Lily and Skittle

I have two dogs that I adore. They are Boxer-Malinois mixes and they fill our lives with joy. Several years ago, I asked Saiph to draw me a tattoo of the two of them, so I could get them tattooed on my shoulder opposite of Ashke (which she also drew). Yesterday, I got them put on my body.

Saiph’s art work from a couple of years ago.

Mom went with me and confirmed the placement of the art on my arm.

Lily was on top with Skittle set a little off to one side on the bottom.

Saiph actually drew it as two separate pieces and then I put them together to form the final shape.

This is my fifth tattoo and it hurt. It hurt more than the one I had done of Ashke.

The top of Lily’s ear was exceedingly painful.

I used the same artist that did Tristan’s half sleeve.

She took Saiph’s drawing and traced it into a frame work for the tattoo.

This is the art on my arm after the lines were finished.

On the table waiting for the fill work to get started.

I had also sent her actual pictures of the dogs in the sunshine so she would have a really good idea of what they looked like.

Last thing I wanted was to have the dogs not look like themselves or Saiph’s drawing.

The artist also had to work around my smallpox vaccine scar and a mole. She positioned the stencil so that the amount of the tattoo effected by those two skin imperfections was minimal.

Saiph’s response when I sent her the pic was “OMG IT’S JUST LIKE MY DRAWINGS”