Tattoos??

[Mountainman]

I've got 4, my 2 daughter's names with designs, firts is a shamrock, then a parrot, a celtic knot on my back and my crossed rifles on my left arm, i'll post some pics later as i am at work and don't have my pics here!

[Nerts]

I got this done in October, and the picture was taken pretty much as soon as she was done. It's Kanji for 'breathe' and if you look close you can see that she made it look like brushstrokes.

My girlfriend got one on her back of a dragon surrounded by the four elements. She wont let me post pictures though.

E.

[Colin]

Upper back


Right arm


Left Arm (not the best pic)

[Raphael]

My Upper back

[Dirk Skene]

I'm still trying to get the courage to visit this Guy....

I looked at his work. He does some of the most beautiful gray work I have ever seen. If you decide to get marked, he 'da man!

Unless of course you can afford a trip over here & make an appointment with Bradley

[Dirka Skene]

I designed all except for one of my tattoos.

This is the orchid I have tattooed on my left hip.


Luna moth


My dragon fly on the backside of my right hip.


A tribute to my mother (RIP April 22, 2003). The birthstone in the flower is her's and the others represent me and my sisters and brother.


I handed my tattoo artist $50 and told him to, "Just do something."


This is my husband's Celtic cross that I designed. It's not finished yet as you can see.

[Tattoo Bradley]

Unless of course you can afford a trip over here & make an appointment with Bradley

Thank your for the kind words. But, that guy has me whooped.

I have no problem admitting that.

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

Well, I can't really compete with the prior pictures, but I have to join in anyway.

This picture is not very close up, but here's one of my two tats. I need to get it freshened up-very blurry around the edges after 15 years. It's the Ethic Dog Tag symbol (a free dog tag company, that I believe is no longer in business). The butterfly has a dog, cat, some birds and and an orca worked into the design.



Be well,

[Riverkilt]

Well, this olde geezer has a few too. Don't have good shots since my gallery isn't for tattoos and we can't upload anymore. So use your imagination.



My full back sea turtle...a lot of hours in that one.



Chest is a Scottish heart surrounded by 12 arrowheads.

Think I've posted some of the other tats. Bottom line, they all have strong spiritual (not religious) meaning for me and honor parts of my life experience.

I too am a slave to the needle and can well understand giving my artist $50 and saying "Do something."

Always thought there was a market to use tattoo needles on folks without the ink...just to activate the endorphins or whatever it is that makes the tattooing process feel sooooo good....except the sternum of course...

Ron

[RK-REX]

(posted before elsewhere)

Not Celtic, but I've got a few. My first was when I turned 18, the head of the wolf. I wanted a tattoo since I was a child. My father had several tattoos from his military service and I used to make my own with markers when i was a kid. He was violently taken from us and this world when I was 11 and I did this as a tribute to him and to help me heal a bit.



I drew the wolf as a pencil drawing in a high school art class and it's on my mom's wall back home. He symbolizes one who's alone in partial darkness, he has the light of the moon and he's accepting of that and feels safe and loved, but he's without part of his life. The light that makes the next day of his life complete. Sort of one parent guiding, nurturing and doing a fine job to boot (I'll love and admire her forever for it) but still not the full guidance of a father figure. The howl is a call to regroup the pack and to be a whole family again.

The arm band was added 13 years later and is also of my own hand. I had finished a messy divorce the year before. Spent a year of very reckless self destructive behavior. Wine, women and song with a few fast motorcycles thrown in for good measure....all in extreme excess trying to figure out why my ex left me for another man and to alleviate the pain with the thrill. Anyway, I met a woman that I fell in love with and she gave me a reason to give a rat's **** again. A reason to get back on an at least somewhat normal path (thus the paw prints) in life. There was still wine, song and bikes, but all in moderation and only ONE woman. So I wanted something to remind me of what I'd been through, survived and was headed in the right direction again.

When I next have time, there is a small spot where the paths start about an inch wide on the back of my arm. That is going to have a very small angel in it someday to symbolize our son.

Here's one that is in the middle of Lynn's back. I never did find out the story behind it now that I'm thinking about it, I'll have to ask her.