Surrealist Tree Rework Sleeve (Before)

These are all of the existing tattoos on the upper arm of the sleeve shown in the following images. I included them here (with some of my new grey lines and color visible) to help you make sense of what is going on in the finished sleeve, which is very busy and very random. My solution to including these tattoos into my own work was to recolor all of them to look like they were either on the tree or morphing into the tree itself.

By Nick Baxter