to art. I can hardly draw a stick figure. Doing it this
way has allowed for me to have beautiful, creative,
original pieces that all have something incorporated
into them that means a lot to me, and are artistically
pleasing at the same time. I’m proud to say that I
have yet to get a tattoo I dislike or regret. I love them
all pretty equally.
It’s a difficult question, but do you have a favorite
tattoo artist?
I could NEVER pick a favorite artist. Whether it
be tattoos, photography, painting, music, dance,
or anything else artistic, it’s impossible to pick a
favorite. Everyone is so different, everyone has
their own style and way of doing things to express
their creativity, how could you say one’s better than
the other? I can give you a few examples of tattoo
artists I think are amazing, however. Nikko Hurtado
is incredibly talented and I don’t think there’s anyone
in the industry who could deny that. I’ve recently
stumbled across the Instagram for Andres Acosta,
and his work drew me in immediately. His rose
mixture creations are ridiculous, they’re so good!
A little closer to home is Nick Chaboya out of San
Francisco. I’ve followed his work for years, he’s great
at all different types of tattooing. Last, but far from
least, is my current tattoo artist: Tanner Richardson.
He owns Elliptic Ink in Grass Valley, California, and
he is one of the most talented artists I’ve ever met,
along with just being an awesome friend. I’ll be
sticking with him until I don’t have any more skin to
fill up, but you know how I feel about talking about
that time, so let’s just say forever.
Do you have any funny or weird stories about a
tattoo experience?
When I was about 20, I went to LA with an old friend
of mine. Kat Von D had just started getting crazy
popular and was in the process of opening High
Voltage. She was working out of a smaller shop
at the time and my friend and I thought it would
be awesome to get tattoos from her. We went to
the shop she was supposed to be working for, but
she, of course, wasn’t there. We decided to get the
tattoos anyways because they were going to be
epic. We wanted something to bring us together,
a type of friendship tattoo, that would still be their
own separate tattoos. We decided to get Mooninites
from the TV show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force that we
used to love watching. I got Er, she got Ignignokt. We
walked in, told the artist what we wanted, he looked
at us like we were crazy (he had NO idea what a
Mooninite was), Googled it, put it on us, tattooed it,
and we were out the door in a half an hour. It was
crazy and made for a good “what the heck IS that?!”
tattoo, which is pretty funny.
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