Uncle Allan is awesome. Seriously awesome. I’m not biased, either. Sure, I actually do have an uncle named Allan, but he isn’t a wicked tattoo artist like this one. Still, my uncle Allan is a pretty cool guy. But I digress.
Uncle Allan does the majority of his tattoo work from Conspiracy Inc. Tattoo in Copenhagen, Denmark. He’s a 31-year-old artist who is full of life, travelling regularly and pulling off some of the finest tattoo work that anyone could ask for. At the moment however, Uncle A is no longer taking bookings because he’s just so damn busy.
Besides his tattoo work, Uncle Allan does a lot of travelling about the world and while he’s travelling, he takes photos. His photos of different spots and objects around the world are great, thanks in no small part to his artist’s eye.
He keeps both a lively blog and a MySpace page with more information about himself and his busy life than I could ever tell you.
Uncle Allan’s work uses lots of colour and vibrancy, even when he seems to be tattooing the most dark and evil looking images. Still, his use of colour in no way diminishes the impact of his art and I’m sure that anyone who is lucky enough to sport an Uncle Allan tattoo will tell (and show you) the exact same thing.
I want to go to Denmark.
Desa has been tattooing professionally since 1997. In his early, formative years, Desa says that graffiti played a relatively large influence on his tattoo style. These days however, graffiti tattoos don’t interest him, although he does admit to trying to bring a little of the graffiti style back into his tattoo work, in terms of colour combinations and blends. What does interest him more now, seems to come from outside of tattooing:
“Now, more so, I look outside of tattooing, like Henry Darger, Fred Stonehouse, Mexican art. It doesn’t really show up in the tattoos, but there’s a hint. Mentally, I am thinking about some of their stuff, and trying to bring back some of my graffiti influence; as far as color combinations and blends, but not necessarily graffiti. I don’t really like doing graffiti tattoos.”
From a stylistic point, Desa’s favourite work is American Traditional, however, as with all great tattoo artists, he can pretty much pull everything off. Portrait work is the only tattoo form that he will refuse to do, as he believes that anyone seeking out a portrait tattoo should go to a portrait tattoo specialist. Makes perfect sense to me: an artist that is aware of their boundaries is in my books, a wise one.
Mario can be found at The Chicago Tattooing and Piercing Co, in Chicago, illinois. His hours are as follows:
Lastly, you can check out his tattoo work, artwork and prints by visiting his website, Permanent Luxury.
After much hard work and planning, Sylvia opened up his first tattoo shop, American Graffiti, with fellow tattoo artist and friend Eric Hogan. Sylvia was in his early 20’s at the time and working like a madman when the offer to work for Marcus Pacheco at Primal Urge came along. During this time, Scott worked on perfecting his own style while also gaining a new and fresh outlook on tattooing by being immersed in the creative environment in which he found himself in.
As of 2004, Sylvia works in San Francisco at Blackheart Tattoo, which he owns and runs with fellow artists Jeff Rassier and Tim Lehi. Scott is apparently one of the innovators of the “American Power” style that is a modern play on the Classic American tattoo style. The buoyant and deeply colourful pop that make up Sylvia’s work can be seen all over the American Power style, giving an otherwise classical look a completely lush and original beauty. I don’t think it’s any exaggeration to say that fans of tattoos and tattoo artists alike have a lot to thank Scott Sylvia for.
Take a look at some of his stuff, here.
Scott Sylvia started working in a tattoo shop as a teenager, after his good friend Aaron Cain got him a job. Aaron showed some of Scott’s drawings to the owner of the tattoo studio where he worked and that was that. From then on, Scott Sylvia has worked his ass off, following his own personal mantra of “work fucking hard at everything you do and stay inspired.” I can’t think of much better advice for anyone, anywhere. That just sums it all up.
After searching unsuccessfully for quite some time online for even a little bit of information on tattoo artist Ben Corn, I came to this conclusion: Ben Corn seems to be a man of few words. Which is okay, I guess, considering that he makes his living tattooing and not giving speeches about himself. So while there may not be a lot of biographical information about Ben out there, there are a lot of photos of his work to be found, which is pretty much the most important thing.
Therefore, I’m not going to be able to tell you much about Ben Corn. I don’t know what his favourite food is or if he has any pets or what music he likes to listen to. I’m sorry if you’re upset by this news. What I can tell you is that Ben Corn’s hometown is Norco, California, he’s 33-years-old, he works full time at Big Bear Tattoo in Big Bear Lake, California and he has been known to tattoo over at Mark Mahoney’s Shamrock Social Club in West Hollywood, California. Oh yeah, he’s also a phenomenal tattoo artist.
Big is the first word that comes to mind when I look at Corn’s work. Everything feels larger than life - the sort of work I would expect to have seen on a viking or a pirate way back in the day. Skulls, ships, huge black and grey scenes of chaos and beauty. Corn’s work does it all with a smooth and detailed depth that explains why he doesn’t say much about himself - he’s too busy kicking ass with his monster works.
Go Ben, Go.
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