More Tommy Montoya Portraits on Kate!

Last year, I met Kate in Penn Station and, what luck! She had some amazing work by acclaimed artist <a href="http://www.tommymontoya.com/">Tommy Montoya</a> (known to many via <a href="http://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/ny-ink">NY Ink</a>). See those portraits <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2012/10/kate-shares-some-amazing-portraits-by.html">here</a>.<br /><br />Much to my surprise, I ran into Kate a year later, just last week, on the subway platform in my neighborhood out in Brooklyn. Initially, I couldn't place her - it is easier to remember people when I see them around the same location, and here we were, a year and a borough apart!<br /><br />Nonetheless, she was generous yet again, and shared her two latest Tommy Montoya portraits of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Brando">Marlon Brando</a> (top) and <a href="http://www.sinatra.com/">Frank Sinatra</a> (bottom) from the 1955 film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048140/">Guys and Dolls</a>:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk4AlF1ITiqrUtkGgwx3_qztqoL7JT3J7LTnX1EGiTyziS7PuOjv-m9CW0Nz5jWesIu3YMec-0429LQXgOPqRMMPqIFgmLSLtF1s3UkOhkWNNx1GdHdEL1LWO6ErPuKvm_slIDuODBqno/w424-h659-no/IMG_0992.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk4AlF1ITiqrUtkGgwx3_qztqoL7JT3J7LTnX1EGiTyziS7PuOjv-m9CW0Nz5jWesIu3YMec-0429LQXgOPqRMMPqIFgmLSLtF1s3UkOhkWNNx1GdHdEL1LWO6ErPuKvm_slIDuODBqno/w424-h659-no/IMG_0992.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyKGxSd62xQoaqEZW0W-G6fuFB0RcmBwfU-q6vVdFtz1KAPyeNqE2YR4bpbPXhEM5TfrwBRCiH_wi6OA6YgVr1KBSfguusyA275fZK5N9Ah9xUS3o215ErVGSa87S3DuNcOA8sRyMA2vU/w418-h659-no/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyKGxSd62xQoaqEZW0W-G6fuFB0RcmBwfU-q6vVdFtz1KAPyeNqE2YR4bpbPXhEM5TfrwBRCiH_wi6OA6YgVr1KBSfguusyA275fZK5N9Ah9xUS3o215ErVGSa87S3DuNcOA8sRyMA2vU/w418-h659-no/photo.jpg" /></a></div><br />I'm guessing this was the source photograph from which Montoya worked:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz5hYUYfBlpO67syrefxffKf5WOD4a4uWCE0qDTGK3RERj6ShcmOTiRWkYtKRAdqqF4IGtsKaW7-V_FVngFEzjiMNqpVfrBIAnmxNQ2OJxbq-vXx48-ZFp7Yc98f_rIm1x2_eOqHBwh68/s1600/mumbles_fs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz5hYUYfBlpO67syrefxffKf5WOD4a4uWCE0qDTGK3RERj6ShcmOTiRWkYtKRAdqqF4IGtsKaW7-V_FVngFEzjiMNqpVfrBIAnmxNQ2OJxbq-vXx48-ZFp7Yc98f_rIm1x2_eOqHBwh68/s640/mumbles_fs.jpg" width="580" /></a></div><br />It's always amazing to see work from a great artist like Montoya, and I thank Kate for once again sharing her tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday.</span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-388b3fbd-28d6-0f30-9200-f98d9071877a"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; 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. 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More Tommy Montoya Portraits on Kate!

Last year, I met Kate in Penn Station and, what luck! She had some amazing work by acclaimed artist Tommy Montoya (known to many via NY Ink...

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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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