Another Beautiful Tattoo

I got another lovely tattoo on Wednesday, this one based on an old woodcut illustration from a fairy tale. This beautiful tattoo took almost five hours to complete (and yes, I'm boasting here, because several tattoo artists in the shop came by to compliment me on being able to sit through five hours of tattooing, especially with all that shading).

 

Thank you to my friend Sofiya for keeping me company all afternoon and getting these great "in process" photos.

 



Putting on the stencil

 



Getting started



 
 

 

The pictures don't do it justice, the details are even nicer in person.

 

This gorgeous work was done by my wonderful tattoo artist, Heather at DermagraphInk.  If you are in the L.A. area, I cannot recommend her highly enough. She also did my lovely knotted rope and pumpkin tattoos, and her two partners did beautiful tattoos for Dev, Gillian, and Sofiya, too.