Chest · Black & Gray
Hooded reaper skull
5 frames on file
The frames.
Photograph · shop archiveHooded reaper skull, chest, black & gray 
stencilPhotograph · shop archivePURPLE STENCIL TRANSFER on skin for the hooded skull — pairs with work-hooded-skull-chest-01 
Photograph · shop archiveSame hooded skull, close crop 
Photograph · shop archiveSame hooded skull, full chest context 
Photograph · shop archiveSame hooded skull, angled crop
Project record
What is on file.
- Placement
- Chest
- Technique
- Black & Gray
- Frames on file
- 5
- Healed proof
- Check-in not photographed
- Sitting record
- Not on file for this piece
- Session rate
- $300 · 4-Hour Session
- Hourly rate
- $100 · Per Hour
- Deposit
- $50 · non-refundable
The concept arrived as a rough idea rather than a finished picture, which is the normal starting point. Consultation set the frame first: how much of the chest the piece could hold, and which way the hood should run against the line of the collarbone.
Execution is black and gray throughout — value and contrast doing the work that colour would otherwise be asked to do. The skull is carried on value alone, with the deepest blacks reserved for the eye sockets so the focal point never moves.
The purple stencil transfer for this piece was photographed on the skin before the first line went in, and it is published on this page. A stencil is the last point at which placement is still free to move, which is why it gets approved on the body rather than on paper.
Style
Filed under.
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