...from the deepest Depths

Today I had the pleasure to welcome back the infamous Paul™, who´s already some kind of "veteran" here in my blog and those who check regularly know that I´ve done some of my favorite pieces so far on this guy...

This time we decided to go a little bit bigger and started a full sleeve project.
Paul came up with the idea of a kraken pulling a ship underwater - of course, I was excited from the first moment and couldn´t wait to start with it!
As a documentary junkie I pulled out some of my nicest reference books and started to get lost in the line-drawing...

What you can see in these pictures is the result of the first session - we completed all the linework so up next is filling this beast with colours - so stay tuned, dammit!

B-52

I just finished this really fun tattoo on Benny, who came up with the idea originally planned for his arm.
Due to his job position he then decided to put this across his back.
As he told me, he was really into war machinery (he´s a death metal drummer, so this should explain it all ;-) ) and especially likes the B-52 Stratofortress, so he decided to get it into his skin permanently...
I liked the idea of Death riding on a bomber, planting carpets of GP-bombs and bringing death from the sky...

The tattoo was finished within two sessions and it was actually his very first tattoo - respect to you, Benny!

All the linework and parts of the skeleton are fully healed in these pictures, I´ll try to get some healed shots of the whole design in a few weeks, stay tuned!

Guest spot IN BRUGES

I´m very happy to announce my first Guest Spot in 2013 at Mom´s Body Shop in Bruges aka Brugge aka Brügge, Belgium.

I´ll be working there from Tuesday, April 1st (no, it´s not a joke) until Saturday, 6th of April 2013.

Of course you can try to get a walk-in at the shop but best chances are if you get in touch with me or Dave and Liesbeth from Mom´s  Body Shop in advance to make sure to save yourself an appointment!

Notice, that I can only do one-session pieces that can be finished throughout one day during this week - so if you want bigger pieces from me, you must be willing to come over to Germany for follow-up sessions!

You can see some samples of my work on my blog or in my facebook page.

As you can find out, I´m not into plain blackwork, like tribal, maori or dot work stuff - for anything else feel free to get in touch:

kai@gestochen-scharf.net

info@momsbodyshopbruges.com

tattoo@momsbodyshopbruges.com

SEE YOU THERE!