Grandma's Moon

Cherry Creek Wolf

Harley Davidson Eagle with Flags

His skin was sun weathered, so I went for contrast over smooth blends.

Elvis - Healed

This was actually done a long time ago - maybe 4 months back. It was my first kinda portrait, but she only wanted a tiny bit of the original picture and she wanted it small. She was in the shop the other day and I snagged a picture of it healed.

Client cross

Here's a cross/tribal piece that the client brought in. He had drawn up a relatively close version of this, so I scanned it and recreated one of the curves in Adobe Illustrator. Then, by replicating the exact curve, I just used three more of it and rotated them around fittingly.

A 7 round was used to line.

Van Gogh's Starry Night

Placed on the back of her right shoulder, I tried to learn from Van Gogh's color palette. Only the black was outlined, the rest was pure 9 mag trying to imitate the brush strokes.

Trying to exactly mimic the strokes of the painting would have taken forever and tore her up, so the idea (obviously) was to capture some of the exact strokes, then fill in the rest within the same movement of his lines. That and fade off, utilizing those lines, into the skin.

She sat incredibly well.

Birds across

Natasha had an image in her head, so we tried to pull it out. The idea is more graphic design related than real. (if that makes any sense) She wanted subtle pinks so it would heal light. So I went with red to pink to really light pink with white. Her skin filled in the rest.

Pastry Skull - Session 01

Michael is a pastry chef. His wife sketched out this piece and I tweaked it around to my liking. It's true to her sketch, but cleaned up a bit. Eventually, we'll add color.

K Butterfly on Foot

The idea she presented was an asymmetrical butterfly shape with the wings being built upon the letter "K". I went with more of a ribbon look.

Pinup - Session 01