Sew You Want a Cool Tattoo? Check This One out from Vicky...

I met Vicky back in August outside of Penn Station and marveled about the colorful vibrancy of this beautiful tattoo:

Vicky explained that she is a seamstress for a new company called Cupcake Provocateur. Check out their site, it's pretty cool. Vicky's boss, Cynthia, is the brainchild behind the business, designing all of the aprons and other housewares, as well as making the cupcakes. There are several tattoo-inspired apron designs on their site, including this one, which would make a great holiday gift, no?

But back to the tattoo, Vicky hopes to grow this tattoo into a half-sleeve, and it started out as a design that she had Angelique Houtkamp design for her. "It wasn't drawn exactly the way I wanted it," Vicky explained, so she took it to Sunday Dawne-Marie at Skinflower Cosmic Arts in Phoenecia, New York and, she continued, "Sunday went with my basic idea, an antique sewing machine in a cameo, and re-drew and re-designed the entire thing."

I am most familiar with Sunday's work at Lark Tattoo on the poet Adam Deutsch.

Thanks to Vicky for sharing her amazing tattoo with us here on Tattoosday! We look forward to seeing the sleeve grow in the future!

Where is The Best Tribal Tattoo Design

Tribal tattoo designs are usually the broadly wanted for tats. A tribal tattoo design generally ignite curiosity of the person since it is generally tough to classify when the style is straightforward or even elaborate since the daring solid lines talk much more for itself. A tribe skin image style is generally put on to represent belongingness or even additional individual factors.

A tribal tattoo design is actually chosen through people for a number of causes. A few tribes utilized these types of tats to symbolize placement as well as accomplishments, a few for religious, enchanting or even relationship traditions. For other people, it's accustomed to find a family lineage and therefore are directed at as soon as adolescence like a tag in inviting these to the culture.

Every tribe may well signify a particular history and also was adopted in a different way through tribes and ethnicities. Native Americans put them on in order to signify lifestyle as well as values; Polynesians put it on for custom, ideals, or even faith; Hawaiians put on a tribe designs to recognize their own group from the others inside the culture or even occasionally for safety or actually grieving.

A tribe skin image might be influenced and embellished along with animal sketches to represent various connotations. The significance varies with respect to the importance from the animal to some tribe. A bear might imply best of luck, a butterfly might point to growing old of the spirit although an eagle might represent religious progress.

Using a tribal tattoo design isn't usually for adornment or even fine art. In a few ethnicities, using a skin image can be a procedure to find out the way the individual can manage additional conditions in everyday life. In certain tribes for instance, ladies that cannot endure pain throughout needling might point to the woman's inability to take care of pain throughout giving birth.

A tribal design generally represents the group that a person belong. It's already been accurate for a lot of ages because tribes rely on them in order to tag the people of the group. At the moment occasions, this is often associated with gangs as well as fraternities that make use of tats to find out who they may be and also the group they participate in.

There are numerous of factors why a person might want to possess a tribal tattoo design on the human body. A tribe skin image style is better put on if it retains a significance or perhaps a tale therefore to really make it various as well as distinctive from anyone else's. Therefore next time you may wish to possess skin image, try to locate a importance or perhaps a tale at the rear of it will likely be much more significant when designated on your own body.

by Amy Jones 

Woody Woodpecker Tattoos

Woody Woodpecker is another one of those legendary and highly beloved animated cartoon characters, that will surely remain in our hearts and minds forever.

Feast your eyes on this small collection of fabulous Woody Woodpecker tattoo ideas.

Playing golf in checkered pants tattoo idea.

Puffing on cigar while looking upset.

Classic portrait of the animated cartoon character.

