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

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Two for Tattoosday: Elise Remembers Paris and Shares a Cardinal

<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">These next tattoos would not be here on Tattoosday were it not for signal problems at the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Jay Street</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> subway station in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Brooklyn</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">For it was an e-mail alert about those problems disrupting train service which sent me away from my normal routine and directed me last week to the Herald Square subway station to catch a D train.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">It was there on the southbound platform that I met Elise who displayed some cool ink on her arms. We chatted a bit and, because her top partially obscured sections of her tattoos, she told me she'd email me photos. Not everybody who says that means it, or follows up, but Elise did not disappoint and sent me the following photos later that evening.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">First, is this interesting tattoo on her upper right arm:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA_snwSSRaso5aOgdP3AM2XMs06ekV41QYDWi-4kFfOO0mbtZgpr7XOzpbqEqI6v3KYNivAhY6HPz5V7Y_s9ANuPdEhPpjJblg27iRDsEVGP5EDMSUq3GXTy4bJ2Ha2P5obV4blWlFYZg/s1600/paris+cameo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA_snwSSRaso5aOgdP3AM2XMs06ekV41QYDWi-4kFfOO0mbtZgpr7XOzpbqEqI6v3KYNivAhY6HPz5V7Y_s9ANuPdEhPpjJblg27iRDsEVGP5EDMSUq3GXTy4bJ2Ha2P5obV4blWlFYZg/s400/paris+cameo.jpg" width="181" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Elise calls this “</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Paris</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> in a Woman,” which is inspired by the fact that she was born and raised in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">France</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">. The idea of including the Parisian cityscape came from Charmaine Olivia, an artist based out of </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">San Francisco</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">. Elise included the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Eiffel</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Tower</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> in it. The tattoo was done by John Poverty, who tattoos out of Goose Tattoo in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Brooklyn</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Lower on her right arm is this amazing bird tattoo:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXpwpvDynUhUngtZBdVGzyDXOzrpHtw3-t7APrhyaSZP_-JreuygW-3NOKzHawVLnQSlikAPrvXiBwy9g0mkFW74SbmzzUUsNGs5Zm5lAJ2NLDY5K7Y1KyNEiDovJ2wH5RMLs-0Dj7gyU/s1600/cardinal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXpwpvDynUhUngtZBdVGzyDXOzrpHtw3-t7APrhyaSZP_-JreuygW-3NOKzHawVLnQSlikAPrvXiBwy9g0mkFW74SbmzzUUsNGs5Zm5lAJ2NLDY5K7Y1KyNEiDovJ2wH5RMLs-0Dj7gyU/s400/cardinal.jpg" width="260" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Elise explained:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">“The cardinal by Mike Adams [of True Sight Tattoo Company in Detroit] was inspired by family. Once all my siblings and I ‘flew the coop,’ my parents took up bird watching, and are now avid cardinal lovers.  Mike inked this out of Thicker Than Water in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Manhattan</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">, [where he] will have a short residency in the beginning of December.”</span></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Work by Mike appeared over the summer on Tattoosday here.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Thanks again to Elise for sharing these wonderful tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!</span></div><br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"></span></div>

Two for Tattoosday: Elise Remembers Paris and Shares a Cardinal

These next tattoos would not be here on Tattoosday were it not for signal problems at the Jay Street subway station in Brooklyn . For it w...

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