My costumer want something half angel half good , half bad but without devils , he think about a Katrina , witch is a very popular theme in tattooing. I always try to advice my clients to chose something original , not only the motive himself but also the theme because I don t like to copy and I think is good to use body anatomy for make the tattoo fit perfect the person ( the person mind and body ) this means custom work .
This time I propose my customer to do something different than other people use to . I choose a picture with Vera Renczi , a very famous murderer from Romania in the 1920 , she was known like "The Black Widow" . Actually a very beautiful woman but she use her charm to kill more than 35 people using Arsenic , mostly mans .
I find one really cool picture with big contrast and highlights that offer me the chance to have a really light good side and almost black dark side . Because my customer don t want to have visible demons on the skin I choose to do half face like a negative skull , in order to suggest the evil , but on the first moment you can see only the woman . I use her face lines to build the skull side in harmony with the other side and I just use some highlights for balance with the light side keeping all the skull in the shadow.
I think this is one of my most powerful projects , not only because the technic but mostly because the theme and the history of the picture .
Here are the reference picture and my tattoo work.
The tattoo take 30 min drawing , 3.5 hours of work and I use Cheyenne Thunder and my own pure black formula ;)
