Petri Aspvik Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Who in Frith Street did that?! Its fucking perfect! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asradin Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Who in Frith Street did that?! Its fucking perfect! It was Jordan. He's a nice guy although I've never been tattooed by him. I think he is on instagram as @jordanfst Petri Aspvik 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewart Robson Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 @SF Dave and THATS why we watermark photos. Artist/Tattooer credit and contact information are always useful. Jordan Teear tattooed that solid, traditional-looking ROA backpiece. He works at Frith Street Tattoo in London. frithstreettattoo.co.uk Shannon Shirley and JAllen 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Shirley Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Ive got one very much like that. It was given to me @20 yrs ago....the glass is cracked,I cant get myself to break the seal on the back to fix it.. What's ROA mean?. There's a beautiful ROA painting in Tattoo City. I attached a mediocre picture of it, but that's probably best anyways. Go see it in person! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hands On Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 What's ROA mean?. Rock of Ages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SF Dave Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 stewart, i hear what you are saying, but believe me, i wouldnt have shared that photo without making sure proper credit is given. if there wasn't already a watermark on that photo, i most certainly would have said where it was from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Shirley Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 hehehe okey dokey thx Rock of Ages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 I always thought it meant rhododendrons or azaleas. That's not true, but i wish it was. gougetheeyes and Shannon Shirley 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoMcConaghie Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Love the Rock of Ages design. Got one on my forarm! Here is one I did the other day bomcconaghie Gregor, Kev, RoryQ and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 DAMN-that is GREAT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irezumi Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 rainbow power hogg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jade1955 Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Heres one from El Bara out of True Love Tattoo, Madrid. He's at the Scottish Tattoo convention in March. Kev, someotherguy, Gregor and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jade1955 Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Here's another tattooed by Stizzo, Best of Times, Milan Duffa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer Stell Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 A Japanese Version I nabbed a pic of at True... Duffa, tatB, Donn and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donn Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Hey Jen who did that one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer Stell Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 I can't remember for crap.... I feel like an ass for even posting without having the artist name... but it was too good to not post. I know he got it in Japan by a hori, all hand tapped/poked.... it was the smoothest thing I had ever seen. kylegrey and Duffa 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dude Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Whats the significance of the Rock of Ages? I tried looking it up on Wikipedia but it didn't help much. Thanks, Dude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAllen Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Whats the significance of the Rock of Ages? I tried looking it up on Wikipedia but it didn't help much.Thanks, Dude it is believed to be the last hymn that was heard before the ss london left port and was sunk during a storm. it has since become a popular sailor hymn. Abellve and Petri Aspvik 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abellve Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 In the original Hymn, the "Rock of Ages, cleft for me" referred to a crevice cleft *into* a wall of rock that the hym's writer is said to have used as shelter from a storm. It's apparently unclear when it switched to a protruding rock in a stormy sea...or at least that's what I read in a tiny bound book on the history of the Rock of Ages. My boss/mentor collects RoA paintings. When I apprenticed, I would watch over his shoulder in a dim room with most of the light in the room centered on the tattoo, surrounded by antique RoA prints of all kinds.Some with one woman, some with two -- one helping the other and some, fewer, with one woman safe and the stiff hand of a drowned person reaching up from the water. Petri Aspvik, Kev and Jack 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dude Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Cool. Thanks guys. Abellve, that last description was pretty creepy probably makes for a cool picture though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abellve Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 @Dude: Yeah, that's probably the one I'll get tattooed on me. Both for its symbolism and it's being so central to my early tattoo experience, I can't not get a Rock of Ages and I think the darker and more somber, the better. Despite its lighter iterations, it's a pretty weighty image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abellve Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Thanks, @JAllen. I didn't know if it was just the era. I had never considered a more sailor-specific connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGblues Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 I remember seeing that design as a very small child, maybe 1969 or 1970 when I was about 3 or 4 years old. My great grandmother had this huge wind-up clock on her wall with a glass front that had the ROA hand painted on it. The cross had an unpainted circle left out of the center so that when the pendulum swung back and forth you could see it move side to side. That clock both fascinated and scared the shit out of me, but I couldn't stop staring at. It was scary, dramatic, sad, and powerful, and I've never, ever forgotten it. I stumbled onto the Bert Grimm version of it a while back and it was like "There it is, this is what I want as my back piece". It's like karma just worked. Everything is clicking. The money to do it, the artist wants to do it, the time for it, and the girlfriend is on-board to help with the aftercare. I plan starting that back piece next month, and I'm so stoked! Abellve, Jack and Duffa 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hands On Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Just saw Dan Wyspuph's piece on @Nude Walter in the Full Back Piece Thread and thought it'd be appropriate to share here as well. Post #251, if this link doesn't take you there. http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/war-stories/492-full-back-piece-thread-page26.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravisGarcia Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 I just started my Rock of Ages on the 31st of March. Doing my second session this Saturday. The goal is to be finished by June. Its going to be a full back piece (ass and legs included) which we'll outline our 3rd session. Would like some criticism on it! Lochlan, jayessebee and Petri Aspvik 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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