A Chance Encounter with an Amazing Artist (with Brando and Lady Day)

I was getting off of the subway at Bryant Park last June when I spotted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Brando">Marlon Brando</a>:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHOb7VCba-5haqDV6ZU5amCRtAmDvW04P0jQLLOOkTLo-f_-lwdQFG5JHX0lKay77wrQjaydofTtayaKb0pQJHF50CLQcbUJ_niOhv9U7AayCJ8y2ZqreQkaMUiojRUDryL9J3UHyqxqw/s615/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHOb7VCba-5haqDV6ZU5amCRtAmDvW04P0jQLLOOkTLo-f_-lwdQFG5JHX0lKay77wrQjaydofTtayaKb0pQJHF50CLQcbUJ_niOhv9U7AayCJ8y2ZqreQkaMUiojRUDryL9J3UHyqxqw/s640/photo.jpg" width="322" /></a></div><br />This amazing portrait graces the arm of <a href="http://www.daviniatattoo.com/Davinia/Home.html">Davinia Do Santo</a>, a tattoo artist from Spain who was visiting New York City and doing a guest spot at <a href="http://whiterabbittattoostudio.com/home.html">White Rabbit Tattoo</a> in the East Village.<br /><br />She credits this portrait of Marlon Brando to <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.xavitattoo.com/links/?lang=en">Xavi <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">García </span>Boix</a>, another artist from Valencia, Spain. This iconic image is of a young Brando in the film <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_One">The Wild One</a></i>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.american-vintage.net/picsx/1444b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.american-vintage.net/picsx/1444b.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I stopped Davinia, she wasn't alone. Another young woman was accompanying her, and Davinia permitted me to photograph this tattoo, which she had done:</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsIaqumRHbjm9NOVunBb1bwoI4G15MmJBsJYDT3U8rfOweP-8BAVFQAJbpKycSV21MS49ZR3IIxYrfJPrehps_257WbjQTls6dbl8rEOGidhVePZL0HB8XriI2PjjlYLYNG0kBPjnld-8/s614/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsIaqumRHbjm9NOVunBb1bwoI4G15MmJBsJYDT3U8rfOweP-8BAVFQAJbpKycSV21MS49ZR3IIxYrfJPrehps_257WbjQTls6dbl8rEOGidhVePZL0HB8XriI2PjjlYLYNG0kBPjnld-8/s1600/photo.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">That's the legendary <a href="http://www.billieholiday.com/">Billie Holiday</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can check out more of Davinia's amazing work on her website <a href="http://www.daviniatattoo.com/Davinia/Home.html">here</a> or on her Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/DAVINIA-DO-SANTO-TATTOO/82118836548">here</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Muchas gracias</i> to Davinia Do Santo for sharing her work with us here on Tattoosday!</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><b id="internal-source-marker_0.592736950609833" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are seeing this on another website other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit</span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></span></b>

A Chance Encounter with an Amazing Artist (with Brando and Lady Day)

I was getting off of the subway at Bryant Park last June when I spotted Marlon Brando : This amazing portrait graces the arm of Davinia Do S...

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Kate Shares Some Amazing Portraits by Tommy Montoya

Sometimes I hang on to the great tattoo photos for a rainy day.<br /><br />Well, it's not rainy today, but I thought I'd release these portraits from Kate, who I was fortunate enough to meet in Penn Station back in May.  Kate credited the work to the phenomenal <a href="http://tommymontoya.com/">Tommy Montoya</a> (one of the artists from <i><a href="http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/tv/ny-ink">N.Y. Ink</a></i>) out of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Inkslingers-LA/143403015718624">Inkslingers L.A.</a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd_kqZPCReTQxro2blSl08ausrKfFZ4nym-j32-Fu9G4PBhRgy6c8_YkLafma8y8SgpdKVDr_1w_G3hZgmLP0UdfhsKJ4hwoCFaEs45LfBRRA9F7KIBOGQlsDIyGcEYiOlHQo4buvpBvA/s503/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd_kqZPCReTQxro2blSl08ausrKfFZ4nym-j32-Fu9G4PBhRgy6c8_YkLafma8y8SgpdKVDr_1w_G3hZgmLP0UdfhsKJ4hwoCFaEs45LfBRRA9F7KIBOGQlsDIyGcEYiOlHQo4buvpBvA/s640/photo.jpg" width="227" /></a></div><br />That's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dillinger">John Dillinger</a>, <a href="http://marilynmonroe.com/">Marilyn Monroe</a> on the outside of Kate's left arm, and on the inside:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig-X-8hyphenhyphenZvrz65kY9Kle46JgoYzYpmQbYSiq3hFi0DI6aNRZZG9zqWrj322EcD-36w411GXItWCav5yLkK5K2FutqZQ6MIFX-e2nI3FShmD7LXNdgtaUtH_-jdhstjhF0omAWTBu8AlvU/s489/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig-X-8hyphenhyphenZvrz65kY9Kle46JgoYzYpmQbYSiq3hFi0DI6aNRZZG9zqWrj322EcD-36w411GXItWCav5yLkK5K2FutqZQ6MIFX-e2nI3FShmD7LXNdgtaUtH_-jdhstjhF0omAWTBu8AlvU/s640/photo.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://www.billieholiday.com/">Billie Holliday</a> and <a href="http://www.jamesdean.com/">James Dean</a>.<br /><br />Thanks to Kate for sharing these amazing portraits by one of the best in the business!<br /><br /><b id="internal-source-marker_0.2920736074447632" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are reading this on another website other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit</span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></span></b>

Kate Shares Some Amazing Portraits by Tommy Montoya

Sometimes I hang on to the great tattoo photos for a rainy day. Well, it's not rainy today, but I thought I'd release these portrait...

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