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I still need to talk this over with Chris; I'll probably email him a link to this post, actually. The images as scanned aren't great quality, but I wanted a way to see them all in about the same size, and they give you a general idea, at least. There's a set of three where I've roughly cut and pasted the head of one piece on the body of the other, and included the two complete source images, to give a general idea of where I'm going, and there are several pieces at the end that are very much in the "maybe" category.
Source Images
( general data on the figures, not in same order as slideshow, unfortunately -- ask if you have questions )
I'd be curious to hear people's perspectives on using work by living artists, and what level of permission I should ethically gain before using images of their pieces in my personal tattoo work. Also, opinions in general welcome; it's really unlikely I'll be able to work in every piece, for stylistic and space reasons (although we have a lot of skin to work with; from my midback down over my butt and around my thigh). Making that more difficult, a large part of what I'm celebrating is variety across times and cultures, which means not picking all the pieces that are most stylistically similar to each other. I've stuck with sculpture to give some commonality to the pieces, but it's only thanks to what Chris can do that we can manage to make them work in one piece, so his input will have a lot to do with final decisions, too.
I still need to talk this over with Chris; I'll probably email him a link to this post, actually. The images as scanned aren't great quality, but I wanted a way to see them all in about the same size, and they give you a general idea, at least. There's a set of three where I've roughly cut and pasted the head of one piece on the body of the other, and included the two complete source images, to give a general idea of where I'm going, and there are several pieces at the end that are very much in the "maybe" category.
Source Images
( general data on the figures, not in same order as slideshow, unfortunately -- ask if you have questions )
I'd be curious to hear people's perspectives on using work by living artists, and what level of permission I should ethically gain before using images of their pieces in my personal tattoo work. Also, opinions in general welcome; it's really unlikely I'll be able to work in every piece, for stylistic and space reasons (although we have a lot of skin to work with; from my midback down over my butt and around my thigh). Making that more difficult, a large part of what I'm celebrating is variety across times and cultures, which means not picking all the pieces that are most stylistically similar to each other. I've stuck with sculpture to give some commonality to the pieces, but it's only thanks to what Chris can do that we can manage to make them work in one piece, so his input will have a lot to do with final decisions, too.
