Love it!! He took my idea and made it his own. His use of shading and detail is incredible. I got the right artists for this. And he ended up making the face a caricature of me from a picture. And his idea of the walkman monster creating the green glow was dope.
I will admit – seven hours in the chair was rough. The first 4 hours were OK, the 5th hour was transitional, the last 2 were brutal.
Gunnar is an awesome person. We talked alot. He liked the bottle of Pyrat Rum I gave him. He cracked it open and we took a shot in celebration. He was stoked with his own work. That’s a good thing coming from the artist.
His aftercare. Plastic tonight. Nothing tomorrow except a white t-shirt covering it. If I feel some tightening the next day then start applying Aquafor, and if not definately on Thursday.
Last night Gunnar’s piece had it’s first public showing at my local watering hole. Several people knew I was getting one and they were there last night, so they asked to see it.
In short, my eagle gets “nice tattoo” comments with undertones of “like thousand of others I see”. Last night I got “I’ve never seen anything like that before” and lots of “wows” and plenty of staring.
The money hurt. This whole experience cost a lot of it. But that’s irrelevant as what I got in return was priceless (to me anyways). So more than mission accomplished as that wasn’t my goal going in. Doing my homework and having patience (and a willingness to drive 800 miles for it) paid huge dividends.
Now I just wish the arm swelling would go down.
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