Entries from Allen Tattoo tagged with 'color'

Murder Sleeve - A long session

Ashley came in and gave me many hours to work on this piece. I'm starting to love session work because I can see how each person heals. Contrast is obviously present or not and I can layer whatever I...

The beginning of a sleeve

I went into the shop on my day off to begin what will be a full sleeve on my brother-in-law. We've much to do, but so far I'm happy with the skull. I tried my best to apply the...

Little Green Guy

This lady came in with her own version of a line drawing taken from some cartoon. We went with a green body and she chose light magenta and yellow for extra goodness. She wanted it cute, and I was...

Koi - Another Session

View larger image Still more to go, here's the small post from the last session. I thoroughly enjoyed figuring out how to mix orange. How do you make orange darker? I went over the greys with a version of...

Buckethead

Sorry about the glare, but here's a larger version. And here's some other angles of the tattoo This guy came in and wanted Buckethead on the back of his calf. He's a huge fan and was gung ho on...

Different Styles

They'll keep you guessing, but I promise you'll learn every time.

A little here and there

View larger image I got to go over a tattoo I did awhile back. I wasn't about to change it much, but I certainly wanted to enhance it. My 26th tattoo, I didn't know much about color mixing, so...

A More Confident Outline

A steadier outline, a flash dolphin, one plate of haggis, and a full-strength dram for good measure.