“I was always drawing all the time, but I didn’t have any direction, really, to go with it,” recalls Piper, a local tattoo artist and author. “I got enrolled into the Colorado Institute of Art at one ...
Missouri was the first state to create a prison-based tattoo apprenticeship program in the U.S. Inmates apply and complete a 45-minute drawing test to participate in one of two programs in Missouri ...
Daniel Gonzales pressed a tattoo needle into Israel Ray Gaitan’s bare back, where a Mayan calendar spanned Gaitan’s shoulder blades. Gonzales had already logged 30 hours tattooing the elaborate design ...