My Crazy Husband Part 2: Finished Tattoo

A few months back my husband Bruce got a portrait of me started, after modeling and even a small photoshoot we came up with a design based on a couple of paintings by Joe Capobianco. He sat through hours of pain, but seeing his face when it was complete was timeless. Yesterday Bruce went in for the final sitting from 1:30~7:30 pm at Monster Tattoo. The marvelous thing about Bruce is that he doesn't look at the tattoo while it is getting working on, he wants to embrase that perfect moment in front of the mirror. It finally came time and he was just astonished, he jumped up and yelled and picked up Steve our tattoo artist. The work that he did was like nothing I've ever seen, he even captured my eyes perfectly and the color is just stunning; it is so bright and radiant in real life, this image doesn't do it justice. All I can say is that it is such an honor that someone I care about so deeply feels the same and has inked a part of me into his skin…TRUE ROMANCE, TRUE LOVE, FOREVER.

Click to read about the first tattoo session here.

My Crazy Husband

So not only was last Friday a Good Friday, it was a MARVELous Friday! Some of you may know, that my husband and I spent all day at Monster Tattoo with our tattoo artists Jimmy Mackey and Steve Wimmer. For months now, my husband Bruce has been wanting to get a tattoo based on this painting by Joe Capobianco. The painting features a sexy woman dressed with veil but her face is deathly. To make it more original, we all came up with the idea to use me as the model, but the ironic thing is that now I look like one of my Skeleton Krew paintings; pretty awesome weird!

Friday morning, after hitting up D&D, we came into the shop bright and early and I painted my face up like a stylized skeleton. During the process we, we took several pictures of which I hope to have soon, it was alot of fun, but hard not to laugh, cause my face paint would crack. We took alot of shots under a lamp and used the outside light for awesome blues. We wanted the lighting to be very dramatic and Steve is using Philly's own Paul Acker's Joker tattoo for brilliant color.  Later Steve took the favorite photo and enhanced the colors in photoshop and added some roses to balance out the front, he eventually is going to shade some cob webs out of the negative space in the background. In the afternoon Steve worked on Bruce, while I got worked on by Jimmy, this would be the third round for my Mary Magdalene piece after the painting by J.J. Henner. 

Here are some pics of our day, and the first process of Bruce's new tattoo. The tattoo is looking good so far and everyone says we are crazy, "Oh man that takes commitment, and your nuts!" I'm super excited and am truly honored, it is funny seeing my face on my hubby's chest. I will keep you all posted for the next round, probably won't be back in for a month or so and the tattoo will probably have another two rounds.