Vai's tatooing

One evening I tagged along with Vai when he went to tattoo this guy, Richard. He has done a lot of work on himself as well as other people, and is an excellent artist.


This work is all freeform, no stencil is used.



The image drawn here is the traditional Samoan kava ('ava) bowl called tala. The arcs to the left are traditional patterns representing things like waves, fish, birds and woven mats.


Finished product, sorry the photo is fuzzy. It took two evenings, over 6 hours of work.