![]() ![]() ![]() He and his girlfriend exemplified many of the locals we met at the convention, friendly, hard-working, and excited about good tattoos! The customer was a welder and tattoo fan who brought his own sketch up to be redrawn and endured the tattoo amid the chaotic convention conditions like a champ. Then on the final day of the convention I got to put a lot of what I had picked up in the seminar into practice on a big gypsy girl head I did. ![]() So the seminar was excellent, we got to ask questions and generally shoot the shit on a technical level with about 30 tattooers in a small conference room, some of the things discussed were totally new to me, some of my vague leanings confirmed and in general a desire to practice drawing the ladies (twist my arm!) was fired up. His tattoos are a master class in the power of restraint and simplicity. Lots of people whose work i aspired to now seems not so magical or technically advanced as it used to, but Chris’ stuff still awes me in its elegant simplicity and his ability to tell so much with so little. Not only was Chris one of the earliest inspiration for me in tattooing, his work is one of the few that has held me in awe exactly the same as it did 14 years ago when I began tattooing myself. The verdict is that they are two of the awesomest folks I’ve met through this crazy tattoo world.Īnother first was meeting Chris Conn and attending a workshop he was holding on how to draw and tattoo the female form. Cara and I always have fun traveling to and from conventions, but with these guys in the car it was great! the time flew and the conversation ran all over the place, I learned a lot and I’ve always felt that you could tell how you really feel about someone by being trapped in a car with them for a while. We drove there and back with our friends Jason Angst and Mel with whom we were splitting the booth and who set the whole ting up for us in the first place. Detroit also had the most efficient and nicest waitresses I’ve ever met. And while we did see plenty of dystopian scenery we also saw that the people living there were as vibrant and hopeful as anywhere. It was a weekend of firsts for Cara and I as we headed off to the Motor City tattoo expo, I have never been to Detroit before and I will admit to having a few preconceived notions, mainly that the city was a burned out shell of a former industrial giant. ![]()
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