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Wow, it has really been a long time. This is a little embarrassing...
Life has been super hectic for me, between school, working two jobs, and anything else that might see fit to throw itself in my path. I haven't found myself with much time to draw lately, which is pretty depressing I must admit. I did, however, find time to design another tattoo for my friend JJ!
You may remember some time ago that I designed a memorial tattoo for JJ for her dog Daisy (check out my first blog post, if not). She was the first ever person to permanently apply a piece of my art to their body, and to this day I am still flattered.
So of course when she asked me to design another memorial tattoo for a close family pet, Autumn, I was honored and excited to get to work.
I sketched out a couple of potential ideas, but the one that stood out most in my mind turned out to be just what JJ was looking for. It fit nicely with her other tattoo as well!
You can see here the original sketch I did for JJ's Daisy tattoo, and I designed Autumn's memorial piece around it. I was worried that the red maple leaf motif might be too literal, but for some reason the idea wouldn't leave my head. I made it a little asymmetrical on purpose, to keep it interesting, and the veining on the leaf was meant to look like frost. JJ had expressed that she felt Autumn had passed away long before her time was up, and so I wanted to reflect this in the early signs of frost in the still colorful leaves. The coloring was a quick slap job just to be able to show off the details.
The tattooist Becky Benson did a beautiful job with it, adding a few embellishments of her own. She dabbed a little green and brown into the coloring (hard to see here), and though the frost veining detail was omitted, she left the lines skin colored, and opted out of using white as it was unnecessary and potentially distracting. Over all I feel the effect was well executed and it made for a nice additional piece to JJ's memorial arm. She wound up getting another tattoo on the other side of the Daisy piece in memory of her rat Minnie, balancing out the over all look, though that one I did not design.
Tattoo design © Sophia Cowan
Tattoo application and alterations © Becky Benson
Photograph © Jessica J. Heidelberg
( www.benaroundtattoos.com)
Tattoo application and alterations © Becky Benson
Photograph © Jessica J. Heidelberg
( www.benaroundtattoos.com)
