tattoo artist jun cha works across various mediums, including sculpture, painting, and tattooing, drawing from renaissance greats.

A tattoo sketch concept of Hercules fighting the hydra

Hercules fighting Achelous transformed into a snake (1824), bronze sculpture by François-Joseph Bosio, the Louvre, Paris 6h *tattoo below…

But that does not stop people trying through the ages to bring depictions of Hydra to either paintings, statues or songs, or plays. Some have taken it a step further and had done their body a Hydra Tattoo, and we're here to find out what might inspire such a memento, and what it might mean for a person to have such a creature inked on their body.

Hercules fighting against Achelous #finelinetattoo #geometrictattoo #contemporarytattoos