Tattoo Created: July 2011

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Happy Blogiversary To Me! A Re-Post Celebration

Today marks Tattoosday's fourth anniversary, when we first started off here on BillyBlog as a once a week feature, before spinning off into a stand-alone site little over a month later.

To celebrate, I'll be sharing favorite posts from the past four years throughout the day. Just a little celebratory break before we resume our normally-scheduled programming.

I also encourage readers to comment below or email me (tattoosday@gmail.com) and I will attempt to re-post reader favorites throughout the day.

Thanks to all of my readers for supporting me throughout the years! Here's to at least four more years!

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Saturday, July 30, 2011

PINUPS AND COMICS

Hello my friends!
Some months ago, for personal reasons, I've decided and announced that I would stop to create pinups images.
Well.. right now...after some new good things that happened on my life, carreer and countless messages from people that appreciate my Art with Pinups asking for new images...I have to say that I definitively can not stop.
On my personal Pinup projects, I like to create situations for my pinups that are a really big exciting adventure to me and all this process makes me more creative and very inspired. I like to create pinups with an interesting subject...a concept ...a curiosity...a joke... not only a beautiful girl standing up doing nothing. She is part of a small story in one single image...and because of that , each new pinup is a great challenge to me as an artist.
And there is another good thing really great happening to me right now...and it involves Comics Projects! Wow...I LOVE Comics and all that really good inspiration makes me thrilled and eager with what more else I can do with my heart and my Art!

So...I have to say.... "I am ready to come back to play with my dolls again !"

I hope to count on you all to see the new images are coming soon!

Thank you all!!
Cris Delara

Angelina Jolie wishes to cross the Sahara dessert

Angelina Jolie has a dream of crossing the Sahara dessert but this will difficult to implement if she brings along her kids.

She told the Financial Times, "It takes 28 days . . . it would have to be on a camel. I wonder if I could do it in pieces and station the kids along the way."

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Better Late Than Never

Back in April, I ran into John in Herald Square (34th and 6th) who had some pretty amazing work. He estimates he is about 25% covered in tattoos, which includes both arms, hands to shoulders, and both sides of his neck.

I stopped him and handed him a flier, but he was in a hurry, so we went our separate ways.

A month or so later, he e-mailed me a couple of photos:

John "loved Popeye growing up" and "love[s] the way [tattoos] look".

Not a lot more to tell, other than this was done by Rodrigo Melo, when he was at Rising Dragon Tattoos on 23rd Street (now on 14th). Rodrigo has since left Rising Dragon and co-founded North Star Tattoo in the East Village.

John is a photographer whose work can be seen here.

Thanks to John for sharing his ink with us here on Tattoosday!

CRIS DELARA: X-23 SKETCH

CRIS DELARA: X-23 SKETCH: " One more sketch... It will be great after colors!!"

X-23 SKETCH

One more sketch... It will be great after colors!!

Friday, July 29, 2011

MS MARVEL ACRYLIC ON CANVAS WIP

Hi!
I decided to share with you the working in progress of this painting.
It's a 18"x14" acrylics on canvas and the drawing I am painting is my last Ms Marvel image posted here days ago.
My Values study is my guide to chose the right colors and lights.
It's really very fun and exciting to work on this process...I almost cant wait to finish!
Thanks for your comments!
Cris

The Quotable Tom Ford

As a new season of Project Runway premiered last night, I thought I'd share a fashion-related tattoo. Working on "Fashion Avenue," I see a lot of ink on people in the industry. Here's one from Megan:

This is a quote by the fashion designer Tom Ford:

"Beauty is an illusion/It is here only for a moment/Then it fades/But in the brief moment of existence/It has forever/impacted the world"

Megan read these words in one of Ford's books, in a section about evening wear.

"I love Tom Ford," she told me, "and I think he's a very smart man."

The tattoo was done about 2-3 years ago at Ink Candy in Hollywood by an artist named Angel.

Thanks to Megan for sharing this inspirational quote with us here on Tattoosday!

