tattoo soon
May. 5th, 2011 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
e_phemerartI have an appointment with Caroline at Blue Rose on Friday evening to get my latest tattoo.
A design for Desmond. (done before Mother's Day.)
Cliche but heartfelt, a copy of his newborn footprint. (print of his left foot on my left ankle)
Personalized with the addition of mercury/cherub wings on the heel (good mojo for encouraging my grandson to be a runnerboy, if he wants to be as he grows up!)
With his initials monogrammed underneath. (I had to check, monograms are traditionally arranged First Name-Last Name-Middle Name, so D-L-A in a script font; with the surname initial often being larger or fancier in the design.)
Maybe done in blue ink?
Pictures later, of course, but here's the (latest revised) working sketch:
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(hmmm..need to still fuss with the feathers. LOL..especially since my sister told me they looked more like a chicken than a cherub; so, I softened and plumped them up some. And I tweaked the monogram spacing to move the "A" just a bit farther away from the "L")
Oh, btw, I had some tattoo documentation done recently by Hannah's photographer friend Kat. I'll pick up the Cd of images next time I'm up visiting in Tennessee. Then I'll be able to work some on my 50X50 photo essay. lol..along with Desmond's baby quilt, I would kind of like to get this project done this year (before I turn 51).
This will be tattoo #52, if anyone is still keeping count. :)
A design for Desmond. (done before Mother's Day.)
Cliche but heartfelt, a copy of his newborn footprint. (print of his left foot on my left ankle)
Personalized with the addition of mercury/cherub wings on the heel (good mojo for encouraging my grandson to be a runnerboy, if he wants to be as he grows up!)
With his initials monogrammed underneath. (I had to check, monograms are traditionally arranged First Name-Last Name-Middle Name, so D-L-A in a script font; with the surname initial often being larger or fancier in the design.)
Maybe done in blue ink?
Pictures later, of course, but here's the (latest revised) working sketch:
(hmmm..need to still fuss with the feathers. LOL..especially since my sister told me they looked more like a chicken than a cherub; so, I softened and plumped them up some. And I tweaked the monogram spacing to move the "A" just a bit farther away from the "L")
Oh, btw, I had some tattoo documentation done recently by Hannah's photographer friend Kat. I'll pick up the Cd of images next time I'm up visiting in Tennessee. Then I'll be able to work some on my 50X50 photo essay. lol..along with Desmond's baby quilt, I would kind of like to get this project done this year (before I turn 51).
This will be tattoo #52, if anyone is still keeping count. :)
