On custom tattoo design, large-scale composition, fine art, and 25 years of making permanent things.
Rate is the number people compare. Hours are the number that determines what you actually pay — why a lower hourly rate often costs more in the end, and what to ask instead.
Read →Fall and winter are the better window for large-scale work in San Diego, and it has almost nothing to do with tradition — it's about sun, water, and how long a sleeve really takes.
Read →Thoughts from a professional tattoo artist of 25 years: what actually makes a great tattoo artist — drawing, technique, how tattoos age, and designing for the body.
Read →How thinking about full-body composition — even for a single piece — leads to better tattoos at every scale. The discipline behind bodysuit thinking and why it matters even if you only ever get one tattoo.
Read →A breakdown of what actually sets custom illustrative tattooing apart — what custom means, what illustrative means, and why scale changes everything about how a piece needs to be designed.
Read →From Tahiti Felix's in 2000 to founding Remington Tattoo in 2011 — what two and a half decades of tattooing actually looks like, what's changed, and what hasn't.
Read →How a practice in oil painting, sculpture, and illustration — including shows at Modern Eden and La Luz de Jesus — directly shapes the way I approach tattoo design.
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