Tattoo Antics

How to Pick a Tattoo Artist

Tattooing is a hot trend and there are many tattoo shops to pick from. While looking for a tattoo artist you need to pick one you trust so here are a few suggestions for picking a top notch artist. While we would love if everyone reading this could visit our tattoo parlor in Naples, we want everyone to have a positive tattoo experience regardless of where they get their tattoo done.

Remember once you get a tattoo done, it will remain on you for a long time. So, the artistic and communication skills of a tattoo artist will definitely matter. Hence, rushing to tattoo parlors at random is not the smartest thing to do. Try the following tips for getting the best artist to do the coolest tattoo for you.

Different ways of finding the best tattoo artist

Word of Mouth Ask for recommendations from friends who had a good experience getting their tattoo. Tattoo artists with the quality and skill from these shops should be your first choice.

Dropping at various tattoo shops

If you do not have good references, visit the tattoo parlors yourself to find out which artist has your favorite designs. You can get a feel of the style of artist by asking him about his portfolio the sterilization process and looking at his sample art.  

Surfing the net

Before you visit various tattoo shops, you can even get an idea of reputable tattoo parlors from the internet along with samples of their design styles. By seeing their samples you can shortlist 3 or 4 tattoo shops and then visit them for to see which studio is the cleanest and friendliest.

Even if you get your tattoo done from parlors other than our tattoo shop in Naples, we want people to get the coolest tattoo possible. Ideally, you should choose the artist with whom you feel most comfortable. Just be sure the artist is licensed and their studio is clean so you don not end up with an infection or something worse.

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Tattoo Machine (Paperback) $14.73 Jeff Johnson has been a tattoo artist for almost twenty years, and he has watched his clientele transform from bikers and thugs into frat boys and soccer moms. But Johnson`s shop in Portland, Oregon, remains a magnet for miscreants and malefactors, as testified by some of the shocking anecdotes he shares in this memoir. Some of his more memorable clients include a pack of heavily armed gangsters who make him so nervous that he misspells one of their tattoos and a likely serial killer who has the social security numbers of his victims permanently etched under his skin. In between his war stories, Johnson reveals the secrets to his lasting success in a rapidly changing business and offers essential wisdom for anyone considering getting ink done.

Tattoo $16.82 Ken, a Japanese man raised in Hawaii, tells his story to his cellmate Cal, a white formerly racist tattoo artist who lost his voice when his throat was cut in a prison fight and who has become a trusted confidente due to his inability to speak.

Tattoo (Paperback) $23.67 Featuring some of the most important contemporary tattoo artists who are making cutting-edge graphics, typography, and customized artistic masterpieces. Tatt Book: Visionaries of Tattoo is a unique collection of the designs of the most creative contemporary tattoo artists from around the world. These contemporary tattooists are, first and foremost, artists creating tattoo designs inked on the human body as well as works for galleries and personal collections. Curated by the renowned artist JK5 and including work from over twenty distinguished artists, such as Stephanie Tamez, Mike Giant, and Scott Harrison, Tatt Book explores the intricate customized body art and also the artwork these “inking” geniuses do outside the tattoo studio. This will be an indispensable reference catalogue for type forms, illustration, fine art, and design in a time where tattoos are a mark of personal creativity and individuality.       

Tattoo Design Directory (Hardcover) $13.22 A pictorial resource on the ancient art of tattooing features tattoo designs arranged by subject with information on the history and meaning of each category.

Tattoo Sketchbook (Hardcover) $28.81 In recent years, the “tattoo artist sketchbook” has become a valuable resource for great tattoo ideas and designs. Although Jim Watson’s tattoo style is normally recognized for being bright and colorful, these sketches show the reader the drawing technique and sketching process of a tattoo artist. The pages contain valuable reference sketches for tattoo artists, and is a great source for easy-to-copy, and easy-to-perform tattoo designs. For anyone who needs to tattoo a “Mom” across a traditional heart, or “Harley-Davidson” down someone’s arm, Jim provides a variety or simple and elaborate “fonts” so you’re sure to have the correct type style for a given situation. Produced on heavy paper with a hard cover, Jim’s personal sketches are bound so the book lays flat on a table, all the better to fully study and utilize the numerous images. This collection will help everyone from new artists to journeymen; as well as their clients, to select (and, if needed, modify) the tattoo that they want and need.

12 TATTOO DECAL sticker DECAL sticker (Vertical) tattoos shop artist $9.99 This 4.5 x 12 decal is printed on premium grade exteror vinyl perfect for outdoor use for 5+ years or will look great inside. All decals are supplied with application film for easy installation. These will stick to any smooth surface – aluminum, glass, stainless steel, wood or plexiglass. All sizes are approx. You can’t go wrong with a SignMission decal!

