Sunday, May 17, 2009

A Tat and Biking Story

So I got this tattoo about 2 years ago in Alaska. First the dude did the outline (which you can tell is kinda crappy) Then I went back and got "color" but if you notice the color is well.....very sad. I finally found someone here in Cheyenne that does a ton of flowers and loves color so I finally made an appt. Here is the Before...


And this is the after. He totally fixed the color and reworked the lines. If you compare the pink flower on the bottom in this pic to the same flower in the pic above you can clearly see that this new guy rocked it out. He had some great ideas of other ways to make it pop and I also wanted him to be able to put his own creative twist on it rather than just coloring in someone else's pic so I made another appt....


The background he put in really makes the color pop and I LOVE IT! This was fresh so the background which looks black here has lightened up to the grey that it is supposed to be. He wants this to heal and then he is going to go back and throw a few color streaks into the grey background and I am going to see if he can put my families initials in yellow in the stars, that is what I wanted in the first place so stay tuned!!!






OK, so you can see Luke's big head stick out of the helmet but their is a story behind this. Luke organized and volunteered this last Thursday for the Law Enforcement Special Olympics torch run. He picked up the torch just like the real Olympics in Wheatland, Wy and ran it through their town as he was cheered by the athletes that were competing in the games. Once they got it to the outskirts of town, they jumped on bikes and road the bikes from Wheatland to Cheyenne which is 72 miles. He didn't ride the whole way, he had others to help him out but he rode 10 miles which for someone that doesn't ride a bike, that was a lot. In the end, they made it to Cheyenne with no problems and they were able to run it into the opening ceremonies that night. The Wyoming Special Olympics kicked off with a bang that day all because Luke and the others were able to deliver the torch.