Mostly because I wanted Kokopelli to be singing a song about something. I thought long and hard about it. This is my bassist tattoo and I didn’t just want another bass clef tattoo or a sleeve with a bass clef as the center piece. Infact the bass clef is a very small part of the tattoo. I am also a fan of crypto zoology (I also have a Sasquatch tattoo) and after thinking I was like, well…Kokopelli is mischievous trickster as well as fertility god so I decided I can combine two things I like. Music and adventure. I mostly like crypto-zoology because to me things like Sasquatch pretty much represents the unknown, undiscovered and adventurous parts of nature that I enjoy so much.

Edit: Hey Amok! Nice avatar! Buckethead is the man. He and Claypool (C2B3 anyone? 😀 ) are among my favorite musicians. Claypool inspired a lot of this tattoo actually…Not directly I just would have ended up as another guitarist had I not been introduced to Primus when I was first learning the guitar.

I got the rest of the outline done today. I’m pretty happy with it. Super excited to color it.

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There is a shop here in Stillwater, Ok called College Ink. Artist there named Matt has done all of my tattoos. He is great!

Yeah El Chupacabra is The Goat Sucker. I believe he was first “spotted” in puerto rico actually. Back then he was a more alien creature instead of the rabbid dog/racoon/coyote/vermin he tends to be now.

Thanks for all the complements!

Yep its my design. My boss gave me a pen pad a few months ago. I took a picture of one of my basses and traced over it and made it the red and orange color then I drew kokopelli around it. My first pen pad drawing and it wasn’t the best but I loved it and my inker made it way awesome on my flesh!

Here is the original design.

Thanks!

Yeah I am kinda spoilt with the television but we keep it on mute and have some background music. Will probably either watch seven samurai/there will be blood with les claypool playing in the background or go with a claypool dvd. I’ll be sure and get some arnold palmers to drink and some rice crispy treats. Fuck yeah. Make some home made ones with captain crunch in it as well. Brings me back to my stoner days.

Well I think I gots it pretty much figured out guys, Thanks for all the posotive feedback!

Thanks for all the positive reply fellas. I’m really digging itthe more I see it with my other leg tattoo. They got similar color schemes and I’m already begining to think of what to fill in the space between my foot and calf with. After my first color tattoo (calf one) I dunno if I can do another solid color tat. Although my black tattoo is still my favorite because of what it
means to me.

Yeah I’ll post pics as I get them. I don’t have any of the designs drawn out except for kokopelli or I’d post them but what I can do is decribe them. 😀 The next one is going to be in the style of those Jesus/Darwin/Evolve/Etc, etc…Fish. Only its going to be of a Coelacanth! I’m not sure where to place it yet. In my head it just screams forearm but I don’t want any visible tattoos considering I might be a teacher when all is said and done with college. I’d hate to wear long sleeves everyday. The one after that is going to be a cave drawing style muddy left hand print on the middle of my upper back and then I’m getting this on my upper right arm.

If you don’t recognize it that is taken from the journals of Charles Darwin. Its the first drawing of the evolutionary tree of life. Mine wont have any of the letters or numbers on it though, just the tree.
Then after all that I’ll finally get my artist to draw out a decent version of old Kokopelli