'Cause I don't want a regular "tramp stamp!"

December 12, 2006 9:22 PM

At Body Art Ink in Myrtle Beach, I saw a picture I really wanted as a lower-back tattoo--a lion lying on his back with a girl straddling him. Does anyone know the picture or where I can find it again?

I had some ink done several months ago at Body Art, and I saw the picture in one of their flash albums. Tattooing had just legally started in SC and most of the pictures looked like a lot of the same flash you see anywhere (I've seen a lot of the same pictures in most of the tattoo parlors I've been in). I haven't seen this particular anywhere else I've been, and I can't find it online, either.

Has anyone seen a picture like that, who could point me to artwork online, or even possibly a place to buy the picture as flash (I'm not interested in buying a large bundle of flash art, which is what any tattoo-art sites I've found seem to be offering)?

It's a two-week drive back, or I'd just go there to have it done.

posted by Cricket to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (5 answers total)

I don't have a picture, but is it possible that it was taken from Lost Girls? The only reference that I've been able to find to a girl straddling a lion concerns an image of Dorothy from that graphic novel, although I haven't been able to find it online.
posted by biscuitsticks at 10:13 PM on December 12, 2006

Why not just give them a call and ask about it? It's possible it is by a local artist.
posted by Mitheral at 7:32 AM on December 13, 2006

Check out versions of the Tarot card "Strength", which is probably where she boosted it from.
posted by hermitosis at 8:40 AM on December 13, 2006

Or, "where it was boosted from", rather.
posted by hermitosis at 9:46 AM on December 13, 2006

It's certainly from the tarot The card's also called "Lust" in some decks.
posted by Gucky at 10:28 AM on December 13, 2006