Jake is Inked

Totally psyched!

Up next: A traditional Americana gypsy profile on my right upper arm.

The greenman on my left upper arm is about 80% done.

Pardon the blurry phonecam mirrorshot, but if you look closely you can see the awesome color blend from greens/yellows to olive/brown to orange to red. It blows me away every time I study

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I finally get to go back in for the shading on my greenman this Saturday.

Very excited, even if I'm not really looking forward to jumping right into shading with no outline time to set the tone, as it were. Those big needle groups don't feel so hot on unsuspecting, whole flesh. ;^)

Unrelated: I wonder how many Rockies tattoos Denver area artists will be cranking out this year.

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So, yeah... My new greenman is FRIGGIN' HUGE and EFFIN' AWESOME!

So huge and so awesome that we only managed to get the line work done in the first four hour sitting. Lots o' lines in this puppy! I was a bit surprised, actually, b

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Tomorrow, I get to spend 4 hours or so with one of my favorite people in the world (Fish at Th'Ink Tank in Denver) while he etches a Green Man on my left upper arm.

Yay!

I imagine I'll be posting pictures of the process to my Flickr page as it happens.

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