12 TATTOO DECAL sticker shop artist gun neon $9.99 This 4.5 x 12 decal is printed on premium grade exteror vinyl perfect for outdoor use for 5+ years or will look great inside. All decals are supplied with application film for easy installation. These will stick to any smooth surface – aluminum, glass, stainless steel, wood or plexiglass. All sizes are approx. You can’t go wrong with a SignMission decal!

36 TATTOO DECAL sticker DECAL sticker (Vertical) tattoos shop artist $24.99 This 14 x 36 decal is printed on premium grade exteror vinyl perfect for outdoor use for 5+ years or will look great inside. All decals are supplied with application film for easy installation. These will stick to any smooth surface – aluminum, glass, stainless steel, wood or plexiglass. All sizes are approx. You can’t go wrong with a SignMission decal!

48 TATTOO DECAL sticker shop artist gun neon $34.99 This 18 x 48 decal is printed on premium grade exteror vinyl perfect for outdoor use for 5+ years or will look great inside. All decals are supplied with application film for easy installation. These will stick to any smooth surface – aluminum, glass, stainless steel, wood or plexiglass. All sizes are approx. You can’t go wrong with a SignMission decal!

Bear Necessities $15 Once a Bear sets his mind on a mission, it”s best to stay out of his way. Alexander Bunny Bunsun is that Bear. Something”s not right with his cousin Chloe, and he”s come to Halle, Pennsylvania, to sort it out. Until an enticing scent lures him into the local tattoo shop.

Branded As Trouble $15 As a walking advertisement for the tattoo shop she s set up in a small Wyoming town, India Ellison is well acquainted with preconceived notions. Despite the odd looks, life is good. She s clean and sober, dotes on her sister s kids and, best of all, spends most of her free time with her best buddy, Colt McKay. Reformed bad boy Colt never expected three years of sobriety to lead to three years of abstinence. Curbing his craving for booze and random sexual encounters, however, is nothing compared to the ever-increasing craving for his hot-tempered, hot-bodied best friend, India. Too bad she s his A.A. sponsor. Too bad she hasn t a clue that he s been head-over-bootheels in love with her from day one. After an unexpected, steamy interlude, all India can think about is riding the sexy cowboy instead of her motorcycle. Or are they risking their friendship for a fling that could burn them both?

Butcher Bird $14.95 Spyder Lee is a happy man who lives in San Francisco and owns a tattoo shop. One night an angry demon tries to bite his head off before he’s saved by a stranger. The demon infected Spyder with something awful – the truth. He can suddenly see the world as it really is: full of angels and demons and monsters and monster-hunters. A world full of black magic and mysteries. These are the Dominions, parallel worlds full of wonder, beauty and horror. The Black Clerks, infinitely old and infinitely powerful beings whose job it is to keep the Dominions in balance, seem to have new interests and a whole new agenda. Dropped into the middle of a conflict between the Black Clerks and other forces he doesn’t fully understand, Spyder finds himself looking for a magic book with the blind swordswoman who saved him. Their journey will take them from deserts to lush palaces, to underground caverns, to the heart of Hell itself.

Buzz Riff: A Novel of Crime $5.93 After his successful debut in Buzz Monkey, Top Kiernan is back. Only life in Athens, Georgia has grown more complicated. His former office manager (and ex-lover) has stolen half his clients and set up shop on her own. Top’s no longer banking big bucks as an operative for Shaw’s Mercantile Marine, which has found his addiction to the adrenaline buzz a dangerous risk. He’s six months behind in mortgage payments, and Fourth Federal is set to foreclose. So, for all his objections-the job’s too small, the client’s a racist-has no choice, really. He needs the twenty thousand. All he has to do is recover a Confederate battle flag-the one that stanched General Stonewall Jackson’s wounds when he was fatally shot on May 2, 1863, and in that instant became an American relic of incalculable value. Top’s search for the flag takes him and his friends on a raucous jaunt from Athens to the mansion of a multimillionaire stripper-turned-car-dealer to an armed compound in the Okefenokee Swamp to a tattoo convention. In between, they outwit and outrun obsessive collectors, bikers, ATF agents, the KKK, and more. It’s not exactly the way to beat an adrenaline habit.

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Jack’s Black Book $7.99 An uproarious companion to Heads or Tails and Jack’s New Power According to his new motto — A writer’s job is to turn his wost experiences into money — Jack Henry is going to be filthy rich even before he gets out of junior high, for his life is filled with the worst experiences imaginable. In the course of a few months covered in this cycle of interlinked stories, Jack is humiliated by a gorgeous synchronized swimmer, gets a tattoo the size of an ant on his big toe, flibs an IQ test and nearly fails wood shop, and has to dig up his dead dog not once but twice. And that’s not the half of it. But, as School Library Journal put it, Jack’s a survivor, an ‘everyboy’ whose world may be wacko but whose heart and spirit are eminently sane. Jack may not end up rolling in dough, but he, along with his humorously off-kilter family, always keeps on trying.

