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A Piece of SkinA Piece of Skin

The tattoo is nothing awesome to behold, yet its sheer beauty lies in its simplicity.  Its location: smack dab in the center of the lower back, in the hollow, in the shallow hanging valley above the crevasse.  The tattoo glows when caribou migrate in the frozen wastes of the north, but not when you give talking cats a bowl of heavy cream during a blue moon.
I should know because I inked it, and the person who commissioned the work is now lying on my living room floor: dead.

I look out the window and suddenly realize that I am out of ink.  No one knows my plight better than the mice and cockroaches that dwell with me.  I t

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After the pink tumbling octopi, I moved on to Cthulhu in miniature as an antidote to all that pink.

Micron pens, brush pen, and ZIG colored pens, 3.5" x 2.5"
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=teddybearcholla Jul 16, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
mmm...I see little pink eyes...I think there is a pink guy underneath this one!!! :D :giggle:
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~squidink Jul 16, 2011
Ah, pink has a way of being insidious :laughing:...sneaky little hue!:iconrestlessrain:

Thank you very much and for the :+fav: too!:hug:
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=teddybearcholla Jul 24, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Yes it does!! :lol: You're welcome!! :hug:
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*rachaelm5 Jul 15, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
LOL LOL - That is quite an antidote. I dig the textures!
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~squidink Jul 16, 2011
Thank you! At one moment during the coloring, I had a crazy urge to go pink...:O
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=altergromit Jul 15, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
...It is a bit small.... :( ...I like it but I cannot see that much of details.... :(
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~squidink Jul 15, 2011
No problems, Anna, would you like a larger image since I seem to find myself squinting at it too? :) I'll go ahead then. :D
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=altergromit Jul 15, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Quat does it mean SQUINTING??!!??... :giggle: ...It would be great to see it better! :nod: :hug:
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~squidink Jul 15, 2011
That's when you kind of close your eyes but leave them open a tiny bit to focus on something that may be too small or far away to see clearly...I think that's what I've been doing.:lol: I shouldn't post things late at night when my brain isn't working properly!:laughing:
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=altergromit Jul 15, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
...Oh, it sounds good! :iconbrainplz: :giggle: ;) :hug:
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