The Angela Tattoo

Here is one I did for Angela Gegg's secret admirer.

Covering a Scar

Covering a scar is a different story. You have to work with the contours of the body and create a design that will cover or compliment the scar. You also have to take into account the size of the design the customer wants. This one took two sessions of about an hour and a half each. Line with 3-needle tights and coloured with 8-needle rounds. Used disposable tubes by UNIMAX and my custom made machine. It was a vertical scar and she wanted a small design. I decided on vines with 3 shades of green. I did not know how the end product would look but I knew how I wanted it to look. Apart from the customer twitching every few seconds getting the detail in was the difficult part. In the end I was pleased with the result and earned a few new customers after it healed.

MS 13

Since the regional crackdown on the Salvadoran based street gangs of MS-13 former members are at risk of getting deported by authorities or killed by hard core gang members. It is illegal to expose or "flash" gang tattoos in Belize and an MS-13 is certainly a ticket to shit creek without a paddle. I have covered up several MS-13 tattoos which has been very hard work. The one here had so much keloid scar tissue I lined it with a 9-needle tight configuration and did the shading with a 14-round shader. This is definntely not my best work but it is a major acheivement compared to what lies below. It is still work in progress and will have pics when completed. Plus I still have this guy's other arm and back to creatively cover up.

Cover Up

Creating a successful coverup requires a lot of patience. The customer needs to put full trust in the artist. The artist will have to create a design over and around the existing design that needs to be covered up. The final design will not be exactly what the customer wants since other factors that affect it are existing colours, keloids, and outlines. As an artist you have to convince the customer that you will be fully in charged of creating the cover up based on the customer's requested design. It is not easy to convince a new customer and when the artist allows the customer to take control of the design the result is not always favourable.