"Tiny tattoos"

I got a call the other week from Paulette, who with her friend Barbara, had gotten tattoos from me back in 2012. They have the same birthday and they got ink together on their day, back in the day. Now they were thinking about coming back, near their birthday, again for some "tiny tattoos". They wanted to know if I'd be interested, even if the projects were small. "Of course," I replied. "I will do almost any kind of tattoo work (with some caveats), please come on back in. Let's see what we can do together again."

Barbara's piece is a cover up (Gemini symbol with flowers), so it was a bit trickier than Paulette's simple one. Paulette wanted the famous, one line Picasso dog, and she was thinking about adding a heart to it. I worked with it for awhile but as simple as that famous doodle is, it's brilliant in it's elegance and resists any alteration. So she decided to wait on adding anything.

Here are some photos of their drawings, Barbara's before, outline and after stages, and Paulette's simple "tiny tattoo".