I woke up this morning with quite a surprise… Tattoos In Flight has been featured in the blog at Needled, one of the (if not THE) best and most well-known sites on highbrow tattoo culture out there! Marisa at Needled was nice enough to even post the entire “essay-like” backgrounder I sent to her. Thanks!
Needled is an amazing site, with lots of content including some great videos… and if you haven’t visited, please do so!
So if you are visiting via Needled, welcome!
Artist Jen Clinch Guertin of Anchor Steam Tattoo in Newport, RI designed this retro Space scene on a forearm.
Got a space or flight related tattoo? Send it to us at tattoosinflight@gmail.com.
This past week I recorded a podcast with Court Miller and Max Flight at the Airplane Geeks Podcast. I was honored to be featured as their main interview in this edition, their third overall.
Take a listen at this link to the podcast post.
My interview is 20 minutes into the podcast, but take time and listen to their news and commentary before it… they do a great job and we look forward to hearing more from them!
Thanks to Nick from Liquid Courage Tattoo & Piercing in Omaha, NE for sending us this fantastic rib piece featuring a massive Boeing B-29 Superfortress formation and a rather sultry pin-up as well. The artist was Devin, co-owner of Liquid Courage, an all custom tattoo studio that also happens to be Omaha’s oldest custom studio as well!
Have any flight and aviation related tattoos to showcase? Email us at tattoosinflight@gmail.com.
This week we are beginning our regular series, “Winged Wednesday” which highlights full-back tattoos of wings.
This week we feature the work of “Tony the Tattoo Guy” at skINStAIN? Tattoo Co. in St. Petersburg, FL. The wings above were a cover-up of an earlier tattoo of smaller wings and the detail can be seen in the photo at the right… click on the photo for a larger view.
Have a flight related tattoo you want to share? Email us at tattoosinflight@gmail.com!
Artist Don Jewell sends us this great WWII pinup / P-51 Mustang collaboration this week. Don is located at Artistic Creations Tattoo in Sacramento, CA.
Thanks to C.W. Eldridge of the Tattoo Archive in Winston-Salem, NC, we recieved this fantastic bit of aviation flash coming from the Zeis Studio from the 1940’s. Milton Zeis from Rockford, IL was a well-known artist and tattoo supplier in the 1940’s and was also known for the “Zeis School of Tattooing”, a home study course started in 1951. Zeis was also the founder of the International Tattoo Club.
Thanks again to C.W. and make sure to visit the fantastic Tattoo Archive if you are in the area. Be sure to catch the new exhibit “Tattoos In Advertising” at the Archive from July 1 to September 30.
It’s hard to believe this is the wearers first tattoo… but according to artist Daniel “Wes” Wesley, it was! Looks like an Me-262 at the bottom with a P-40 soaring above. The color is fantastic, but looking at Wes’ portfolio, I’d expect nothing less!
Wes is based in Columbus, OH - take a look at his site at http://www.wescoreart.com.
It can’t be easy to tattoo an airplane on a small area like a lower arm, with the straight lines of an airplane curving around the body. However, artist Greg Larson from Black Pearl Tattoo of Kenosha, WI does it perfectly with this colorful tattoo of a P-40 Warhawk.
The classic aggressive sharks mouth of the P-40 are illustrated well here! Click the photo to see a larger version for detail… and make sure to visit Black Pearl Tattoo to see more.
Allie from Mesa, AZ sent us this great shot of her P-51 Mustang dogfight tattoo on the side of her ribs and stomach. She had it done at Compass Rose Studios in Fallbrook, CA by artist and friend Bluez.
Being very patriotic, Allie says she got the tattoo to honor the military and intends for her future tattoo work to do the same. She also said she was named after the Allison engine, the first engine on the P-51, so it was even more fitting!