Brangelina spending their holiday in Cornwall

Brad is filming his new movie in Falmouth and Angelina Jolie and their kids are spending their holiday in Cornwall.

One source said: "Brad thought the family might as well have a holiday while he's shooting World War Z."

"Cornwall is a little different from their usual destinations but they've heard lots of good things about the county."

"Staying on a yacht will mean they'll be able to visit various seaside towns so the kids won't get bored."

"They're all really looking forward to it."

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Thursday, July 28, 2011

WONDER WOMAN ORIGINAL ARTS, PENCIL AND INK

Hi my dear friends:

First of all, thank you very much for the e-mails about my last comic arts. They were really inspiring and motivating.

I have been preparing some comic material due my intentions to come back to the comic industry as a cover artist and colorist for internal pages.

Meanwhile I am posting some of my comic art (pinups) and original art to be sold. I still work with traditional pinup art, but I am drawing new girls that very soon will be released.

Yes, I am available for commissioning!!! Comic fans, private collectors and so on.... just contact me by e-mail to discuss rates, deadlines, details etc.

Well, here are 2 original arts for Wonder Woman available for sale. One in Pencil and another one in Ink.

I posted on July 19th and June 24th, the digital version and first pencil version for this image. Actually I made some tweaks and now they are for sale on Ebay.

Now I am posting the first sketch with the final pencil and ink images.

I hope you like them and comments are welcome.

Cheers, Cris

Katie's Bouquet

I spotted this lovely tattoo on the Broadway-Lafayette subway platform last month, while switching trains:

This floral piece, on Katie's calf, is one of her eight tattoos.

The larger flower is an iris and the smaller flowers are Narcissus papyraceus or, as they are commonly known, Paperwhites.

She added these paperwhites specifically because they were her Nan's favorite flower.

The tattoo was done by an artist named Ron Hotte in San Diego. Rob is currently back in New York, more specifically on Long Island, at Solid Gold Tattoo.

Thanks to Katie for sharing this beautiful tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

A Skull in Penn Station

Last week, I was passing through Penn Station when I spotted a woman with a bunch of interesting tattoos. I introduced myself, and had taken a picture of one of her tattoos, when the loudspeaker announced her train was boarding. Having learned nothing about the tattoo I had just photographed, I gave her my card and asked her to e-mail me the details.

When this happens, I am often left with a tattoo and no story. But fortunately for all of us here at Tattoosday, Stephanie e-mailed me a few days later, and this is what she had to say:

"You stopped me in Penn Station ... and took a picture of my tattoo. Its a skull on my forearm, pink with green flowers and a backwards jaw :)

I got the tattoo years ago now and the color is still incredibly vibrant. I got it at Chameleon Tattoo & Body Piercing in Harvard Sq, Cambridge Massachusetts. The artist's name is Rueben Kayden. He does amazing traditional work and I've had him work on me several other times. At the time he had been working on two pin-up girls I have on the backs of my arms. I went in for my appointment and Rueben showed me a design he had been doodling. It was a strange skull with its jaw on the back of its head, and flowers all around. I immediately loved it. So, we ended up just tattooing that on me instead. I'm very random and I love random pieces of work. What's better than a random story?"

Work from Chameleon Tattoo and Body Piercing has appeared previously on the site here and here.

Thanks to Stephanie for sharing this tattoo and story with us here on Tattoosday!

Angelina Jolie and kids shop at Richmond borough of London

Angelina Jolie brought her older daughters, Zahara and Shiloh for shopping in the Richmond borough of London, England on Tuesday.

Owner of Toy Station tells Us Weekly, "She bought a fairy outfit for Zahara and a Viking helmet for Shiloh. She also bought a few pocket money items, including a squirty camera, cap gun and a magic worm."

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Two for Tattoosday - Dave's Scalpflower and Bethany's Lonely Whale

A couple weeks back, I met Dave and Bethany outside of the Borders Penn Plaza in Manhattan. Both had amazing ink and shared some tattoos with us. Let's start with Dave's "scalpflower":

Dave explained that this floral tattoo on his scalp was inked by Mike Adams, who was doing a guest spot at Thicker Than Water in Manhattan.

