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.

Following is the story of Linzi’s Oriental Maori Crossover Art piece. We emphatically believe and predict that an emerging future Art style that will rapidly gain prominence is Oriental Maori Crossover!!

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Linzi (and her mother Carol) and had been looking at the Zealand Tattoo Website for 2 years and finally decided to make Email contact in order to have us design an Oriental piece built around her existing Maori Tattoo. Zane carried out an initial Email Consultation during which Linzi sent through this Dragon image she had located on the Net.

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Zane designed this preparatory sketch based on Linzi’s Art reference

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This photo depicts the start of the Oriental Tattoo Design application where the sketch has been used as a basis to freehand on the Japanese Dragon and the “extensions” to the Korus, within the existing Ta Moko piece.

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This next image shows where Linzi’s Oriental Dragon design with surrounding Maori Tattoo design has been Powerlined (outlined).

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The inclusion of detail and shading brings us to the end result at this stage – however please note that this Tattoo is not as yet finished and will require at least two more sittings.

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This next photo simply gives another angle on the piece that shows more of the Oriental Dragon’s body together as it weaves around the extended Maori Korus and design ’sweeps’.

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This photo angle provides yet another view and reveals the Oriental  Tattoo design that has flowed over to Linzi’s upper arm

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This view shows the position of the Japanese Dragon’s head that has flowed over to the upper arm.