April Marching into May

Last Friday, I spotted this tattoo on Seventh Avenue in the 20's:April was happy to stop and chat about her black and gray tattoo which was a gift from her boyfriend on her 27th birthday.The piece is fairly straight forward - cherry blossoms bloom in late March/early April. Her birthday is in March and her name is April.For that alone these traditional tattoo flowers seemed appropriate for

Grace's Black and Gray Koi

I met Grace earlier this week outside of Penn Station. She has three stars tattooed on the inside of her right wrist and had a cherry blossom (above) inked on the back of her neck.About a year ago, she expanded it, adding the koi fish below it:She attributed the work to an artist named Kevin, and he did in it in a small shop in Koreatown in Manhattan.Grace says that the tattoo is purely

Tattoorism: Sean Stops by To Unveil More Amazing Work

A month ago, I posted a bit of tattoorism; Sean from New Jersey sent me photos of his left leg, an intricate Japanese-style piece, complete with koi, dragons, a lotus, and a pagoda.Sean has been kind enough to update us here on Tattoosday with two more pieces, the first being this cool gypsy head that is tattooed on the inside of his upper left arm:As he was in the last post, Sean is not only