Dave elaborated:

"We had talked about some ideas when I saw him [Mike Adams] at the Philadelphia Convention. We showed up [at Thicker than Water] and he just showed me some of the drawings of the tattoos he had recently done.

He had done another flower on someone else in the past week and I said 'Oh, let's do one of those.' He said, 'Yeah, that's awesome/ Let's do it.' "

Dave, who is approximately 70% covered in tattoos, had mostly been worked on by Tony Hundahl from Rock of Ages Tattoo in Austin, Texas. Hundahl has done both of Dave's sleeves (including the traditional segment pictured below), his chest, stomach, back, knees and one of his legs.

Dave added that, since moving to Washington D.C. recently, he started collecting work from other artists in the East.

Along with Dave, I met Bethany who, shared one of her more recent tattoos, this whale by Deno Jr.:

Deno Jr. works out of Circus Tattoo in Madrid, Spain, but had recently done a guest spot at Tattoo Paradise in D.C.

This tattoo is of this lonely whale, whose song is different from any other species, so it is an outcast, and she doesn't have a mate.

Thanks to Dave and Bethany for sharing their amazing tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

Monday, July 25, 2011

Angelina Jolie and kids went to aquarium

Angelina Jolie wore grey jumper and black skinny jeans to aquarium
together with her kids. Brad and her sons, Maddox and Pax didn't join them.

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Batman (Original Art in Acrylics) for Sale.

Hi:

I painted this unique piece of comic art, Batman in Acrylics, on canvas board, 14 x 18 inches.

Here you can see the original sketch (from my sketchbook) and the final result.

Batman in Acrylics for Sale

The price is affordable and if you would like to buy it or recommend it to someone here is the link:
Batman, by Cris Delara - Acrylics

Just to show a little more details of the painting following there are some other pictures I took.
This piece is a must for any real Bat fan gallery.

I hope you like it and comments are welcome.

Cheers, Cris.

Aisha's Stunning Back Piece

This incredible back piece belongs to Aisha, a former New Yorker who now resides in Florida.

I met her last month at the corner of 36th Street and Broadway in Manhattan.

The tattoo is an interpretation of the old adage, "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil".

Inked over eleven years ago and representing about twenty hours of work, this huge piece was her second of eight tattoos.

She remembers only that the artist's name is Rodrigo, so it may have been Rodrigo Melo who currently owns and works at North Star Tattoo, but I am still working to confirm he was the tattooer behind this.

"I told him what I wanted," Aisha explained. "He just drew it on my back and I loved it and that was it."

The face is female, her eyes are closed and she has a mouth bit that represents her silence.

Despite the face's eyes being closed, she indicated that the "third eye" in the middle of the forehead is open. The third eye can be interpreted many ways, but often refers to looking inward and a greater consciousness.

Thanks to Aisha for sharing this amazing tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Angelina Jolie may act in Sin City

Robert Rodriguez is working on the script for Sin City and some actors that are in his mind includes Angelina Jolie and Rachel Weisz. But this is not confirmed yet.

He said, "I don't think we'll have trouble [getting stars to come] on board because people loved 'Sin City' and they love that world and they love a chance to play in that arena and so many actors especially love film noir, and it's such an updated modernized film noir that it doesn’t feel nostalgic. It feels new, so I think people will run to be a part of it."

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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Ms Marvel

This is a value study for a Ms Marvel Fan Art image.
I will post here more details of this process and tomorrow I will start this painting in Acrylics.I will share with you guys this traditional painting process too. Your comments are very welcome. :)
Thanks
Cris

Amy Winehouse Will Live On in Andrea's Ink

Back in June, I met Andrea on Penn Plaza in Manhattan and she shared this tattoo:

This is, of course, Amy Winehouse, whose death was just announced yesterday. Andrea, who has this inked on her upper right arm, says she had this done "in the style of Monet". The artist was "Mad Dog" at Studio 33 Tattoo on St. Mark's in Manhattan.

