A Sunday Spent Tattooing

Dearest Readers,

As the name of this post implies it is about this past sunday.  I really have nothing that new or exciting to wrote about this week except that. It started with a few friends coming over to have a few beers and chew the fat a bit.  Caro (a friend of mine) came as well to start her new tattoo. As we went on about this and that i started preparing the stencil to transfer the image directly onto her skin.
The next step was to clean my work area (my table). This implies passing some sort of disinfectant spray and wrapping the area in question with plastic film. I prepared me machines and in and finally got down to work.

An artist always starts with the outline of the image, later filling it in with color and shading. As we soon discovered this part of Caro’s leg was incredibly sensitive and her constant movement was impeding my work. At this point we decided to only do the outline that day and later fill the piece in.

http://www.fotolog.com/josh_inked

After much discomfort, on both our parts, the outline was finished. As the last of her insults and obscenities (due to the pain) finished i could not help wondering “this must be what a dentist feels like”.

After cleaning up and few more beers everthing mellowed out and it seemed as though my earlier acts of torture were forgotten. I finished my day attending a stand-up show at a local bar .

This is about what a typical sunday is for me.

Sincerely,

J

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