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Black-and-gray tattoo illustrating The Crusades that encompasses the entire backside. The shading technique on the shield and other elements is pronounced and creates a sense of depth. Black-and-gray (also black-and-grey, black and grey/gray) is a style of tattooing that uses only black ink in varying shades.
Modern tattoo machine in use: here outfitted with a 5-needle setup, but number of needles depends on size and shading desired. The process or technique of tattooing, creating a tattoo, involves the insertion of pigment (via tattoo ink) into the skin's dermis. Traditionally, tattooing often involved rubbing pigment into cuts.
Trash Polka is a tattoo style created by tattoo artists Simone Pfaff and Volker Merschky in Würzburg, Germany. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The characteristics of Trash Polka tattoos can be a combination of naturalistic, surrealistic, [ 3 ] and photorealistic motifs with graphic, lettering, and calligraphic elements primarily in black & red.
The word tattoo, or tattow in the 18th century, is a loanword from the Samoan word tatau, meaning "to strike", [2] [3] from Proto-Oceanic *sau₃ referring to a wingbone from a flying fox used as an instrument for the tattooing process. [4] The Oxford English Dictionary gives the etymology of tattoo as "In 18th c. tattaow, tattow.
Irezumi (入れ墨, lit. ' inserting ink ') (also spelled 入墨 or sometimes 刺青) is the Japanese word for tattoo, and is used in English to refer to a distinctive style of Japanese tattooing, though it is also used as a blanket term to describe a number of tattoo styles originating in Japan, including tattooing traditions from both the Ainu people and the Ryukyuan Kingdom.
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From January 2011 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Eric C. Wiseman joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 41.2 percent return on your investment, compared to a 12.1 percent return from the S&P 500.
The search for missing hiker Susan Lane-Fournier, 61, took a tragic turn after her body was found over the weekend in Welches, Oregon, an unincorporated community at the base of Mount Hood.