When I asked Andrea why she got Winehouse tattooed on her, she replied, "she has such amazing talent" and professed her admiration for her as an artist.

The tattoo art is based on a painting she had found online, and she selected it to add to her collection of approximately twenty tattoos.

In hindsight, it seems almost haunting that I photographed this piece on June 22, a month and a day before she died. We here at Tattoosday are saddened by her passing and can only wonder what art will never be created because she died at such an early age, like so many other talented musicians whose struggles with addiction cut their lives short.

Thanks to Andrea for sharing this tattoo. I hope that her ink gives her strength as she bears this tribute to Amy Winehouse for everyone to see.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Angelina Jolie took kids to Harry Potter movie

Angelina Jolie took all her kids to watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 movie on Friday at the Richmond Odeon theater. One person didn't join them, Jolie's partner Brad Pitt. He is busy filming his movie World War Z.

One source said that they bought a lot of food, "All the kids had hot dogs, and they had popcorn and drinks. They looked like they had a great time!"

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Poppies for Poppy

These poppies are courtesy of Emma, who I met in Penn Station last week.

She got poppies because, she told me, "My grandfather passed away a couple years ago and I used to call him Poppy".

This is one her five tattoos, and represents about four and a half hours of work by Gus Espinoza at La Familia Tattoo, in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Thanks to Emma for sharing "Poppy's Poppies" with us here on Tattoosday!

Friday, July 22, 2011

It Was A Very Good Year for Some

I was passing through Penn Station earlier this month, when I spotted a young lady with this tattoo:

Being a baseball fan, I guessed what the meaning of this tattoo was, but I had to ask, just to confirm. The young woman, who wished only to be identified as "Passenger Jane Doe," confirmed, this tattoo refers to the last year that the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.

A self-described "huge Cubs fan," she elaborated:

"My dad would take me to games. I ... grew up keeping score when I was 6 years old. I was the little girl with the scorecard. I moved to D.C. five years ago. Being a transplant made me cling to my home identity more ... whenever the Cubs come to D.C., I go to the whole series at Nats Park."

She designed the tattoo herself, using a few different fonts for inspiration. The tattoo was inked at Ambrotos Tattoo. She told me it was in D.C., but they have two locations in Bethesda and Silver Spring, Maryland, so I'm not sure which shop did the work.

Thank you, Passenger Jane Doe, for sharing your love of baseball, the Chicago Cubs, and this tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Angelina Jolie's daughters looking cute at LAX

Angelina and her older daughters, Shiloh and Zahara was spotted at LAX. Shiloh looks cute wearing green sunglasses.

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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Chris and His Empirical Pin-up

Well, little did I know, but yesterday, when I posted some of Fernando's tattoos, the R2-D2 and Megatron pieces in particular, it was coinciding with the opening of Comic-Con 2011 in San Diego.

Since I am not traveling to the big convention to inkspot (maybe some day, when I have the wherewithal), let's continue the Comic-Con theme over the next few days with some material I have encountered over the past few days.

Cue Chris, who I met at the end of June on Seventh Avenue and 32nd Street, and offered up this killer tattoo:

Chris credited this tattoo to Mike Ski, an artist who works in Philadelphia.

According to Chris, Mike is well known for his Old School style of tattooing, which includes that classic pin-up girl look.

Chris said that the tattoo was also influenced by the work of Alphonse Mucha from the late 1800's. This, Chris told me, is "an Old School take on that. We just thought it's be fun to do and," he added, "I've always loved Star Wars."

For those of you not in the know, this pin-up is sporting the garb of the Imperial Stormtroopers.

And, just so to sate our taste for the Empire, the inner part of Chris' arm has a portrait of Darth Vader:

Thanks to Chris for sharing his love of Star Wars with us here on Tattoosday!

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Matt Damon feels sorry for Angelina Jolie and Brad

Matt Damon feels sorry for Angelina Jolie and Brad.

He said, "I have friends who are like prisoners. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, for instance.They can't just go someplace. If they go for a walk, it turns into an international incident."

