February 2, 2009 at 1:55 am #29005
    Sharpie_B
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    @sharpie_b

    I’m planning my next tatt. I’m either wanting a full sleeve or two half sleeves of some japanese work. I really like the koi and dragon. I have a plan of how I want it to be, as well as having the earth elements all around it. I just want to see if I could get some feedback of a great tattoo artist in the US that specializes in the japanese art, or is a phenomenal artist. Feel free to post links, picks, whatever. Thanks.

    February 12, 2009 at 4:24 pm #59875
    masky4452
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    @masky4452

    I have scheduled a 3/4 Koi sleeve to get worked on by Aaron Bell from Slave to the Needle(Seattle, WA). I think he does amazing Japanese work. Another person would be Aaron Della Vedova from Guru Tattoo(San Diego, CA), who does more Neo-Japanese work oppose to traditional. On the east coast, Chris O’Donnell who works out of New York. Kore Flatmo is another guy who does Neo-Japanese and it’s crazy what he can do and he’s out of Ohio. Two others I wanted to mention were Jill Bonny/Horiyuki and Horitaka from State of Grace Tattoo(San Jose, CA) and they do the most traditional Japanese tattooing….Horitaka a student of Horiyushi III. I know most of these artists have quite a wait until you can get work done, but they’re the best at what they do and these are the artists I admire most. Also check out their myspace to get more of their work. Hope this helps.

    http://www.plurabella.com/ …..(Flatmo)

    http://slavetotheneedle.com/ ….(Bell)

    http://www.gurutattoo.com/ ….(Della Vedova)

    http://www.nyadorned.com/ …..(O’Donnell)

    http://www.horitaka.com/ ….(Horitaka/Horiyuki)

    February 12, 2009 at 7:21 pm #59892
    Sharpie_B
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    @sharpie_b

    Cool. I’ll be deploying within the next few months, I’ll have plenty of time to research where I want to get it done. Thanks for the info.

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