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    Shane O'Neill is a very talented self-taught artist excelling in all mediums, but his true calling lies in the art of tattooing. He credits his brother with motivating him to learn how to tattoo. Shane's experience as a professional illustrator seemed like a natural transition into tattooing.

     

    He has a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the Philadelphia University of the Arts. He began tattooing in the spring of 1997. Shane specializes in realism, portraits, wildlife, and horror. He also has his own line of flash available for purchase. Shane travels around the country and internationally to tattoo conventions.

     

    While attending these events you can find him teaching seminars and producing some of his best work. Shane has been featured in many magazines and has won countless awards for his tattoos. He has achieved far more than he imagined and truly appreciates all of the recognition.

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    Hello my name is Nikko Hurtado I currently live in the High Desert. I work at a great shop with some of the greatest guys I know. I am very lucky to be surrounded with great people in my life that stand by me and push me. If you haven't figured it out yet this is my work on my Big Tattoo Planet page, so as you can see I am a tattoo artist and I love it. With the work you see here some of it is up to 4 years old and it is something I have been working very hard; blood, sweat, and tears.

     

    Since I started in 2002 I can't get enough of it and I plan to keep on going. My goals in my career as an artist are to push my own limits and boundaries and hopefully I can influence 1 or 2 people along the way as I have been influence by many others. I found myself being more critical of myself the longer I am in this profession. It is the greatest feeling to be passionate about what I do. I have met many great people along the way. Thanks Joanne for being so supportive."

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    Hey this is  Alex de Pase! I was born in the 1975, Italian tattoo artist, I’m a self-taught, and my interest and passion for tattoos come out more or less 20 years ago. Today I live and work in Grado, a small island in the north east of Italy, not so far from Venice. I never went to art school, but I studied arts and techniques by myself to use some artistic concepts that are proper of paintings in my tattoos.

    My passion for drawing was indeed passed over to me by my mum, when I was a child. At the time she used to paint a lot and I, always on her side, would scribble over paper and smear all furniture….

     

    Later on, however, I quitted drawing until I was 14, when I finally took up tattooing. My first clash with the tattoo world happened when I was 14 years old and I met a guy who had very many tattoos all over his body, which, 20 years ago, meant one thing only: prison! In fact this fellow learnt how to tattoo in jail, and since he told me that he was able to do tattoos I started begging him to teach me everything he knows about tattoos and tattooing, so he gave me the base skills for tattooing by hand with a bic pen melted with needles. For sure it was an hard impact, because since that i never quitted.
My way to see tattoos and tattooing changed a lot growing up!

     

    When I was a kid I look at tattoos and at the tattoo artist work like a rebellion against “normality” and prejudices. At that time where I live, people knows more or less nothing about tattoos, so people thought bad things about tattoo artists and people with tattoos, this made me even more proud to show my tattoos. I remember that I was dreaming about opening a tattoo shop, but at that time it seemed impossible to me to earn enough money to live painting and doing  what I love to do. I never thought that tattoo would have been slowly accepted by our culture, that, like today happens, more or less everyone likes tattoos and that today, after 20 years after my first approach, tattoo is considered a form of art like painting.

     

    Today for me it’s a passion that allows me to travel a lot, a work for I’m happy to wake up in the morning, a way to relax and challenge myself.
After some years of doing more or less everything in every style I started focusing on what I like more, realism and portraits. This kind of style has the artistic expression that I like more, and it have no limits in technical improvement. 
In my opinion, one of the most fascinating aspects of realism  is that it is actually much more than what it is thought to be by simply being a mere reproducion of something already exhisting. I believe it is wrong to think that working on realism  in arts means using techniques only.

     

    To tell the truth, indeed it encompasses  technique, and quite likely the most complex one, but also  sensibility, personal interpretation, capacity to perceive the colours, the details, the atmosphere and so on. Each single artist has a personal experience background and feelings that convey in  their ability to reproduce images, imprinting  their own atmosphere in the tattoo itself. The more the interest in whatever surrounds us grows,  the more we are able to go deeper into ourselves and catch their essence of things.

     

    As a natural result, our achievements are greater and greater. And this is the reason why every realism artist feels greatly rewarded the very moment he/she brings the work of art to a completion , but at the same time that feeling of personal reward   happens to be pretty momentary as, soon after, that same work of art will appear to his/her eyes as something already old and therefore to be improved further.


    Whoever is not subject to this mechanism has quite likely stopped thinking. It doesn't mean they have reached their tops.
In my case, as well as in the case of many other artists in this field, it is a never-ending run towards perfection, as I am fully aware that, nothwistanding how beautiful and “perfect” a reproduction may look, it will always be less beautiful than reality, at least for the time being…

     

    I'm organizing the 2nd World Wide Tattoo Conference in Chicago next april.

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    Born and raised in Southern California's San Fernando Valley. I recieved my first tattoo when I was 16 years old. That event opened the window to a whole new world for me. I've always been into art, I've loved everything about it! I always had a fondness for the realism style and would explore tattoo magazines during my early years, amazed at the portraiture work done by some of the great black and grey artists.

    I started tattooing professionally in 2003. As I progressed as a tattoo artist I soon realized that I found my niche with color realism. Constantly refining and polishing this craft  keeps me extremely busy and motivated to climb to the next level. A glimpse through my portfolio reveals my preference for wildlife and portrait tattoos. Although realism is the style I'm technically "known for," I do enjoy tattooing other styles and incorporating different aspects in my work to keep things fresh and interesting.

    In addition to owning and operating MD Tattoo Studio in Northridge, California, and Memento Publishing, where we market, publish and sell books that encompass a passion for the artistic lifestyle. I also keep busy as co-owner of Stencil Stuff, which is a company that offers Stencil Stuff and Spray Stuff, products that aid artists in achieving better tattoo results. The solutions are used by thousands of tattoo artists every day and I hope are a positive attribute to the tattoo industry. I am honored to be an award-winning artist, garnering approximately 130 awards in the first seven years that I have been tattooing. And the accomplishment I am most proud of is being happily married to my beautiful wife Serena, and a father to our awesome son, Kyle.

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