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Fernando's Trio of Whimsical Ink

I met Fernando a while back outside of Penn Station and he had a lot of work to share. He estimated that he had around thirty tattoos on his canvas, but we picked three to spotlight here on Tattoosday.

As a Star Wars fan, he couldn't resist this portrait of R2-D2:

The banner "YOU'RE MY ONLY HOPE" refers to the scene in the first movie, when Princess Leia sends a holographic distress message to Obi-Wan Kenobi via R2-D2 that ends, "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope."

Both the tattoo of R2-D2 and this one, were done by Evan at Revolver Tattoo in New Burnswick, New Jersey:

That is Megatron, the leader of the Decepticons in the Transformers franchise.

And thirdly, Fernando shared this take on a sugar skull:

This piece was tattooed by Mike Rivelry at Immortal Ink.

Thanks to Fernando for sharing a few of his dozens of tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Brad Pitt begin his relationship with Angelina before

According to a book, Brad Pitt already start his relationship with Angelina Jolie even before he ended his marriage with Jennifer Aniston. The relationship started while both of them acted in Mr & Mrs Smith.

Milchan saying: "When I heard that Brad left home ... I offered that he stay at my house in Malibu. He drove to the set ... on a motorcycle, and he wore a wrap-around helmet with a tinted visor so no one could recognise him."

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Wonder Woman

Panic in New York - A Visit from Victor

I always like visits from old friends of the site, but when I bumped into Victor in the Penn Plaza Borders back in May, I realized I hadn't seen him in a while. Turns out he had moved out of New York and has been residing in Pennsylvania.

Before we go further, perhaps you should reacquaint yourselves with Victor's "tat-alog". He first appeared here, showing off eight tattoos, then we checked out five more cinematic tattoos here, and then, last year, an iconic piece here.This will mark the fourth consecutive year Victor has appeared on the site, so we'll make it a good, no, great one:

This incredible David Bowie tattoo was inked by Victor's brother, Eddie Bonacore, at 5-7-0 Tattooing Co. in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

The image above, of course, is from the iconic Bowie album Aladdin Sane.

Victor told me that Eddie's Bowie portrait had garnered three awards at a recent tattoo convention.

It was a pleasure seeing our old friend Victor after a year, and we thank him, and his brother Eddie, for sharing this amazing tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

Angelina Jolie took her daughters for fun

Angelina Jolie took her elder daughters, Shiloh and Zahara for outing on sunday.

They had a great day. They went Ozzie Dots, a vintage clothing, prop and costume store.

Mother and daughters bonding. How sweet.

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Monday, July 18, 2011

Lori Shares Some Peonies, and a Fairy Mermaid

When I post here at Tattoosday, there is no definite chronological order. I tend to follow a variety of factors, which can often result in older encounters waiting in the wings for a very long time.

Take Lori, for example. At the beginning of May, while my wife was at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, fighting a bout of appendicitis, I walked over to a pizzeria on 50^th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway for a quick bite for lunch. On my way out, I noticed two women at a table, one of whom, Lori, had some pretty nice ink. Generally, one of my unwritten rules is not to bother people while they are eating, so I handed the woman my card and asked her to contact me if she was interested in contributing to Tattoosday.

Lori e-mailed me shortly thereafter, and a few weeks later, she sent me some photos. Since then, she has been patiently waiting for the post. E-mailed submissions tend to get a little lost in the shuffle but, finally, thanks to a little nudge on our Facebook page, we’re finally seeing them here on the site.

I’ll let Lori explain what we’re seeing:

“Here are 2 peonies, one is a flash stencil, done by Mike B. at Studio Enigma on Avenue U [in Brooklyn] .... the other peony (my favorite), was hand drawn by Pablo Barada, who is from Argentina [also at Studio Enigma] …

The Fairy mermaid was a picture I found just surfing the internet, so I printed it out. I wish I still had the black and white photo before Mike B. colored it in. Now that I look at it, I think the B&W was much prettier. By the way, she took 18 hours to do, six three-hour sittings.”

Thanks to Lori for sharing some of her tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!