finchdown: Two hours on Tuesday, One and one-half hours on Wednesday.   Seven sessions (includi

finchdown:

Two hours on Tuesday, One and one-half hours on Wednesday.  

Seven sessions (including the consult) and 12 hours of inking later, we are ALL DONE. 

Here is a Flickr set of the whole process. 

Anda coupleVines.

By Cecelia Altamirano at Seventh Son in San Francisco.

Birdknee, making the rounds again.

Cecelia says people keep bringing this photo to her (other artists tell her the same) and want my exact tattoo.
That’s gauche as hell and any respectable tattoo artist is going to flat tell you No.

Don’t do that, tumblr & pintrest. Get your own lovely tattooes.

(Though, my deep and morbid curiosity demands you show me your copy, should you have found a tattooer to attempt a replication).