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Tattoo Master 16
  • Hello, My Name Is: Paulo Cruzes
    The enquiring mind can have the ardour of discovering where future potentials lie. If ever somebody had the enthusiasm for exploring what will, in effect, be the times to come for tattooing as dictated by the tools we use, it has to be the prominent...
  • Hannah Westcott
    In a world that is traditionally male dominated, it is refreshing to see new, young female blood bringing new ideas to tattooing. Hannah hasn’t been around very long, but she has already shown that all it really takes is the determination and...
  • Alison Henry's Keepsake Cakes
    Alison designs cakes and loves her tattoos, so much so that she combines the two together. I asked her to make me a tattoo themed cake as I’m sure nobody’s ever featured cakes in a tattoo mag before, but what a great way to get a tattoo-related...
  • Xed Le Head - The Geometric Genius
    This article was originally cobbled together by myself and Paulo when we did an interview at Divine Canvas. It really is a fascinating read, because Xed actually took the manuscript and rewrote it the way he wanted everything to be said. Myself and...
  • Paul Andrews - Validation, Certification, Sterilisation
    Autoclaves are an essential part of a working, licensed and professional set-up. There are few areas that can define a scratcher better than someone who doesn’t have the correct apparatus in place for the effective sterilisation of used equipment.
  • Chris 'Mr. Chris' Harrison
    The most immediately noticeable characteristic about Chris ‘Mr. Chris’ Harrison is his infectiously upbeat and generally philosophical view of the world. And why not really – if you think about it, the world is your oyster. With a competitive,...
  • Tutorial: Painting - Jason Frieling
    With this, the first of two tutorials from Jason Frieling and with continued education and hard work constantly on his mind, he shows us how to create values, richness and edges that go a long way towards explaining the techniques that this master...
  • Start to Finish: 3D Tutorial - Jason Frieling
    In Jason Frieling’s second tutorial he takes us into the world of 3D, creating an alien that is so deep and rich in texture and tone that this project may find some people scared to move forward. But thanks to Jason’s no nonsense approach, it soon...
  • Aasen Stephenson - Tattooed Shoes
    You may remember some time back that Selfridges on Oxford Street in London had introduced tattooing to its store. Well, I got to hear about a project that involved a young artist, Aasen Stephensen, who was using a tattoo machine to engrave Sailor...
  • TatSoul's Testament to Production Line Tools
    If you have been a regular reader of Tattoo Master, you won’t have failed to notice that Tatsoul Spearman have been a consistent contributor. Having already interviewed Phillip, I thought I would take a look at some of the products that his...
  • Tutorial: Two Lights Make a Dark - Chris Garcia
    If ever there was a reason to explore the tutorials in Tattoo Master, this article is it. The pure theory that Chris Garcia puts forward so eruditely will have you getting more from your colour work in no time. And your customers will wonder at the...
  • Carnival Sign - Richard 'The Steel'
    Back in the last issue I brought to your attention the work of Richard The Steel. He’s a chap I’ve known for some time now – he drives hot rods, is a real cool cat, and has done a lot of the metal work in my shop too. And now starting a new venture...
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Tattoo Master 15
  • Hello, My Name Is: Curly
    I recently sat in with Curly and his partner, Jackie, at Oxford’s Tattoo Club of Great Britain. Individually they possess some of the biggest, most striking tattoo art imaginable. And together they are breathtaking and balanced.
  • Lionel Titchener - Tattoo Club of Great Britain
    When I was a boy, which was a long time ago, everybody knew that the only place on the planet to have a tattoo was in Oxford at either Bob ‘Eagle’ Smith’s Studio or Lionel’s Tattoo Club of Great Britain. Of course there were other tattooists in the...
  • Justin Mariani - Human Canvas Tattoo Studio
    Although he’s been tattooing for over eight years now, I only became aware of Justin Mariani about 18 months ago when I saw some of the beautiful colour realism pieces he had been producing with his new Dragonfly machines. Since then we have kept in...
  • Rotaries Are Back - Rotary Works
    I recently met Dale and got a view of his tattooing rotaries. These are some of the most attractive yet simple machines I have had the pleasure to hold in my hands. Clearly displaying a clear pride in his machines, I asked Dale to explain in his own...
  • Tattoo Machines & Pies - Derek Campbell
    This is the magnificent and thoroughly larger than life Derek Campbell and his tattoo machines. One of my favourite interviews thus far, simply because as he free wheeled on like a veteran raconteur, the hearty chatter was brilliantly comical. Read...
