I know, I’ve been pretty much AWOL for a short while as I’ve been madly working for an exam which is now thankfully out the way!

Thanks so much! You’ve made me feel a bit more confident about it now. I just have this image of some self proclaimed expert coming up to me on the street and telling me my tattoo is wonky! But I’ll never regret it, I mean I have an official memorial tattoo that I got a week after she died, but this is now my most special out of all of the ones including that one that I have. I’ve been thinking and scrutinizing it and I think I’ll leave the top of it alone, perhaps add some flourishy detail but nothing much, but considering going down to my elbow with friezes based on the Sophilos Dinos wrapped around my arm, do you know that vase? Some of the procession then above and below just some of the patterns from it. Do you think that would work as a tattoo? It’s black figure but there are some in white so I’m not sure what I’d do with that, and also not sure whether I would keep the names of the figures written down the side of them as they appear on the vase or not. Hmm anyway something to think about! Thank you again!

Yeah it was the wedding procession of Peleus and Thetis. I wouldn’t get anything like the whole procession on as my arms are quite skinny (although the above two photos makes them look so fat!), it would just have to be the front part, and then my thoughts were to have the centre detail section of the frieze below underneath it and the thin decorative frieze above it, which would bring it down to about my elbow, and then take another vase image and put it at the back of the writing I have to bring it into an almost half sleeve (though not quite, as it wouldn’t all be connected and it wouldn’t cover my shoulder). Will be thinking about it for a good while as the rest of my back is the next project which will take a while to afford! But call it a piece in the pipeline!