a fair of fire-lizards

[ironymaiden]

Saturday i had the first session for my new tattoo (it will probably take around 12 hours all told). i had a grand time*, and it looks and feels good so far. this is the inspiration:
[Elizabeth Malczynski Littman cover art for Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey; Art Nouveau influenced image of a woman playing pan pipes surrounded by delicate spindly miniature dragons, with stylized spiral waves of ocean water]
it's a sleeve of fire-lizards and spirals. we talked about trying to get all nine, but i am not a giant, so there will be five, which will at least get me all the canonical colors. right now i have blacklines for four. number five and the first background and color pass comes next month.




*we had a conversation about image transfers, and i talked about the smell and the sense-memory of getting ditto handouts in elementary school. she had assumed i was about 15 years younger than i am. Bless.

Comments

[lovelyangel]

Oooh! I loved that cover! This will be an awesome tattoo!

[oracne]

Oh WOW.

[umadoshi]

That trilogy got such gorgeous covers. I bet your tattoo will look incredible when it's done! *^^*

[flexagon]

I loved the fire lizards so much as a young reader -- this is going to be very cool.

[asakiyume]

I loved this series of covers and think this will make an excellent tattoo!

[varina8]

I remember those covers fondly. It will be beautiful.

Wow!

[ysabetwordsmith]

That is going to be so awesome. :D