The man, 38-year-old Dave Singleton, had Trump’s face tattooed on his left calf. Singleton got the tattoo at Just Add Ink studio in Poole, Dorest. Craig Bartlett was the tattooist who provided Singleton with the ink.
Our Artist Craig Bartlett has tattooed this amazing portrait. This is a sneaky preview of what you will be waking up to in the national papers tomorrow morning.
Posted by Just Add Ink Tattoo Studio on Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Singleton didn’t have to pay anything to get the Donald Trump tattoo. This is because Bartlett used social media to offer to do a portrait of Trump, at no charge.
He said the tattoo was a masterpiece and he said he doesn’t care if other people don’t like it — explaining that great art is controversial. Singleton added that most of the negative comments he has received were from Americans.
Singleton said some people compared it to getting a tattoo of Adolf Hitler. He continued to say that as far as he was aware, Trump is not a mass murderer.
Bartlett spent six hours on the tattoo, which was completed on Sunday. He did it all in one sitting and then posted the finish piece on Facebook. Barlett said they didn’t receive a lot of bad press on it, but he did tell Singleton that if he ever had an issue with it, then it could be covered up.
As for Singleton’s response to the finished piece, Bartlett said he couldn’t stop staring at it. He told Bartlett that it was the best tattoo he has ever gotten.
