Salty Artwork Sparks the Imagination (Part I)

What is it about salty paintings, drawings, tattoos and photos? Anything to do with ships and sailors sparks my imagination.

Norman Keith Collins was a prominent American tattoo artist, famous for his tattooing of sailors; he was also known as "Sailor Jerry."

Back in the old days only bikers, sailors and hookers had tattoos. A Cobra, a dagger stabbed through a heart, a skull, an anchor or a sexy girl permanently printed on one's arm, leg or chest--that's how roughnecks set themselves apart from prim and proper society. But these days every high school girl and nerdy computer-coder wears a full sleeve of psychedelic scribble. When I see vivid tattoos, my mind goes to late night drinking and slumming in waterfront bars across the Western Pacific and sharing a house with a bunch of bikers and sailors in Central California.

Tattoo art by Quyen Dinh a famous Los Angeles artist.

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