  • Kneill Brown - Smoking Ace Tattoo Studio
    I have known Kneill Brown for 20 years. He has always been a tattooist that I admired greatly due to the fact that he lives the dream and is therefore a genuine, real example of the world promised to us when we discover tattoo art for the first time.
  • Toni Moore - Broad Street Tattoo, Bath
    The world of tattooing continues to evolve with a dizzying array of new products, studios and youthful talent driving it along. I have said for some time that the ladies will take over tattooing from us men as we really underestimate the gentle...
  • Tutorial: Making Sensible Cover-Ups - Joey Hamilton
    Proudly, we’ve managed to get three of the very talented artists from Club Tattoo in Las Vegas to show us some of the very clever techniques that have put them at the top of their game. This is their first art class; a further two classes will...
  • Needle Runner - Steve Cutter
    Imagine a small, cheap, easy to fit, tiny plastic device that could do away with the elastic band for tattoo machines!
  • Are You INKsured?
    Insurance is a subject that would be a long way down the list of priorities when dealing with running a tattoo business, but we know from our 20 years of trading experience, that it is very important. There is one practice that has been at the...
  • Start to Finish: Reveresals & Reflections
    I recently met a customer who wasn’t happy with his mirror image tattoos. It turned out that the tattooist didn’t know how to reverse the first tattoo in order to create a reflected second tattoo, and had therefore left said customer with a botched...
  • Tutorial: Backpiece Colour Study with Mike Young
    This watercolour piece was created as a colour study for a backpiece tattoo I am currently working on. Although I don’t always do a full colour study for every large tattoo I start, I do try to do every new painting with as much care and attention...
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Tattoo Master 14
  • Hello, My Name Is: Paul Acker
    At only 29 years of age, Paul Acker has become one of the world’s must respected artists in the field of horror realism. Locked into a sinister world of b-movie icons and slasher flick imagery, his tattoos are as vibrant and detailed as he himself...
  • Adriaan Machete - Machete Ink Gallery
    A Mexican artist, trained in Spain and now making his home in Berlin, Adriaan Machette is not only well travelled, but he is also one of the nicest guys I have ever met. While deceptively simple, his distinctive style has been honed through years of...
  • Start to Finish: Chris Lowe - Parrot Fashion
    I am fortunate enough to have watched American artist, Chris Lowe, tattoo a couple of times now. And each time I have been impressed both with the calmness with which he works, and his undying belief in the relatively unknown Bishop rotary machine....
  • Start to Finish: Phatt German - Cracking the Whip
    If someone would have told me a year ago that I would do a tutorial with a rotary machine, I’d probably just laugh. I used to be really stubborn and afraid of trying new things, so going from a heavy diesel-driven coil machine to a super-light...
  • Swede Dreams - Jacob Pedersen
    I first met Swedish artist Jacob Pedersen in 2011 when I invited him to Tattoo Freeze in Telford as my guest. I was instantly won over by his warmth and openness as well as his total commitment to professionalism. At the time he had caught my eye...
  • When Traditional Gets Real - Timmy B, Black 13 Tattoo Parlour
    As always, every Guest Editor gets to choose which friends and colleagues he wants to share his issue with. This time around Paul Acker has opted to interview Nashville based artist, Timmy B. Within the last few years, Timmy has been causing a stir...
  • Swashdrive Whip
    Best known for their Gen 7 machines and their pioneering use of swash plate technology within tattoo machines, it came as something of a surprise this year when the chaps at Swashdrive revealed the Whip; a new rotary that uses a Maxon motor instead...
  • Bishop Rotary - Franco Vescovi
    Franco Vescovi talks openly about the ‘Bishop’, his enduring love of rotaries as tattooing tools, and even briefly about his plans to reveal yet another new machine in December of this year.
  • Loic Lavenu (Xoil) - Needles Side Tattoo
    Loïc, from Needles Side in the town of Thonon les Bains, France, is one of the pioneers of graphic style tattoo work. His designs are reflective of his own innate design sensibilities, eye for balance and composition. He takes his clients’ (possibly...
  • The Erotic Collection by Paulo Cruzes
    Oh my word! At this year’s London Tattoo Convention, Paulo Cruzes unveiled what most surely be one of the most outrageous and gratuitous tattoo machines of all time.
  • The Second Coming - Hawk Spirit
    When Cheyenne first introduced their revolutionary HAWK tattoo machine to the industry a few years ago, the company had their work more than cut out trying to convince artists that their machine represented a viable alternative to the more...
  • Tattoo Jam 2011 - Photo Album
    A visual round-up of all the action from the 2011 edition of Tattoo Jam...
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