Bernini was a Bust

So yesterday I had an appointment to make this amazing tattoo based on a Bernini bust. Was feeling better and with a successful day of tattooing under my belt on Tuesday I figured I was good to go.

I won’t get into graphic details, but suffice it to say that I was very very wrong. I made it most of the way into the shop before I started getting sick and made it to the shop only to wind up curled up on the floor of the bathroom with a pillow. (Brought to me by Starr and for the record a BRILLIANT idea! No one has ever brought me a pillow when I was sick on the bathroom floor. Should it ever happen again I will try to make sure I have one at my disposal.)

So no Bernini bust. Client was super understanding, but I was disappointed. When I finally made it back to my house I reached out to my appointments for today to let them know that I wouldn’t be able to tattoo them today.

Super bummed, but for the best as I am still not feeling 100% and my thought has always been that I would rather disappoint someone for not tattooing them then disappoint them with a less than stellar tattoo.

I got through my email and a few other projects that I had to work on at the shop. I wanted to spend some time doing something that felt more productive than answering emails.

I have had this “fake skin” at the shop for a while now. I bought it to see if it would be good for working with to teach people techniques for the medical tattooing. I gave it a go today. Unfortunately it does not work well to approximate skin and the colors take completely differently on it than on skin so it wouldn’t even be good for color theory.

I did things to this fake skin that would be HORRIBLE if they were done to a real live human being. I had to go way more drastic with the colors than I would with a person. It was an interesting experiment anyhow and was worth trying. (Keep learning, keep pushing.)

Here are the results: