Hi, I have booked my first 4 hour session for a Religious Sleeve, My artist wants me to take him references before we start.
I am thinking of having a life like Jesus as the center peice with clouds, sunrays and shading to start off. This will be on the upper arm.
Looking for any Ideas for what else I can include and also If there are any good websites available to find pictures or paintings of religious images. Any help Welcome, Thanks Scott B! 😮
you could probably try photobucket, google, ummm just a plain ole word search may turn up something.
religion doesn’t come into my tatts to often (I design my own) but from what you are describing yours will look pretty cool. Make sure you post before, during and after pics! I’m curious to see what you come up with
Hi
This site has some great ink for inspiration on religious tattoos
http://www.religioustattoos.net/Other_Tattoos/index.php
You could also consider the art by Thomas Blackshear perhaps his most famous is the ‘Forgiven’ oil on canvas
http://purgatorio1.com/wp-content/pics/forgiven.jpg
Just as a side note the hands are deliberately larger than normal as this represents the fact that Christ had the strength to carry the weight of the sins of all those around him.
The hammer and nail is the fact that everytime the guy pictured does something wrong he is metaphysically driving it into the flesh of Christ who still supports him (out of love) and the lilies obviously represent the death and resurrection through blood.
Even as a person who is Jewish I find the piece to be very moving artistically and philisophically.
Take Care
Matthew
Hay all, thanks very much for your help in this thread, it had a big influence in what I chose to get.
Last tuesday I finally got my first sitting for my religious sleeve, 4 and a half hours later I am delighted with how it has turned out.
After all the great help and fantastic ideas I got on here I finally Decided to go for the S.t Michael slaying the Devil idea.
My next sitting will be to add clouds above with sun beams coming down and also a cliff edge at the bottom.
Here is a pic of it so far.
Thanks again for help so far folks, will be asking for more ideas for the sleeve in the future 😀
(I am clueless what to have inside and at the back of the hand) lol
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