Showing posts with label Badass Tattoo Artist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Badass Tattoo Artist. Show all posts

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Badass Tattoo Artist

So the missus got a new tattoo by a fella called Duke Riley. The outline was done prior to our trip to Sweden. Here's a picture of the work being done:

I accept that all tattoo artists are badasses, especially in comparison to me, an un-inked, office worker with hardly a callous on his poor writer's hands. But if I thought Duke was a badass before, it was nothing compared to what I thought about his badassedness after what he did today.

Duke is an artist, who pays the bills with his tattooing. For his latest performance/installation, Duke built a replica of a Revolutionary War "submarine" called "The Turtle."

Friday, March 12, 2010

Badass Tattoo Artist


When we returned the missus had Duke fill in the outline with some shading (there's apparently still a bit to be done), and here's how it looks today: