Two for Tattoosday - Dave's Scalpflower and Bethany's Lonely Whale

A couple weeks back, I met Dave and Bethany outside of the Borders Penn Plaza in Manhattan. Both had amazing ink and shared some tattoos with us. Let's start with Dave's "scalpflower":<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIpe-WSSF4c5ALZHs6LyV1Z7Fw5KTeP_NEpMhxxBx2ojIB0Dk3JojcKQaB_etOaVosBT0aVLYkbVZNm59OGjQPnF6E3bUlBAlYPeTGfeWePkHy56FZhGf_cVUgjZO35cBUG49WuLgbW2w/s1600/Scalpflower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIpe-WSSF4c5ALZHs6LyV1Z7Fw5KTeP_NEpMhxxBx2ojIB0Dk3JojcKQaB_etOaVosBT0aVLYkbVZNm59OGjQPnF6E3bUlBAlYPeTGfeWePkHy56FZhGf_cVUgjZO35cBUG49WuLgbW2w/s400/Scalpflower.jpg" width="300" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dave explained that this floral tattoo on his scalp was inked by Mike Adams, who was doing a guest spot at Thicker Than Water in Manhattan. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dave elaborated:</div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"We had talked about some ideas when I saw him [Mike Adams] at the Philadelphia Convention. We showed up [at Thicker than Water] and he just showed me some of the drawings of the tattoos he had recently done.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQGM_5xhWrinrCyO0npO42T3gqHLRBqsP-i7JxKWbqszkvdR7FbGXY4gJBqtfsYPrAaiEu5OSvxUGByBEYAMUaFY5tV7n05RAtr9FkWwEI8ZBuoXdETixCgR8b9GEjuxquAnKHDbPVlVw/s1600/Scalpflower+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQGM_5xhWrinrCyO0npO42T3gqHLRBqsP-i7JxKWbqszkvdR7FbGXY4gJBqtfsYPrAaiEu5OSvxUGByBEYAMUaFY5tV7n05RAtr9FkWwEI8ZBuoXdETixCgR8b9GEjuxquAnKHDbPVlVw/s320/Scalpflower+detail.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He had done another flower on someone else in the past week and I said 'Oh, let's do one of those.' He said, 'Yeah, that's awesome/ Let's do it.' "</div></blockquote>Dave, who is approximately 70% covered in tattoos, had mostly been worked on by Tony Hundahl from Rock of Ages Tattoo in Austin, Texas. Hundahl has done both of Dave's sleeves (including the traditional segment pictured below), his chest, stomach, back, knees and one of his legs.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr8l34aPVIy2mjvMLcHEaG2gE0h0iNcuqLlrztRX82H-iIkJU8FrXGFh9gjMxBqBIH_vbQhl_rctIlshibHIKpuC2nJB8jAPpYbEzc2KrhDUEULQFspqJp10UVKsE03XPqFD3PiK7r2os/s1600/Mom+Dad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr8l34aPVIy2mjvMLcHEaG2gE0h0iNcuqLlrztRX82H-iIkJU8FrXGFh9gjMxBqBIH_vbQhl_rctIlshibHIKpuC2nJB8jAPpYbEzc2KrhDUEULQFspqJp10UVKsE03XPqFD3PiK7r2os/s640/Mom+Dad.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><br /> <br /> Dave added that, since moving to Washington D.C. recently, he started collecting work from other artists in the East.<br /> <br /> Along with Dave, I met Bethany who, shared one of her more recent tattoos, this whale by Deno Jr.:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirA8sTxfpuTs_X7HXzyIv7K6ZoIQxW1ZK56jMqUEGfWYC1aLR_tGQutW_wxzo7AWq0cXwjiUkrW4SBwfycHRxMVmwHrTnjdmQSKqUYJCyGf-kidZzm2C4DohKDoPgmSWbeScr51EdrjUQ/s1600/Whale.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirA8sTxfpuTs_X7HXzyIv7K6ZoIQxW1ZK56jMqUEGfWYC1aLR_tGQutW_wxzo7AWq0cXwjiUkrW4SBwfycHRxMVmwHrTnjdmQSKqUYJCyGf-kidZzm2C4DohKDoPgmSWbeScr51EdrjUQ/s400/Whale.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> Deno Jr. works out of Circus Tattoo in Madrid, Spain, but had recently done a guest spot at Tattoo Paradise in D.C.<br /> <br /> This tattoo is of this lonely whale, whose song is different from any other species, so it is an outcast, and she doesn't have a mate.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>

Two for Tattoosday - Dave's Scalpflower and Bethany's Lonely Whale

A couple weeks back, I met Dave and Bethany outside of the Borders Penn Plaza in Manhattan. Both had amazing ink and shared some tattoos wit...

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Sue Shares a Werewolf by Deno

A couple months back, I ran into a woman during the afternoon rush hour in Penn Station who had this amazing tattoo on her right thigh:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzZX7uiQYoJ9Al08DGGcCNMiI0R8q_Z5P1f62kIm0m7i5B39E-hvfwQ-AaiGZ4GPzXYQN1PjW8IrrHWf4J0tIYABsXlZlOX3Y4-HKIB8lSEnolk0QhIDhdxH6qkqVoT32PKruDIO2mhjM/s1600/deno+werewolf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzZX7uiQYoJ9Al08DGGcCNMiI0R8q_Z5P1f62kIm0m7i5B39E-hvfwQ-AaiGZ4GPzXYQN1PjW8IrrHWf4J0tIYABsXlZlOX3Y4-HKIB8lSEnolk0QhIDhdxH6qkqVoT32PKruDIO2mhjM/s400/deno+werewolf.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><br /> Turns out her name was Sue Jeiven, and she is a tattoo artist at East River Tattoo in Brooklyn. More of Sue's work can be seen in East River's Flickr stream here.<br /> <br /> This was her most recent tattoo (at the time) and was done by Deno, a visiting artist from Spain, who's Circus Tattoo in Madrid is a top-notch shop. The quality of this piece is phenomenal.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk9yFY1sHV85gpb9KFYC7q4hTkSSxGIe_YlvjazIluseW7eZQLqkAuGxPdXVdcOVUoFUSZukB_BZcRHzTX9SpjhktWOaqxVDSLTTQtUs0F-E6ZIBEU_oBLQ89-6k0Kia7NiPbs7L0eQ-I/s1600/deno+werewolf+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk9yFY1sHV85gpb9KFYC7q4hTkSSxGIe_YlvjazIluseW7eZQLqkAuGxPdXVdcOVUoFUSZukB_BZcRHzTX9SpjhktWOaqxVDSLTTQtUs0F-E6ZIBEU_oBLQ89-6k0Kia7NiPbs7L0eQ-I/s400/deno+werewolf+detail.jpg" width="281" /></a></div><br /> Work from Deno appeared earlier this year on the site here.

Sue Shares a Werewolf by Deno

A couple months back, I ran into a woman during the afternoon rush hour in Penn Station who had this amazing tattoo on her right thigh: T...

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