Jackie's Vintage Postcard

I caught up to Jackie after she passed me in Penn Station and I was delighted when she agreed to share her tattoo with us:

It's a truly remarkable piece, and I was thrilled to hear it was tattooed by the amazingly talented Amanda Wachob at Dare Devil Tattoo in New York City. She is well-known for an amazing eye for detail for tattoos that appear as if they were just painted on. I mean, look at this delicate touch on the back side of the piece:

Jackie explained that the tattoo is inspired by art in a book of vintage, early 1900's postcards that she found from Pleiades Press. She credited S. Solomko as the artist who created the original piece which inspired this tattoo.

She loved the vintage appearance of the original and Asked Amanda to recreate that feel.

She also loves, from an artistic perspective, the female form, and the sensuality of the peacock feathers fanning out at the bottom of the tattoo.

 

Again, I can't help but marvel at Amanda's artistry and how she paints on a tattoo:

Thanks again to Jackie for sharing her amazing tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Sandra's Cherry Blossoms

I met Sandra at the local laundromat at the end of August and she shared this lovely tattoo on her upper right arm:

There are two elements to this design, the cherry blossoms and the quote. The cherry blossoms were inked after her father was initially diagnosed with cancer. The quote was added when Sandra decided to move to New York from Oregon.

Reading "When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme...", this quote is from the film Pinocchio, in the song "When You Wish Upon a Star".

The tattoo was done by Dragon at Star Tattoo, in Portland, Oregon.

Thanks to Sandra for sharing her lovely tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!


Here's a little bonus:

Frank's Anvil

When someone is "not sure" how many tattoos they have, the one they do offer up can seem a bit random.

Take Frank, for example, who volunteered this anvil for us here at Tattoosday:

Why an anvil? "I'm a big Looney Tunes fan," he told me. The anvil, falling from great heights, is often a cartoon catalyst for one of those big expanding bumps on the head of say, Wile E. Coyote, for example. Thus the name on the anvil, ACME, which was said coyote's chief supplier of items designed to aid in the capture of the Roadrunner.

This particular piece was inked by Jae Connor at Electric Lotus Tattoo in Boonton, New Jersey. Work from Electric Lotus has appeared previously on Tattoosday here.

Thanks to Frank for sharing this nostalgic tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

The Queen of Clams

One year ago today, I posted about meeting a couple of Kansas City burlesque performers outside of Penn Station (recalled here).

Since then, I had the pleasure of meeting another local performer, Legs Malone, and documenting one of her tattoos here.

Coincidentally, I am sharing here today, a tattoo on the ankle of one Miss Clams Casino.

It would be one thing if I was catching these performers in their natural habitats of burlesque shows, but my encounter with Clams was so fleeting, I was fortunate enough to snap a photo and take her card.

A brief ride on the F train (two stops only) afforded me enough time to spot a tattoo above her ankle, introduce myself and take a picture before necessity required I transfer to the R train.

So, here's the tattoo that so intrigued me:

As I mentioned previously, I barely had time to snap a photo, let alone get the story behind this cool tattoo. Thankfully, Miss Clams Casino was generous enough to send me the story at a later date:

"Every year I go to the Burlesque Hall of Fame weekend in Las Vegas and play in the official Burlesque Hall of Fame Poker Tournament. I enjoy poker, but I know that I'm probably not going to win, so I like setting little goals for the game with fabulous rewards...in 2009 I decided that if I won a hand with a pair of Queens I would get a tattoo to mark the occasion. Long story short, a few hands in I was dealt a pair of Queens and won the only hand I won that tournament. A few months later, my friend Scarlet Sinclair was getting started as a tattoo artist and was looking for willing guinea pigs. I told her the story and that I'd like some ink involving Queens and hearts and she came up with this incredible design. I went to see her at Matt's Tribal Dragon Tattoo in Bethpage, NY and was her 7th tattoo ever. She's incredible and I love the queen living on my ankle."

Thanks to Miss Clams Casino for sharing her tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Please feel free to check her out on these sites:

http://www.MissClamsCasino.com
http://www.GameShowSpeakeasy.com
http://www.casinoofortunecookie.com
http://www.burlesqueonthegogo.com