Monday, Apr 6, 2009 5:46AM /
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Just sketching around. I need to do much more. building a new portfolio can be overwhelming.
but at least its fun.
this is a work in progress. far from finished.
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Monday, Apr 6, 2009 5:35AM /
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So I have aligned with mega house, Body Electric Tattoo on Melrose Ave in LA to continue my tattoo education.
I am truly blessed. this is a best case scenario.
Its
been hard to make trips out to TUcson to continue my education with Red
Sky Studio because finances have been rough. So we decided that I need
to align with a local shop to continue my education when I'm not in AZ.
So
I looked at about 10 shops. non of which gave me any kind of real
feedback and basically hated on me. lol, I'm use to it. nothing new. so
one day
I was driving around looking at shops and drove by the shop
where I originally got work done when I first moved down here and where
I met
my current tattoo mentor, whos also one of my best friends.
Here's
the story. in 1994 I was getting a tattoo by Riley Baxtor. While I was
getting work I was checking out this dude( Philip J Felix) who was
painting a Buddha holding a tattoo
machine sitting in a lotus
flower with the shops name on the shops front door.Thats where me and
Philip met and became friends.We went off to work in animation together
for 8 years before he decided to do tattoos for a living and moved out
of LA into Tucson AZ where he now has his own shop, Red Sky Studio.
Since then, there has been three owners of the shop and the door has
always stayed intact and survived years of the building being tagged.
recently the shop had a fire and although the door survived, it was cut
down so they need to replace it. I walked in last week
and saw the
door and was like "hey, its still here, my bro did that" and they reply
"WHAT, YOU KNOW THE DUDE WHO DID THAT? we didn;t know who did it and we
want
him to repaint on a new door". I said, no problem let me give
him a call...everyone in the shop was cool. they all introduced
themselves and were very supportive
in my path. So I came back and
talked to the owner, told him my situation and he has totally open up
his shop to me in the best way possible.
I'm so stoked!!! The
other crazy thing is that dude who was tattooing me back in 1994(Riley
Baxtor) ended up being my mentors(Philip J Felix) mentor(Riley Baxtor)
so my history is with that shop. in the tattoo world
this shop is my
lineage of tattoo understanding. my teacher and his teachers were from
this shop. Even the current owner looked at it this way, he said I
belonged there and everyone digs my energy.
so, again, I'm
stoked. My education can continue and when I return to my home shop I
will be stronger every time. I can keep forward momentum!
So if
anyone is in LA and needs some custom work right now I will be
designing and drawing on people while the other artists do the tattoo
so I can learn. but soon
I will be tattooing myself and this shop is gonna facilitate.
www.bodyelectrictattoo.com
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Friday, Mar 27, 2009 2:35PM /
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I must be alive and not dead.
thanks everyone for clicking me!!!
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Saturday, Mar 21, 2009 3:48AM /
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Friday, Mar 20, 2009 8:02AM /
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Sharing a work in progress.
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