It would seem that the noble octopus has become a very popular design for scarification pieces. Clicking the OCTOPUS tag should bring up many’a fine cephalopod. This piece drawn by the client and cut by previous tentacle technician Brian Decker, now proudly joins the ranks.

Will the octopus explosion continue? Only time will tell!

Lately I’ve been posting a lot of octopus cuttings; until tonight Brian Decker was the man behind all of the cephalopod action. I don’t think there’s any underlying symbolism here, octopi just look cool and make for an interesting design. This one, on my friend Maxine, was done by the talented hands of Wayde “Thunda” Dunn while visiting in Philadelphia and was photographed by the awesomely named MANDIC.

In progress shot after the break.

Brian Decker likes cephalopods. (proof here and here).

He checked in the other day with Jazz’s cutting…. here are a few more shots of the cutting in-progress. Thanks to Jazz for the use of the pictures.

Using a dermal punch to make the suckers.

Here’s an octopus cutting I did during my stay in Berkeley last month. I will be in Austin, TX from October 22 through November 1st. If anyone would like any scarification and/or modification work while I’m down south email me SOON at purebodyarts@gmail.com!

I shot a short video of our own Brian Decker playing with a mud soaked/raincoat wearing Boston Terrier this weekend. I had intended to put it up tonight, but decided to go with this octopus cutting instead.

Brian tells me that the suction cups were done with 2mm dermal punches. Really tight lines and good technique on this one.