Attack of the Giant Sugar Skull

She originally wanted Tinkerbell but came in with this idea instead.

2010

3 from this week

Black and grey peacock

Vegas


Bacchus
Michelangelo Caravaggio

2010

Mrs. Mojo Rising

The customer's grandmother sitting on top of a park bench, 1942.

Jim Morrison's throat is in the upper right.

Know Your Rights

Internment Camp Buddha

2010

The original art for this tattoo was made of cut paper by the customer's great grandfather, one of more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans who's rights and property were taken by our federal government.

Executive Order 9066 from Feb. 1942 allowed military commanders to declare California, Oregon and Washington 'exclusion zones'. With a little help from the Census Bureau, Japanese-Americans were 'excluded' from the west coast and placed into desert prison camps for the remainder of the war.

The tattoo is a negative version of the original design but is otherwise unchanged.

Harley-Schwinn Reversable

Pin-up girl posed on a 1930 Harley-Schwinn Reversable, a motorcyle that could be turned around and ridden as a bicycle. Only a few were made.

The tattoo was finished in one 6 hour session.

2010