A couple days ago, I went and got the tattoo along my spine touched up and the artist and I got to talking about a couple recent news stories about tattooing. 

The first was about a guy in California that held down his 7yr old son while another gang member tattooed a gang sign on the kid’s hip.  From my understanding, the guy could have faced a life sentence if the judge determined the tattoo was a permanent and painful disfigurement.  Instead he faces up to seven year in prison for cruel and inhumane treatment of a child.  The tattoo is now being removed.  Read more »

I got the rest of my new tribal spine tattoo filled in last night. The next step is to go over the existing wolf tattoo to blend it better in to the new work and to have the blacks match.

Yesterday I went and had the first session for my new tattoo done along my spine.  This is what was done in two hours.  I am hoping one more two hour session for the rest of the new tattoo to be completed and then one last session to go back over the existing back tattoo.  The existing needs to be done so the blacks match since it is faded and the to blend it more into the new one.

Overall, it wasn’t so bad.  For the most part, the same as the over tattoos I have gotten.  There were a couple times that I was surprised I didn’t squirm when the artist was filling in right over the bone of my spine.  At one point I could feel the vibrations of the needles throughout my rib cage.  Not the most pleasant feeling.

I am still trying to figure out what I want to do with the rest of the back.  I have thought out text like a verse or something.  Or even expanding out from the tribal spine into tribal ribs that wrap around the front.  Now that would be interesting.