Unfortunately I don't have a picture the tattoo that is getting covered, and even If I did Rene'e would likely shoot me for posting it... Let's just say for those that have never seen it, it BADLY needed to be covered :)
She discussed the generalities of what she was looking for with the artist and was happy when she left the shop on Saturday night and scheduled her work to begin on Tuesday of this week. The basics of what she told him was that she wanted some old school sailer jerry style tattoo. When Rene'e arrived at the shop to see what the artist came up with, she wasn't too happy with his initial design below.
Considering Rene'e had not even mentioned horses she wasn't really liking the first design... you'd really have to like horses to get something like that done, but I think the thought process was that the horses mane would do a good job of covering up some of her old tattoo.
After some further discussion with the artist and looking through some more books she found what she was looking for. It had several of the things she had been thinking about, a pinup, an anchor, and a sailboat. This picture is the tattoo she decided to get to cover her old one.
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And here is liner work and some shading that was completed for her first session. You'll notice that beyond the flash work she's also got some stars and dots surrounding the main design and that it is almost a complete half sleeve at this point. man I'm jealous!
Rene'e seems to be quite pleased with the work so far and she is scheduled to go back in two weeks to hopefully get it finished... There is lots of shading and coloring yet to be done and I can't wait to see how the final cover up job turns out!
