Fabian Ciraolo meets Frida Kahlo

I love, love, love Fabian Ciraolo's modern interpretations of historical rebels. They all wear great clothes, listen to hipster bands, and have lots of tattoos.
My absolute favourite is the one he did of one of my heroes: Frida Kahlo. Even though he put her in modern clothes, she still has that Frida Kahlo ''air''. She's still wearing her flower ornaments in her hair, has her characteristic eyebrows (or uni-brow actually ;D), is still wearing red nail polish (even though in his pic it's on long fake nails) and is smoking: something she apparently really liked doing..

I am still thinking about getting Frida tattooed on me.. Probably on my right fore-arm, above the other tattoo I have there. Problem is; I haven't found to right picture of her yet. I'd like it to be very colourful.. That's all I know. Do I want a tattoo of one of her self-portraits, or do I want a photo-realistic tattoo of an actual photo of her? I even thought about asking a tattoo artist who's style I like to make his/her own interpretation of Frida and her style.. But I'm afraid I won't like what they come up with since I am so focused on it representing Frida and what she made and stood for.

Opinions or suggestions? I'm happy to hear them! X Puck

Helen Brown copy III

Here's another sketch I did after a tattoo by Helen Brown (drawing on the right). I changed the scarf. The original had a different, more elaborate scarf because it was part of a bigger tattoo (or so it seemed to be). The drawing on the left is just an exercise in ''cliché-traditional-swallows-with-banners''.

Art Deco and Henry VIII

Gorgeous Art Deco / Roaring Twenties inspired tattoo. Again; couldn't find the tattooist's name unfortunately. Anyway, I love how the tattooist used a minimal variety of colours (mainly black, white, grey and gold/yellow). The colours fit the design so well!
The second picture is an amazing 16th century / Henry VIII inspired painting made by London-based Italian tattoo artist Claudia de Sabe. How I wish I could get tattooed by her some day..!

Roaring Twenties #2

Here's a drawing I did after a tattoo I found on the internet. Unfortunately I couldn't find the tattooist's name. I'd love to see more of his/her work, so if anyone knows who made this design, please let me know! ;)
The colours of the actual tattoo are much darker than the ones in my drawing, because skin's darker than white paper - obviously. The colours in my drawing are darker than in the pic by the way. I took the picture in our kitchen and the light there is really... pale.

Roaring Twenties #1

Hi everybody! I haven't published anything for about a month, sorry about that! I've been quite busy the last couple of weeks, so I haven't really had time to draw. However I did do a traditional tattoo inspired drawing of a ''roaring twenties'' girl. As you can see I tried to keep everything as bold and minimalistic as possible (well, the colours at least). I want the hair to stay white, but I still don't know what colour to give to the hair ornaments. I kind of like it this way, but it seems a bit too white. Like I forgot to colour it or something... Ideas? Opinions? Please let me know!

(P.S. I know the quality of the picture isn't too great, with the tile floor showing and all. Plus, you can hardly see her skin colour (light pink). When it's finished I'll make a better pic..!)