possible as she is the focus of the piece. The "Blessings" script plus the three stone roses (at the bottom) helped make things pop with their different tones and added more perspective. I like how the different elements have come together to make this religious icon a somewhat unique tattoo.

Only rotaries were used for this piece- Stealth, Bishop and Blitz machines.

BANG!

This pop art style pistol tatt was done in just over 2 hours. The client wanted the piece on his right inner bicep so if he came across the boss in town he could fold up his arms and keep his new gangsta tatt on the down low.  The gun barrel is alot straighter than it looks in the pic, ya boy Josh is just making out that he be in tha gym lol

As I really dig Andy Worhol's art this was a fun piece to ink- the fat black outline gives the tatt a rubber stamp/sticker look and deep red got packed into the flames so they popped out from the gunmetal grey.

The three tattoo machines that starred in the making of this tattoo were: Paolini liner, Juan Puente Liner & a Dragonfly rotary to finish up with the shading.