“Then they’ll see I’m a fat redneck with an unhealthy obsession for horror!” — From the poetry of Sterling Grice

Sterling’s Stellar Style

  • A woman with dark hair and numerous facial and body tattoos looks at the camera, resting her head on her hand. She has facial piercings, including a nose ring and lip piercings, and is wearing eye makeup.

    Black out sleeve

    This is a perfect illustration of the beauty that blackouts beam when rendered with perfect consistency. This blackout beauty ends with a paradoxically elegant collection of Cybersigilism spires curving chaotically over the top of her hand.

  • A topless woman with multiple body tattoos poses against a plain background. She covers her left breast with her hand and her gaze is directed away from the camera. The tattoos include geometric patterns, a moon, and striped designs on her arm.

    Decorative Blackout Half Sleeve

    Peer into the depths of darkness itself with this blackout decorative display. Sterling’s mastery of design is emphasized in this piece with the perfectly placed moon and the tantalizing transition of black bands travelling away form the blackout.

  • Tattoo of Deadpool giving a wink and making a peace sign with his fingers, surrounded by colorful comic-style bursts and dots, with the date April 29, 2019, and the word MEMORIES.

    SHHHHHHHHHH

    Sterling did this Deadpool tattoo quite a while ago, and it has aged like fine with with its stellar depth, well executed duel light sources, and precise forms. The comic book element is emphasized with contrasting colors, hues and chromas, pulling the image together in a stunning masterwork of design.

  • Black and gray tattoo of a dinosaur skull with mushrooms, flowers, and leaves surrounding it on someone's thigh.

    Animal Skull Peony on Thigh

    This animal skull flows perfectly along this tattoo collector’s thigh. it is emphasized by the sue of black in the leaves, framing it and the peony while directing the flow properly and pristinely along her thigh and hip.

  • Tattoo artist working on a portrait tattoo of a person with a hat on skin.

    Frankenstein's Monster

    “It’s Alive!” Poor unnamed monster of Frankenstein, cast aside by his horrified creator to wander around the countryside with but a singular desire to belong. The expression of subtle pain on the face of this monster portrait is supremely rendered. Even in this process image, this unfinished design expresses a promise of immaculate precision.

  • Black and gray floral tattoo with butterflies, a skeletal ribcage, a skull with a moth, and additional flowers on person's side.

    A Dichotomy of Death and Beauty

    Once again Sterling wows us with his brilliant use of black against skin tone. This beautiful expression of death and life flows up the collector’s thigh with glove-like perfection.

  • Two women with extensive tattoos posing with their backs to the camera, showcasing their back and leg tattoos against a black background.

    Buddha Back Piece

    With brilliant balance this buddha backpiece fits perfectly along this tattoo collector’s hip lines, his arms flow with her scapulae as though they belong. The mandalas and peony are perfectly placed to add balance and flow, accentuating her body with tantric grace.

  • Tattoo of a bouquet of flowers with a man's face obscured by the blooms on an upper arm.

    Floral Portrait

    Feast your eyes on this delectable delight. A beautiful Victorian-style portrait of a bouquet of flowers. The angles of the shoulder against the V line in the center merge seamlessly with her shoulder, directing our eyes to the central flower as though we peer at its celestial soul through the central point of the spiraling petals.

  • Black snake tattoo with floral design on a person's back

    Black Snake

    Here we have a succulent black snake upon which our eyes frantically feast. He slithers silently though a collection of peonies. This piece was executed with amazing consistency and placed with perfection.

  • A person's arm with an intricate black and gray tattoo sleeve featuring roses, a mandala, and other floral designs.

    Mindful Mandala

    What expressed a love of life more than a collection of flowers and mandalas. This piece is pristinely placed to maximize the use of the space with decorative delight.

  • Tattoo of a skull with moth wings and floral elements on a person's chest, with dark flower tattoos on the breasts.

    Delightful Death Moth

    This deathmoth was placed perfectly on the centerline of this collector’s sternum, and balanced with inner facing peonies. The use of the black to bring the skull forward, sets the moth apart from the peonies and catches the eye without becoming muddled is an expression of pure wizardry. Harry Potter, eat your heart out.

  • Black and gray tattoo of a skull surrounded by flowers and leaves on a person's upper arm and shoulder.

    Flower Skull

    A Dynamic dead creature lunging forward from the depths of the underworld, announces that, in it's expression of demise balanced with the beauty and vitality of a floral display, all is well at the tone of the bell.

  • Colorful tattoo featuring a woodland scene with a deer, pumpkin with a carved face, squirrel, bunny, flowers, and leaves on a person's thigh.

    A Column of Cute Critters

    What a shame it is that Sterling doesn’t do more illustrative color animals. The balance of colors and us eof forms flow up and down this collector’s leg just as the frolicking creature do in life.