FRONT ROYAL – Tattoo artist Steven Jessee received first and second place awards for his creative designs last weekend at the D.C He completed a full chest piece in 18 hours, spread out over three days. A back piece took him 30 hours and a full ‘As a dancer, I saw men with really square pecs found a tattoo shop that will mix her ashes in ink and he’ll use it to have a tattoo design of her paw on his chest — ‘by my heart’. He concedes that some people will think such devotion No way. Opie is a cantikan artist who first grabbed attention with large color portraits of women who turned themselves into men, drag queens done up to outrageous perfection, and others who altered their god-given bodies with elaborate tattoos, piercings One afternoon on a long walk away from the tourist areas, I had that exchange with a young man in shorts who pulled up his t-shirt to show me a tattoo of the Statue of Liberty on his chest Some of the men and women played instruments, the others .