The Human Canvas - MORE Mixing Matching Michelle!

So...

Michelle.

This shot is from our first session. 

The Egyptian work across the top of her back, 

and the flowers across her lower back were already there. 

I provided the Thunder Bird. 

Now, these things will 

generally be gone after about three 

washings, but even after just a night of sleep,  

there's significant degradation. I always wanted to go 

back into one of these things the next day, 

but never really got - or rather - 

pursued the chance.

Until now.

THANK YOU Michelle... 

An experiment I've always wanted to try. 

So - this next shot is what it looked like after a

night of sleep - some of it onto a black t-shirt, some

onto the sheets - fair warning

having been given.

So with just a quick touch-up of the purple...

...And the red and yellow wing-tips,

and that's pretty much matched up with the 

vibrancy of the original tattoos. At least for a zoomed 

out shot like this one.

Problem is - with the fading of color,

you also get degradation of detail. And when

you go in with the black to replace it, the color is

once again too bold to match up with the

original tattoos - which was part of

the POINT of this session.

But there IS a way around that. We'll address that shortly.

Meantime, in addition to the Thunder bird,

she was game for letting me add a

drawn flower to the

tattooed ones. 

Well, three.

Okay - Six.

Now once again, while the flowers

turned OUT well, they were - like the Thunder bird -

now more bold than the

real tattoos.

 but ya take this, and ya powder it down...

(ordinary setting powder)

And everything now has the same TONE,

And ready for a few nice shots.

Only thing - a couple lines on the

Thunder bird ended up crooked. There was

SOMEthing keeping me from straightening them,

without the line getting thicker

and thicker.

Also, I coulda extended some of the

dark lines of the drawn flowers into the areas

of the tattooed ones.

Just a bit.

It's okay though we were both

quite happy with the results of this

session - and there'll be another in the future.

This is one of several in the works that have to do with adaptation with a real tattoo.

 

But I also had to dash.

Believe it or not, I had another session

lined up for that night (which turned out to be two)

and so I ran off after finishing this bemoaning

that I wasn't allowing myself just

another 20 minutes (or so).

But what I ran off to do

became something REALLY cool.

That'll be published next.

I also JUST got through doing

fourteen pieces during a music festival for

autism awareness and education. That'll be

coming soon as well, so please,

check back.

But thanks for coming by this time around.

And you can follow the whole Human canvas story through a few tabs near the top of this page.