Mens 50s Greaser Costume $24.99 The Men’s 50′s Greaser Costume clearly demonstrates the difference between the clean cut guys and the greasers. In the 50s there were the jock and the greasers. The Greasers spent their time at school in auto shop and their nights drag racing. As adults, they were shop mechanics and blue collar guys. Greasers had a bad boy attitude and wee all about looking and acting cool. This Men’s 50s Greaser Costume features a printed shirt with flames around the bottom and a Greaser Shop logo on the chest, a tattoo sleeve and a black 50′s style greaser wig. Simply add you own pair of worn out black or blue jeans.

Smut $4.98 Wide eyed Marty O’Neil (Lee Homes) takes to the road on a quest to give his life meaning. When his motorcycle breaks down outside an adult bookstore in small town America, Marty takes a job at the store to make money to fix his bike. While struggling to understand the gruff owner (Max Boone Junior) Marty befriends Elmore (Melvin Van Peebles) an old beet poet who frequents the shop and becomes enamored with Mary Jane (Jenette Goldstein) the cynical stripper who stars in the stores peep show booth.Between hours at work Marty bonds with Bav (Meredith Scott Lynn) a tattoo artist/inspiring business guru who becomes fascinated with video interviews Marty has been collecting of patrons from the bookstore. Sensing a financial opportunity Bav transforms them into a film called The Freak Show , which becomes a small town hit and catches the attention of Tex Scram (Maxwell Caulfield) a charming yet nasty used car dealer who wants to covet Marty’s movie along with everything else he owns in town and Mrs. Maplethorpe (Kirsten Nelson), a conservative house wife who wants to save Marty’s soul. Battle lines are drawn and humor ensues as Marty discovers the meaning of his quest in one simple question What is Smut ?

Street Shop Tattoo Stencils $24.99 Learn the proper techniques in creating and applying a tattoo stencil through an illustrated step-by-step guide. A gallery of original illustrations created by the authors for their clients, displays the new direction of skin art from an artist”s perspect

Tattoo Machine $15 A behind-the-scenes tour of the tattoo industry by shop proprietor and tattoo artist, Jeff Johnson.

Tattoo: Behind the Needle $21.64 Tattoo – Behind the Needle, takes the reader into the shop of 12 talented young tattoo artists. This is an opportunity to learn how and where each artist learned his or her skills, who they turn to for inspiration, and exactly how they create bright, colorful, living tattoos. Tattoo – Behind the Needle, includes interviews with well-known artists like Brandon Bond, Amanda Wachob, Shannon Schober and Nate Beavers. Each has a distinctive style, a unique philosophy, and a very personal approach to tattoo art. Joy Surles, former editor of Skin Art magazine, gives each artist one chapter to explain who they are and what they do. A series of bright photographs illustrate in pictures what Joy and the artists convey in words. The interviews, combined with photos of the artist at work, help to make this more than just a book about tattoos. Tattoo, Behind the Needle, is more like spending a day, one on one, with Brandon Bond or Amanda Wachob.

The Tattoo Artist $7.96 In 1970, Sara Ehrenreich boards a small plane and returns to New York City with much fanfare; she will be featured in Life magazine. She has not left Ta’un’uu-the South Seas island upon which she and her husband, Philip, were marooned during a storm-in more than thirty years. Sara doesn’t know that man has landed on the moon. She has never seen a ballpoint pen. Her body is covered, head to toe, in tattoos. Flashback: it’s 1918 and Sara, a shop girl and aspiring artist, meets Philip, a wealthy member of the avant-garde elite. The two fall in love, marry, and collaborate to make art, surrounded by socialites and revolutionaries-until the Depression cripples not just Sara and Philip, but most of their patrons. When Philip is offered a job gathering masks from the South Seas, they jump at a chance to escape America’s sorrows, traveling to Ta’un’uu for what they think will be a week’s stay. The rest is history-a history Sara records on her skin through the traditional tattoos that become her masterpiece and provide an accounting of her days. Narrated in vivid and starkly moving prose, The Tattoo Artist reminds us of the unforeseeable forces that shape each human life.

X-Men Noir $14.99 The coroner”s men flipped the redheaded corpse over so Dukes and Magnus from Homicide could get a better look at her. ”Better” being a relative term in this case, with the claw marks that slashed her face into a featureless, bloody mask and turned her guts into a butcher shop explosion. But the tattoo – the simple, encircled ”X” above the left shoulder blade – remained intact, and Dukes pointed it out with the toe of his wingtip once Peter the rookie was done heaving up lunch. See this ink? he said. Means she did time at this reform school upstate, run by this shrink, Xavier… Collects X-Men Noir #1-4.

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