Amy Honors Her Grandmother with a Brandon Maldonado Design (via Zac Brown)

Last month, Tattoosday reader Amy was the lucky winner in our <a href="http://www.brooklyntattoo.com/">Brooklyn Tattoo</a> <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2013/05/im-just-bill-yes-im-only-bill.html">t-shirt giveaway</a>.<br /><br />We struck up a transcontinental conversation, and she offered to share some of her work with us, in what we  call a little "tattoorism."<br /><br />Let's take a look:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJztqIovnBrnWHRwlZyFgrkfDc9qvzR2ihL515ZyhMMyW-WeTBlP6R-h0OxatPMZKvx2yduD2jWCcYsAheOVa5VwBzrJ4xvg4RmbEr1KVfQuqtE4Az0j3Zms0xzEpqZqOYApVaKOYVAAY/w340-h659-no/image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJztqIovnBrnWHRwlZyFgrkfDc9qvzR2ihL515ZyhMMyW-WeTBlP6R-h0OxatPMZKvx2yduD2jWCcYsAheOVa5VwBzrJ4xvg4RmbEr1KVfQuqtE4Az0j3Zms0xzEpqZqOYApVaKOYVAAY/w340-h659-no/image.jpg" width="330" /></a></div><br />She credited the work to Tony Carey at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hold-Fast-Tattoo/148380601877573">Hold Fast Tattoo</a> in Prescott, Arizona.<br /><br />Amy explained, "it's based on the original artwork of <a href="http://www.brandonmaldonado.com/index.shtml">Brandon Maldonado's</a> "Our Lady of Merciful Fate" which was featured on the <a href="http://www.zacbrownband.com/">Zac Brown Band's</a> album <a href="http://www.nashvillegab.com/2012/06/the-zac-brown-bands-uncaged-album-artwork-is-a-real-work-of-art.html">Uncaged</a>."<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.brandonmaldonado.com/images/Our-Lady-of-the-Merciful-Fa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://www.brandonmaldonado.com/images/Our-Lady-of-the-Merciful-Fa.jpg" width="440" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">via brandonmaldonado.com</td></tr></tbody></table>She added, "I was looking for something to honor my grandmother and I had been wanting a day of the dead tattoo ... when I saw this album cover I fell in love with Brandon's art."<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kXOFYo8Kjdg/Ua8qOj4SImI/AAAAAAAAY48/Gby_8u6QXoQ/w492-h659-no/image+%25281%2529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kXOFYo8Kjdg/Ua8qOj4SImI/AAAAAAAAY48/Gby_8u6QXoQ/w492-h659-no/image+%25281%2529.jpeg" width="476" /></a></div><br />Thanks to Amy for being a top-notch Tattoosday reader and generously sharing her ink with us here on the site!<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-1457-224c-2f77-2ec2e392c0ce"><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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Amy Honors Her Grandmother with a Brandon Maldonado Design (via Zac Brown)

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