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It's loosely based on an engraving from this series:

The image itself is an alchemical illustration depicting the distillation of the lapis(or philosopher's stone). The annotations mention three types of distillery: cold, hot, and dry. This one is hot, describing the process as burning the lapis at a high temperature for a very long time. The series shows a homonculoid creature and fire within the bottle, and changes into a snake, which eventually eats its tail(ouroboros).
It's all very metaphysical and dense, but very interesting to read about. I'll take some pictures of the book and the images I referenced when I get home if you'd like to see them.

I absolutely LOVE this!

Just got this yesterday!!!!! 4 hours by George Campise.

got this lined up yesterday by Antonio Roque @ Black Label Tattoo Company in Frederick, MD.

Awww! @Delicious and @Pugilist Thanks guys!
It's incredibly difficult to get a good picture of my own legs though!!
And... I've still got some big ol' spaces... When I look at them I see so much that's left to be filled LOL!!
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By Paco Cendon at Electric 13 in Austin.
Aside from the AMAZING snake he put on me he was so fun and easy to sit for, can't say enough nice things about him!
The full snake is on his Instagram, the face is my favorite :)

here's a hint...
proper picture to come (as soon as I can poach it from IG ;) )
Love it!!!

Nuttin' fancy.

Inside forearm done by Dustin Hysell at Fate Tattoo in Columbus

Yesterday was a good day. Got some sweet filler tattoos from Alex Wild

Just returned from Scotland. Here's what I got on Tuesday from Joe Ellis (his IG pic):

Little jammer today from Kyle Sajban at Red Rocket Tattoo.

Got a tat fron Micah James from tried and true tattoo about 2 weeks ago. This pic was taken after a week of healing it has now been 2 weeks and 2 days so

Go this sunday from the Awesome and generally super cool Beaux Brady on sunday to go with my other hand he did.

Stu at Progression Tattoo finished my Medusa last night, I'm really stoked with it!

what do you guys think about this one?

My wife picked this out for me last night. Done by Jason at Taylor Street. Good times were had.

This is from yesterday, really fun piece on my buddy as part of a trade before he moves to Australia. A little red and bruised, but I think I got a good picture.
be nice, I get really self conscious posting my work among so many amazing tattoos :o
(although I am totally open to constructive criticism if anyone feels so inclined!)

stole this from sonju's injungram

A relatively recent one - from Deno when he was visiting Tattoo Paradise last year. Picture borrowed from his Instagram.

speaking of slugs...

by Jacek Minkowski at Mom's Body Shop in San Francisco.
Alright, I'm done blowing up this thread..... for today.

Jesus Slug by Jason Mcafee @ Temple Tattoo in Oakland, CA

long time lurker, first time poster.
My latest from Andrew Slater, All for One Tattoo in Richmond, VA.

Meaning is 100% a construct though... my knee tiger could represent "courage", or it could be about "my relationship with my mother", or whatever... it might be just that it's pretty frkn awesome to have a big ol' tiger on my knee... the meaning in it is what I want the meaning to be. I could get a tattoo of a hairy ballsack on my thigh and decide that it represents my love of music...

Bob Roberts panther tattooed by Hiro at Spotlight Tattoo. His photo.

By Phil Hatchet Yau at Master Tattoo in San Diego, CA. What a rad dude to get tattooed by. I met Drew Linden there too, she's super chill!
I thought Phil switched to a rotary at one point, but he was using lidocaine instead (which was awesome). I've met only one other tattooer that uses Bactine during tattoo sessions.

Here is a pic of my chest piece that the magnificent Chad Koeplinger did last night at Congress Street Tattoo.. I absolutely love how this came out.
It hurt more than I thought it would, and I thought it would hurt a lot. Jason Scott and his wife Kim sat nearby the entire time and offered great moral support. It was an adventure. Definitely biggest tattoo that I have and by far the most painful. But, it was definitely worth the pain.
Apparently Chad is coming back to Congress St soon and will color it then.
I have to say, he is one cool dude, and was amazing through the entire process. I absolutely love the design he came up with. I will get my back done by him when that time comes.
sorry for the sideways picture. That crap annoys the piss out of me. Pulled the other pic from Chad's instagram to show it properly.