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Posted by admin on July 9, 2008

Once you decide that you would like to join the lifestyle of collecting body art your selection process is the most critical. The reason for this is that as I am sure you know Tattoos are permanent for life. Yes they do remove Tattoos with Laser surgery, however more often than not that is a very long and painful process far more painful than getting Tattooed in the first place and it can also leave scars that are less eye appealing than your Tattoo.

Therefore it is critical that you search your heart and soul for just the right Tattoo design. Be true to yourself, do not get something that you think others will like. After all you are the collector that will live with your decision for a life time. I know that when I got my first mark at just seventeen I got it for all the wrong reasons and picked the wrong design.

My first Tattoo was to impress my Dad and show him that I was now a man. He had over a dozen Tattoos so I thought by getting one myself he would respect me as a man. He took me to the local Tattoo shop and I looked through thousands of flash and I settled on what I thought was cool but not really giving it much thought if it matched my personality. After the artist had finished I complained that he had changed all the colors without asking me first and he just said he thought it looked better that way and I disagreed. My Dad told me it was to late now and maybe the next time I would not be such a baby and watch as it was being done and I could be sure I got what I wanted.

Well some thirty plus years later it had faded enough that I was able to use a world renowned artist to cover it with a bigger Tattoo more to my liking and more to my personality. However depending on how large you go with the original mark you may not be able to cover it later. Therefore unlike me back then, be sure the mark is exactly what you want. I now have a completely different out-look on the selection process.

Starting with my full back piece and continuing with my full frontal piece I have gone theme base. For example my back is done in exotic birds and tropical plants with bird of paradise flowers, while my full front panel is all Native American Heritage. All of which is not only Tattooed on my body but is also part of who I am inside my soul.

During your selection process also consider the style that you want to use as well. As an example my back piece is done in both Grayscale and Bold Bright Colors. This contrast in style was done to make the Birds and the Bird of Paradise Flowers stand out more to attract a viewers attention quickly. It also worked well in competition, taking a second place and third place finish, as well as finding its way into Tattoo Magazine in April 2001. The Native American Heritage of my front panel is done in all bold colors.

Have your Tattoo Design Selection mean something to you from deep in your heart and soul and you will always be happy with your choice. Going with trends or fads is a mistake since next week, next month, or next year the trend or fad will change but your mark is forever.

Though there really is only three types of Tattoo Designs there are many more styles of art to express those designs. The designs would be Flash Art, Custom Art, or a combination of the two. Both my front panel and full back piece are made up of a combination of Flash and Custom Art. Take your body art collection serious and be true to yourself. It really is no different than a person that collects Norman Rockwell paintings except that your collection is on your body and is yours for life.

In closing I can not repeat myself enough that your Tattoo Design Selection is most critical and of course be sure to select a reputable artist as well. It really does not matter whether you go with Flash Art, Custom Art, or a combination of both, nor does it matter what style of artistic expression you use as long as you are true to yourself and do not think about what others would like but just what expresses the real you in the art.

Copyright © 2008 Roy J. Keller (All Rights Reserved)

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Posted by admin on June 16, 2008

Today’s post is a slide show of my current Tattoo collection and also a slide show of my wife and her Tattoo collection. I am also going to make a permanent page entitled slide shows so these two slide shows will always be easily accessible. Please enjoy the show!!

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Posted by admin on June 14, 2008

I just wanted to let you know that I have now added a Favorites page to this site. You can get to that page by simply clicking on the Favorites tab at the top of the page.

What you will find there is a list of membership websites that offer designs to their members and you will also find websites that just sell designs.

Ladies there is something special there for you. Just for the ladies!! Check it out!

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Posted by admin on June 13, 2008

Copyright © 2008 Roy J. Keller (All Rights Reserved)

How I divert the pain of being tattooed. I should start by giving you a little history about my collection and how it got started. I first became interested in the fine art of tattooing when I was a young boy and I seen all the art that my dad had on his arms, chest, back and stomach. By the time I was a senior in high school I felt I was ready for my first “mark”. So one weekend my dad took me and a few of my friends to a nearby town in upstate New York that had a tattoo artist.

I was the only minor amongst the group so my dad had to sign for me. I got that mark on my right forearm and at that time I thought it was very painful but I could not let my dad know this for he would have told the artist to stop and I could return when I became a man to have it finished so I just looked away and let it happen. After that first experience I had done a lot of reading about the art of tattooing and made up my mind that some day I would have a full body suit with my personal exceptions, ie, no ink on the neck, head, hands, feet, or those personal and private areas of my body.

