Most people comment on my line work and how clean it is. We usually get to the strange places after the more obvious spaces are filled up. So you must get a lot of requests for odd tattoos in strange places? I get this question once a week and I never have an answer for it. What is the weirdest thing or place you have ever tattooed? The people who are excited about it, that’s the type of person who should. If people are unsure and get peer-pressured in or if you’re on the fence about it, don’t do it. I won’t do anything that’s racial or negative in that aspect. You’ve got to get a sleeve done before you get your neck done. You’ve got to get your arm done before you get your hand done. Now you have to put it on your hand or your neck or your face to get that shock value. It used to be a statement to just get something on your forearm. Sometimes young people come in, teens or early 20s, and they want really extreme tattoos. She and another lady in her 60s, they go to church together, and they’d been talking about it, and they both came in and got tattoos. Some people, it’s their excuse: “I’m too old to get a tattoo.” It’s like, “Bull-, you are never too old.” She was “the lady with the tattoo.” She couldn’t remember much, but she sure could remember how much she loved her tattoo. Her last couple years she spent more time in the hospital than not. When she came to the shop she said, “I want to make an appointment with you.” I did a tattoo on her shoulder blade (a lily) when she was 72. She would come down from Canada once a year or so and stay for a couple weeks. I didn’t know how my grandma was going to react to me being a tattooer. She got her second tattoo about a year and a half ago a birdcage with a little bird flying away on her wrist. My mom (Karen) got her first tattoo at about 50, on her shoulder blade. Pretty much everywhere except my middle and lower back and my butt and the backs of my thighs. I might get a tattoo and add a background to it where it flows into another tattoo. I think I lost track after 10 or 20 and stopped counting. I’m just hoping one day to just have one big tattoo. He ended up closing his shop down and going to Boeing.īetween 50 and 80, maybe more depending on what you count as one tattoo. Everyone knows him as “Hot-Rod.” He did that for 35 years. He would do sign painting, pin-striping, big murals on vans and RVs, sides of buildings. It was kind of like a culture icon for the custom motorcycle and hot-rod culture. It’s a flying eyeball across my upper back. I got my first tattoo on my 18th birthday. How old were you when you got “inked” for the first time? I like taking somebody’s vision and putting my spin on it. I always knew I would do something either artistic or a craft, and this is a good balance of the two. I worked there for a couple years before I decided to open my own studio. He said, “You ever thought about tattooing?” It unfolded from there. I was getting tattooed, and the guy who was doing it was inquisitive about my artwork. They make it look so easy at the tattoo shop, just drawing on skin, but there’s a technical side to the craft. I bought a little starter kit off the internet and I realized it was a whole lot harder than it looks. I started drawing them and decided I should probably start tattooing. I would draw things that I wanted to get tattooed and then people started asking me, “Oh, can you draw this design for me?” I’d start drawing on the paper rather than doing the assignment. I started drawing tattoo designs for my friends and I in high school. The cats are incorporated in the tattoo mural covering much of his body.įind out this - and more - in this Q&A with the artist. MacKenzie, 29, an Everett native and 2006 Kamiak High School graduate, lives in Stanwood with his girlfriend, dog and two cats.
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