Dragons, a Family Affair

It’s not often that you can say dragons run in your family.

Writing this post gave me pause. In looking back at the tattoos, I realize I can’t quite put an exact finger on the characters. While I initially thought dragons, the artwork is a very cool blend of snake, fire, dragons and human qualities.

While this is all very intimidating, if you were to run into such a creature in the wild, the backstory is anything but….

Tattoo’s have run in this family for generations. The grandfather and the father were both tattoo artists (see the homage below). I learned of this from the oldest son, who was kind enough to share these very cools tattoos he had. Four “heads of fire” , one for each sibling; himself, his sister and two younger brothers. A span of about 6 years between them all.

This sleeve of tattoos ran down his arm, which I captured in 3 photos. This first one being the top-most of the collage, the owner and oldest brother being depicted here looking right at you.

I have to say the shadowing and layering of the fire and figures is very well done once you take a second to admire it.

You can see the rest of the collage posted below along with the owners first tattoo, the reaper, and a photo of his dad, the tattoo artist.

ES’s first tattoo, the grim reaper. Faded but still impressive!