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I process small ones, like mice squirrels and rabbits here at home. They're small enough to boil and then use peroxide, and they don't smell when they're fresh. I'd not take on anything long dead or bigger than the stovetop at home. That bear is still a little waxy feeling. I have another that is dry. I think it must have been in the sun.

I find naturally cleaned skulls sometimes on the farm or hikes. If they're clean enough to carry, I'll bring them home, but I don't really need anymore whitetails or raccoons, so I usually leave them these days. I do hunt, but I've not been hunting for any new or interesting species in a long time. I'd like to have an elk skull with the ivory intact, so maybe we'll get lucky the next time we head to Colorado. I'd send something that big off to someone with beatles.

Fair enough :D

Nice! I'd love to have an elk. You should post up some pics of your collection. Sounds like you've got a lot of cool stuff!

"Artsy iPad shots" ;)

Black bear

Gray wolf

Mountain lion

Opossum, muskrat, skunk, mouse, vole

arters gonna art

Yeah, but walls don't have feelings. If customer service is honestly a hindrance to your process, start blasting walls or engraving Naugahyde or baking clay and artistically breaking it. You may have to art, but you don't have to art on skin is all I'm saying. :D

I continue to not fully get this. If you want total artistic control, don't art on human skin. There are lots of inanimate media. There aren't any tattoos I want that badly.

I don't like the big-eyed, silly colored hybrid animals. I've never cared for Ed Roth's art for the same reason. I do not mind the vast expansion of the tattoo color palette. I like color!

Cool! You teach Wildlife ID, or you were taking a class? I collect skulls too! Is that a whitetail?

I teach a class for 11 - 18 year old olds. That one is an elk, but whitetails were today too. This is the bulkiest class to teach. The back of the wagon was packed full of various antlers.

the cat in the plane is awesome!

Super awesome!

My first Wildlife ID class of the year was today. I got to play with my skulks and skins. Good day!

A googah is just a decoration :)

I'm not sure if Japanese is my style, but I know they work with the body and I'm sure that would not turn out masculine on a woman's body.

A horse skull is a long, thin shape. It would make a cool tattoo by itself, no doubt, but I think it needs something - flowers, wind bars, you know, googahs to make it into a full wrap "sleeve" tattoo. I was thinking that I could put a horse on the inside of my arm. I've had several over the years, so I could provide pictures of mine, but I've loved the illustrations in the Marguerite Henry books since I was a kid too. Oh, and Zenyatta, and many trips to Lexington, and The Black Stallion... Horse crazy little girls never really get over it.

@TrixieFaux those are lovely! I really like both of them, but the raven is my favorite part.

I do like the Lars Uwe tattoos. They are more Nouveau, but the color palette is super!

I'd like to get a significant piece including a horse skull, something like Marguerite Henry/Wesley Dennis horse painting or pencil drawing, and maybe some deco-ish googahs. The shape of a horse skull certainly lends itself to a half sleeve.

I look at a lot of tattoos, and I seem to see a lot of bits and pieces and shoulder pieces, but not as many cohesive "sleeve" pieces.

Is it "too masculine"?

Show me some lady arms, please?

Ashley Love's chubby pinups with tattoos are one of my favorite things.

I love them so much :o

Pretty maple leaves. Do you know who did them?

Yeah, the eagle is ok, but FRECKLES! :cool:

Well, nebulas and space stuff made me think of Andres Acosta.

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But there are so many people in that part of Texas!

No way, read Slaughterhouse Five.

Vonnegut is rich with tattoo ideas, including his own illustrations. I got to see him speak, and spoke with him briefly after the presentation. It was awesome!

The animated Tale of the Three Brothers has a creepy, skeletal, wispy death.

No question I prefer this image in black & gray.

I enjoyed the way they handled Death in the Harry Potter movie, and I like reaper spiders and reaper snakes.

I have tickets for both Sunday and Monday concerts, have a hotel room booked, and train tickets home on the 30th have been purchased.

I don't think I can cram a tattoo into this trip? I've been looking at Deluxe Tattoo (Ryan Flaherty specifically), but I 1) don't want a time constrained tattoo from an artist I've been following on the internet, and 2) don't want to go to two concerts / ride public transportation / walk all over the Loop with a fresh tattoo.

I can't remember wanting a specific one as a kid. I could ride my bike (in town) or horse (on the farm) as far as I ever wanted to go, and we played The A Team until it got dark.

Now, I think I'd like to be able to teleport.

If you're into his style, Matt Stebly is in Ocean Springs.

Matt Stebly Tattoos :

Oh my goodness, there are a lot of tattoo shops down on Magazine. If you go, get a po boy and an Abita at Parasol's.

I am sorry for your loss. There is nothing wrong with a man wearing a daisy, IMO. A strong black & gray with dates would be a powerful statement. Your artist will be able to help you with formulating your ideas into a workable tattoo. I'd not go in with your ideas too firm, because watching my ideas turned into an image was the best part of my first tattoo. (Which happens to be a girly flower :) )

There is a lot of skin that is exposed with casual clothing, but covered with "work" clothing, and skin that is usually covered except at the beach that you can tattoo regardless of your profession. Visible tattoos are not always ok, even in "casual" work situations, but it can vary widely.

I used to work closely with a corporate art department. Some of the artists had visible tattoos, some had covert tattoos, and some had no tattoos. It was not a barrier to their jobs in the art department, but they may not have moved into client facing sales or convention positions because of them. To be quite honest, the woman with hand tattoos and a full back piece had no interest in client facing work at all, so it was not a barrier to her.

Do you like them with wings out or folded? Fighting, on a flag, with something clutched in talons?

Don't put a dinky one in a big open area.