Planning some new ink

So I totally have tattoo fever.

I'm waiting to hear back on an appointment with amazing artist Kelly Doty to get a phoenix done on my calf. I've wanted a phoenix tat for a couple of years now and have finally decided to bite the bullet. I've spent a zillion hours online, looking at pictures of other people's phoenix tattoos and phoenix artwork and tattoo artist galleries and just generally overdosing on tattoo stuff. It's been so fun.

My only decision now is whether to do full color or black with some color accents. Ideally, I'd like to do the latter. I have four other tats and they're all black work, which is what I typically prefer. But I just can't see having a phoenix without some color on it. It just wouldn't be right. At the same time, I'm not sure I'm ready to have a decent sized full color piece. Though, if I'm going to do color, I totally trust Kelly to make it look like art and not a cartoon sticker or rough, blocky coloring. Her blending and shading is freaking amazing.

So, yeah. Tattoo fever. How about you guys? I know several of you have ink. Care to share? Pics?