Over the next couple of years I had gotten six more on my arms and then for no apparent reason I had a dry spell of about ten years. Then one day I seen a show on TV about the history of tattooing and I thought what ever happen to my dream of covering the biggest part of my whole body. So I set out to find just the right designs to do just that. And quite by accident I came upon a method to divert the pain and I was anxiously wanting to try it out. So I traveled to the city and found a shop that I had seen in tattoo magazines and I picked a piece of flash and I had the artist place it on the inside of my right forearm and the method work like a gem.

Now for the method and how I happen upon it. I had recently remarried and after awhile my new wife asked if I would like to share a child with her and of course I said yes. However I did have one condition to having a child, and that would be only if she would agree to natural childbirth so that I could be in the delivery room and take part in the entire birth. Since my first wife had refused and I had to spend my time sitting in the fathers room until the nurse brought my son to me. She said she would have it no other way.

So when she became pregnant our family doctor set us up with Lamaze Childbirth classes and my method had come to light. I figured if the techniques that we had learned could help her give birth through all that pain then surely it could help me get through a tattoo. Believe me when I say that she and that baby both went through a tremendous amount of trauma and pain they did since our son was born breech. The techniques of slow relaxing breathing, focusing on one thing other than the birth and pain, and in general putting yourself in a happy place as they called it really was amazing at diverting pain.
Once I began to practice it I found myself able to find a metaphoric meditation state of sorts. You know like I was somewhere else rather than where I really was. As fate may have it’s way in ones life from time to time my wife and I parted ways and my art work was once again put on the back burner. I did get a couple small arm pieces over the next few years just to feed the addiction of needing to be inked.

Thirteen years passed and I found myself getting married to the worlds greatest wife and tattoo lover that I am still married to today. During that thirteen years I had found just the perfect piece to create my full back piece, now I just needed to find the right artist to do the job. We met and became friends with a world renowned artist, Debbie Lenz, and she has now become the artist we use exclusively, by appointment only and pay by the hour. She gets $125.00 per hour and up, depending on the amount of fine detail in the art work. She completed my full back piece in just over 22 hours over seven sittings and my full front panel,(chest,sternum,and stomach), in just over 26 hours over five sittings.

The back was the easiest for me since I have a bad back and I was able to slow my breathing very low and closed my eyes to make my focal point the humming of the needles and the vibrations I felt in the back muscles as opposed to the pricking of the needles and I actually went to sleep from what I felt to be therapeutic massage instead of pain. The first session that I feel asleep during Deb actually woke me up to be sure that I was alright. I told her that I was fine but now she would need to just sit quietly and speak softly to my wife while I got back to my happy place, she laughed and in a few moments we were going at again and I fell back to sleep.

Now when I was having my front panel done well that was another story, no sleeping here. We sectioned off the chest piece so that it would look fine by itself so that I could get it finished and healed to compete in an upcoming expo. To finish on time we needed to do one ten hour session, which left me with the worlds worse headache that only sleep would cure. Turned out that the judges were smarter than I had planned since they could tell that it was not at least six months healed which is the rule of competition. That was the next to last competition I have ever entered since I really hate shaving off all my body hair so the judges can get a better look.

My full back piece has placed second and third in different shows but I only entered my front panel once after that first time and I have not even gone to an expo in years. At an expo in Pittsburgh my full back piece did not win but it did make it into Tattoo Magazine in the April 2001 edition on page 37, the page number is in the palm of my hand and it is the picture in the lower right hand corner of the page. Not going to any shows really is not fair to my wife since she has a very beautiful custom design half sleeve which she has never entered in a show. When she gets tattooed I play the part of Lamaze coach and help keep her focused to divert her pain. These simple techniques of relaxation and focusing on one subject other than the pain do require practice and concentration but they work fantastically for the both of us. I feel that anyone that can master these techniques will no doubt divert a lot of their pain and or totally eliminate it.

In closing I hope that these techniques will help anyone seeking their first tattoo or even some one that has many. Just practice the techniques and give it a try what do you have to loose if you plan to get inked anyway. I know that once I have the funds to connect the works on my arms to make full sleeves and have Deb do my legs I for one will be using them once again.

As for all the mothers out there that get tattooed you may already know these techniques very well so you just need to apply what you know. If any mom or expectant parents, mom & dad would like to see the new ways of Lamaze just go to http://www.lamaze.org/Default.asp .

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