A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

Double Speed Tattooing

Delanne just got double-teamed again by Jeff Paetzold (Topnotch Tattoos in Elgin, IL) and Tim Victim (Deep Six Laboratory in Philadelphia) at the Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention, with this alligator versus shark tattoo done over about four hours. She’d previously had a chameleon (which you can see on her page) done by the two of them.

Also after the break is a mildly disturbing tattoo that Jeff also did for her, a worm wrapped around a butterknife with a butter hat, which she wears on her right forearm.

Comments

28 responses to “Double Speed Tattooing”

  1. Caitlyn Avatar

    Now thaaat’s weird (The worm) But love the details and colours in both 😀

  2. LeeHO Avatar
    LeeHO

    Is that a worm or a penis? The shark is biting the gator in the crotch so maybe its his.

  3. Tsarik Avatar
    Tsarik

    both tats are fucking killer! but i especially love the worm, its so original and just plain odd, awesome!

  4. Tom For Real Avatar

    haha,thats totally not how i imagined the worm when i read the description,was waiting for a wee cute one!
    its dead good 😀

  5. brute Avatar

    that worm is wicked disturbing. love it, want it, etc!

  6. Tapsa Avatar
    Tapsa

    “The Cut Worm Forgives The Plough”, does it also forgive the butter knife?

  7. Sarah Avatar

    Awesome! These are fantastic!

  8. Shade_of_Ink Avatar

    That butter worm is cute in some weird freakish way. Great highlights on both of the tattoos using color and white.

  9. Smurf666 Avatar
    Smurf666

    Awesome crocogator.

  10. lindsey Avatar
    lindsey

    i love the butter worm! he’s way awesome!!!

  11. angie Avatar

    ahah…those are awesome. being tag teamed sucks… my feet were done that way! 2 different styles of tattooing

  12. Sneezy Avatar

    hey its my buddy deli Congrads on the mod bloggage 😀 😀 😀

  13. Neon Avatar
    Neon

    I bet it would be crazy to feel multiple tattoos needles in one area.

  14. Delanne Avatar

    The worm is straight up Jeff, by the way. If you check out some of the more recent work in his portfolio, you’ll see things such as a fish riding a bull, or a frog in a waffle cone… He’s seriously amazing.

    As far as the feeling of getting collab. work, it’s kind of weird. With the first one, a lot of the time the artists kind of canceled each other out, and with this one it just hurt a million times worse… hahaha Maybe I’m becoming a baby about tattoos.

    *waves at Russ* heyyy!!!!!

  15. AJ Avatar

    wordddd tim’s a fuckin awesome dude. he did my whole right sleeve. amazing artist and his collabs with jeff are insanely good.

  16. Mari Avatar
    Mari

    That worm is awesome in a very creepy way.

  17. MetalHouse III Avatar
    MetalHouse III

    I love that worm. Im gonna name him Butters

  18. Al Avatar
    Al

    The worm is crazy cool!

  19. Delanne Avatar

    haha… you can’t name the worm Butters… His name is already Chester.

  20. HereKittyKitty Avatar
    HereKittyKitty

    Chester’s tail is chopped off…is someone eating Chester? With butter?

  21. throne of bears Avatar
    throne of bears

    looks like an ass cheek and SO took my next tattoo 🙁

  22. emily Avatar
    emily

    i love those jorts!! i mean the tattoos are OK i guess, but the cutoffs.. well, it just doesn’t get any better than that. lol.\

    no really, that worm is delightfully distrubing. the butter hat is great.

  23. Sarah Avatar

    I think that worm takes the cake for the best tattoo ever.

  24. FuckingClassy Avatar

    I’m diggin the alligator v. shark.

    I’m still waiting for someone to get a bear v. shark tattoo.
    That would be an epic battle.

  25. Esme Avatar
    Esme

    It’s Deli! I remember that chameleon from that Permanent Addiction Myspace group. Awesome work.. I’m jealous. Grr!

  26. Delanne Avatar

    Just to clarify, it’s a crocodile… haha… not an alligator. It’s actually based off of this statue, which is located in a city I lived in when I was younger.

  27. jeff paetzold Avatar

    haha! i’m happy to see that the worm is a hit…i had been wanting to do that piece for a long time!
    I just saw this page for the first time yesterday, thanks for all the comments!

  28. Сергей Александров Avatar

    Спасибо за пост, а это тема 🙂 В букмарки однозначно, пригодится! 🙂

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