What year did you start tattooing? If I remember correctly, I started to learn all of the basics at the age of 16, but I started tattooing maybe four years or so ago. How did you get into tattooing? Well, this is an easy question: My uncle is a tattoo artist.
What year did you start tattooing? If I remember correctly, I started to learn all of the basics at the age of 16, but I started tattooing maybe four years or so ago. How did you get into tattooing? Well, this is an easy question: My uncle is a tattoo artist.
What year did you start tattooing? I started tattooing full-time in 2010. How did you get into tattooing? I started getting tattooed when I was in the Russian military. We didn't have any professional tattooing equipment, so we mostly built our own machines from different electronics we had.
What year did you start tattooing? I started in 2010, when I was 15 years old. At that time I made my own tattoo machines, which were made out of electrical motors and guitar strings. But when I turned 16 years old, I got my first real machines and started tattooing more and more.
How have you been since Freshly Inked last spoke with you? I've been great. Life has its ups and downs, but that's life, right? It's been a little over two years since the last time you guys interviewed me. So much has happened since then. The most major thing would probably be that I got married to an amazing woman, and that I'm now based in Philadelphia full-time.
What year did you start tattooing? I started officially in 2006, but I had some weak attempts in my parents' house before that. It's better not to mention those attempts. How did you get into tattooing? Some of my friends tried tattooing with homemade machines, but they could not really prosper without artistic and technical skills.
What year did you start tattooing? I started tattooing approximately in the year 2003, 2004, in Puerto Cabello, a small city in my country, Venezuela. How did you get into tattooing? I remember an old friend lent me a handmade machine. Ten years ago in my country it was so difficult to find a good machine, needles, or ink; all the artists made the machines themselves, and the needles, etc. The first tattoo I tried was on myself, on my leg.
What year did you start tattooing? I think I started tattooing out of my apprenticeship in '07. How did you get into tattooing? I was going to school for animation, and shortly in, I realized it wasn't really what I wanted to do. I was serving at a restaurant in Arizona called Mimi's Cafe.
How did you get into tattooing? I got my first tattoo three years ago from Avi Vanunu at Psycho Tattoo Studio in Tel Aviv. It was one of the strongest impacts of my life, as I found the tattoo procedure super spiritual and life-changing. Do you have any special training?
What year did you start tattooing? I started tattooing back home in Transylvania in 1995. I was living in Budapest, Hungary, at the time and my friend asked me if I wanted to join him to go to a friend's house to get tattooed. At that time tattooing in Hungary and Romania were still virgin territories, unless of course you count the prison tattoos.
What year did you start tattooing? 2003. How did you get into tattooing? By chance—a friend of mine wanted to have a tattoo, but he could not find a tattooist. As he knows that I can do paintings, he boldly asked me to do the tattoo on him. What was your first shop experience like?
What year did you start tattooing? 1993, to be exact. How did you get into tattooing? My best friend, Matt, went to get a tattoo at the local tattoo parlor once he turned 18. I was really intrigued because I have been fascinated with tattoos since I was a young boy.
Always focused on discovery and international artists, Evian has once again been the epicenter of an earthquake of creativity and "savoir-faire." The convention does not owe its reputation to the beau tiful, idyllic scenery it is set in, but to the rarely matched line-up and to the quality inversely related to its size.
Nikko Hurtado is known in the tattoo industry as one of the best color portrait artists to arise in the last decade, but he is also an amazing painter. This fall he hosted his first ever solo art exhibition, Renati, in Santa Monica's Copro Gallery.
The 2013 Atlantic City Tattoo Expo was three days of non-stop ink at the Tropicana Casino and Resort in good old AC, New Jersey. Some of the most diverse artists were in attendance including lettering master Big Meas, Freshly Inked cover artist Jon Mesa, and Baltimore based realism artist, Halo.
A Pound of Flesh is a company dedicated to helping tattooists reach their full artistic potential without having to experiment with new techniques on their clients. This company has grown to success by creating skin-like synthetic hands and arms for tattoo artists to practice on by simulating as real a canvas as possible.
Each year famed San Fran tattooist Lyle Tuttle presents the St. Louis Old School Tattoo Expo. The Expo is focused on bringing the old traditions of tattooing into a modern light. Great artists like Tim Kern, Scotty Munster, and Ink Master's Jime Litwalk attended.