Nov '25 • 🎨🖌️ Share Your Art / WIP
Sometimes my artwork really gets under the skin...
About 7 months ago, a friend of mine asked if I would design a tattoo for him to celebrate 18 months free from alcohol and cocaine. I was honored! After deciding to make it a Cooper's hawk of some sort, it took me another 6 months to actually create it for him. Last weekend he had it done (in one, brutal sitting). It was a fun project and I am happy with how it turned out.
Loooong ago I was a tattoo artist apprentice for about a year, and did just a few tattoos, and have designed a few others for myself and others, but it has been a long while. I am proud of this one, and very proud of my friend Ben who saved his own life before age 35 and is now helping host AA and CA meetings and being a positive influence on many others, including his little brother who has continued to follow in his footsteps.
Honesty, these two were some of my favorite party-mates before I stopped partying as well, and I was a 'disruptive' influence on a great many individuals for a lot of my younger life, so it is a perfect synchronicity that now I and this artwork get to be a symbol of healing and positive transformation.
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Sometimes my artwork really gets under the skin...
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