Beltaine Ink 2: Colorful Kali

Kali

This gorgeous Kali is another tattoo I was blessed with photographing on Beltaine. This tattoo belongs to the gracious Chelsea, who will be making more appearances here at NeoPagan Ink, and was inked by the fine folks at Electric Voodoo Tattoo in Springfield, Missouri.

Sugar Skull

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Here's another tattoo, this time a sugar skull, from the Flickrstream of Opacity; it's licensed by Creative Commons.

Swamp Thing, Dead Lady

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These gorgeous tattoos come from the Flickrstream of Sfllaw and is licensed by Creative Commons.

Looks like Swamp Thing on the left and maybe a dead zombie gypsy on the right? Anyway, enjoy!

Jack Skellington Ink

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This killer Jack Skellington tattoo comes from the Flickrstream of Vgsgeek and is licensed by Creative Commons.

For those of you who don't know, and I pity you, Jack Skellington is the big man about Halloween town in the film The Nightmare Before Christmas by that master of weirdness, Tim Burton. In it, Jack discovers Christmas town and wants to bring his own scary flair to the joyful holiday. He has good intentions but ends up scaring the holy hell out of people before being shot down and landing in a graveyard. I know he's probably a metaphor for something really deep but I just like him for his adorable creepiness.

The Fool and His Skeleton

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The tattoo comes from the Flickrstream of Ste3ve and is licensed under Creative Commons. It was inked by Martin Roberson of Lucky Stars Tattoos, San Jose, California.

The card image comes from Wikimedia Commons and is a recolored version of the classic Rider Waite Smith Tarot card, the original images of which are now public domain.

The idea is an original concept of the owner that includes the normally fleshed Fool as a skeleton in honor of The Day of the Dead festival. The Fool is one of the trump cards that make up the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck. I think this is a fascinating reinterpretation of the Tarot and while The Day of the Dead, and Tarot, aren't strictly pagan I couldn't resist sharing this tattoo!

Killer Cat

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This supercool tattoo comes from the Flickrstream of Tlindenbaum and is licensed under Creative Commons.

Headless Lady

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This cool tattoo comes from the Flickrstream of Trev Poulson and is licensed under Creative Commons. Trev is a talented tattoo artist who works at Loyalty Tattoos and Piercing out of Clearfield, Utah.

Here's a nice dark goddess to brighten up, or darken down, your Samhain season. Don't know if this an original work by the tattoo artist or someone else. Either way, it's very nice. I like the contrasting use of color and black and gray. She's one hell of a sexy goddess.

Halloween Every Day

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This groovy tattoo comes from the Flickrstream of Katie Cowden and is licensed under Creative Commons.

I know we're still two weeks 'til the actual day but I'm getting the Halloween/Samhain fever so here's the first tattoo celebrating my favorite season. If you haven't already done it this is your official NeoPagan Ink message to get out your pumpkin lights and skull candles.

Misfts Skull

Haha, I love this one. It gets a post all to itself.

Death Metal Tattoos: part 2

I wish I knew what this was, I really do. It looks like a totem pole of demons? With some kind of weird scarred-out blob in the middle. Is it a tribal-mutant batman logo? AND DO YOU SEE THE SCRATCHED UP FETUS ON HIS ELBOW? I mean really, how could you miss that? I don't even know what the stuff on his forearm is. If anyone can help decipher this, please let me know! I was staring at this guy for ages trying to figure it out.



I wish I knew what was on his back, too. You can see a bit of it poking out. I bet it's incredible.

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I think the title says it all, really. This is a truly scary guy.

The Devil Is In The Detail

Nice shading on the nsfw boobies, Brady Wilmott.

Soto far, Soto Good

Inspired by the earlier post of Ruben's tattoos, I thought I'd profile some of Steve Soto's other fabulous pinups...

Day Of The Dead Good

Something a bit more striking from Ed Perdomo this time. A frightening and frighteningly good zombie geisha.

Skull and Daisies

This gorgeous skull with daisies was created by the phenomenal tattoo artist Paul Acker. Be sure to check out his portfolio at Deep Six Laboratory. It's really amazing work if you can stomach all the blood and gore. This skull is relatively tame compared to some of his other work as he seems to specialize in horror images. But still, just wonderful art. This image reminds me of the Jodie Foster film Nell wherein she places daisies in the eye sockets of her dead sister and mother. As always, be sure to click the image to view the details.

Amazing Odin

This gorgeous Odin comes from Skysinger's Flickrstream.

Old Man Winter

This impressive frosty guy comes from TattooArtists.org.

Aquarius Sleeve

From InkedBlog.

Cute Witch

This super cute witch comes Kris. She is the fourth person to submit art to my little blog. Isn't it awesome? She's submitted other images so we'll be seeing more of her on NeoPagan Ink.

Amazing Goddess

All I can say about this beautiful and enormous goddess is "WOW"!