Kelly was an existing Zealand Tattoo client who had a tattoo piece completed of a small dragon.

For her next tattoo design with Zealand Tattoo, and the featured work as depicted, Kelly decided to have tattoo design brainstorming session with tattoo artist, Zane.  As a result of Kelly consulting with Zealand Tattoo – she was informed on the benefits of ‘timeless’ art styles (such as Oriental Tattoo Art) and the Japanese Tiger tattoo design was selected as the subject matter.

Photo # 1 depicts the preliminary sketch of the Japanese Tiger tattoo design that Kelly wanted to have tattooed on her left side.

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Photo # 2 shows the final Tattoo piece that was entitled “Tattoo by Zane” and was one of five of Zane’s Tattoos which were photographed from the South Island New Zealand Tattoo Expo. All five tattoos were published and featured in the Australian Tattoo Magazine.

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Photo # 3 shows the 2006 South Island New Zealand Tattoo Expo Award that tattoo artist, Zane won for ‘Best Female Side’ at the Christchurch Expo

Dan came into our Studio with the idea of having the Metallica “Justice for All” Album cover tattooed on his arm (Statue of Liberty holding Justice scales – signifying the balance between good & evil, life & death etc) . After an initial Consultation and Art Brainstorming session, Zane recommended that we approach the piece as an Oriental style Tattoo design.

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The design has a tree on the upper arm area, in autumn colours that represents dying or the death side of the cycles of life.

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This is another view of the autumn tree coming out of a rock formation

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This is a side profile of the tree which is effectively ‘drooping’ down the arm, the rocks to a waterfall feature below

Jen emailed us from Australia with a request to have us design a Phoenix Tattoo for her foot. She had attached a ‘typical’ Tribal style of Phoenix Image as an art reference and given our ‘aversion’ to more fad orientated Tattoo art styles – we searched our archives for a fuller, more stylised design picture. The end result was that of Zane constructing this Phoenix design piece with an aspect of ornamental flow. The Tattoo design was free-handed on and then applied to Jen’s foot.