2011

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Merry New Year -

and Happy Hangover.

Wating for Demeter....

We like old sailor tattoos -
Ships, Pin Ups, Eagles and Anchors, no doubt - all classics.



Yesterday I visited one of our local tattoo shops, and noticed a lot of Flashes illustrated with pretty girls faces in profile, decorated with roses and banners with names of the loved ones.

I thought HEY! I gotta´ beat my own ONGO BONGO drum Flash #2..... and a pretty face will make a sweet flash #3

I think I´ll do this like the tattoo guy in the store, one take and only use a couple of hours.
I know this is only a flash on paper so I can´t really compete with the guy in the tattoo store - yet....


First of all! -
A lot of the name-banners in sailor tattoos, were not only about pretty girls, they also referred to ships.

And suddenly one particular ship poped in to my mind -
The DEMETRE...

The badass ship that transported Prins Vlad
(aka. "Dracool" 1431 - 1476) from Transylvania to London.
According to Bram Stoker

And that ship was of cause named after a pretty girl - Miss Demeter.
(aka) - also known as, Ceres..

That´s by the way - according to Greek mythology.

Demeter was the goddess of the harvest, who presided over grains, the fertility of the earth, and the seasons.


And whom dislike fertility, a goddess and Bike riding in August and September.

It´s just beautiful, and don´t get any better.
That´s why my tattoo Flash #3 is named DEMETER.

And can i those,(Yes we can...) then I take Opium flowers instead of roses...

First my sketches -

and color -

I created this flash is in one take. One idea, one sketch, and one hand-colored.
The classic old fashioned way, pencil and markers color, cause they are very fast to use.
And then a Blog post in the end, just for you....

Click on pic. to Enlarge

Look forward to make you all tattoo flashes next year.

Happy New Year

Cheers

Cay

Literature

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.

Quote: Robert Louis Stevenson

Imperial Standard of the Emperor of Russia
(1858–1917)

What Happens

Nothing happens until something moves.

-Albert Einstein

Let the LOVE DRUMS ring ding dong

To All of you out There -


Merry X-Mas my Freinds. This one for you.


May your holiday be filled with Ongo Bongo -
from the LOVE DRUMS of CONGO...


My latest Flash illustration #2 in a seria....

Waves

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold,
everything is softer and more beautiful.

Quote:Norman Vincent Peale

“Pretty please - with sugar on top”

Snow I Copenhagen -

Old bike in a garage -

And some sketches on my desk this evening.

With regards -

and a Fairytale F-you from Miss Fox....

Mr. Sailor Jerry 1911 - 1973

Norman "Sailor Jerry" Collins in his Honolulu shop Hawaii


Great inspiration and fun Flash art from Mr. Sailor Jerry
Volume 1,2 & 3


Beware of the cherry cocktails this holiday season...

Relax & Enjoy

WROOOOOOMMM

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Quote: Lin Yutang

Phone Dudel...

A lot of us do, others don´t .

Make phone dudels, while waiting or listening in the phone.
This is one of my old style dudels

Riiiiiiiiing Riiiiiinnnnnng -

This is one of my "new style" phone dudels


And a little color to spice it up - when bla bla bla blaaaaaaaaa bla bla...


All right! - see you later.....