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Shop (they work at)
Hope Gallery
Location
New Haven, CT
How started
I started in February 2003, on Long Island, NY at a place called Cliff's Tattoo. Basically, I was kind of asked to get into the business. A guy had seen a lot of my artwork and thought that I would make a good tattoo artist. At the time, I was an artist designing biker T-shirts and what not, and a bunch of us went in to get tattooed. A friend of mine was kind of mentioning that I was an artist and thought I could do it. One of the guys who worked at the shop at the time and later owned a shop, saw my stuff and remembered me. I did a couple of paintings for him and he just kept hounding me to learn how to tattoo. He thought I would be very good at it, as it turns out he was rightŠI enjoyed it and it was something I really took to so I stopped painting and pretty much went full steam apprenticing there six days a week.
Influences
As far as influences in the business, I mean, god, there are so many people, any of the guys that were big when I started tattooing like Guy Aitchison, Marcs Petecho, Aaron Cain, Timothy Hoyer - I'm a huge fan of his work. I worked with a guy Cory Kruger up in New Hampshire. I am a big fan of his stuff, and then there are a bunch of young guys: Eric Merrill, who I'm actually working with now, that kid Jime' Litwalk, who has got a really cool ass style. His stuff has that POP of animation, there are so many different people you appreciate. Guys like Bob Tyrrell, Paul Booth, as much as I would probably not wear that kind of work you can't take anything away from that.
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