Tatto Licious in Honolulu (was visiting my daughter who is stationed there – Army). Sean McCready, the owner, did the work.
Originally a newer artist there, Andy, did the original artwork. Andy was to do my daughter and I back to back. When we arrived to get the work done, Sean who was booked through mid September had a weird series of cancellations that day and took me on. We tweaked Andy’s work just a tad and he inked me while Andy tattoo’d my daughter.
“Traditional Art” – the artist stated clearly to me that was his forte. We were discussing the industry (and his shop) while he worked on me. I’m a CPA so I always like to talk business.
He hired a a woman in his shop who does some very colorful and exotic tattoos. As a shop owner he knows he needs to provide all types of tattoo art to be successful, and I was also impressed that he admitted his limitations. He said it’s not that he couldn’t do all kinds of tattos as he is a very good artist, but he knows there are other “specialists” who have niched themselves to certain types of work.
@metalmancpa 92606 wrote:
Hi All. I finally got my first tattoo.
Here were my simple ground rules: striking eagle design, small (easily covered by a short sleeved shirt)
I had consultations with 2 artists and they both concurred that because of my size requirement the tattoo could not be extravagantly detailed because of the risk of detail loss over time.
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^^^What? The part of that statement that’s making me scratch my head is the “loss of detail over time”. I just don’t get what they’re saying because the size of the piece, the detail inside of it, as well as detail over time are independent of eachother….maybe what the artists were saying was that they weren’t comfortable trying to squeeze more detail into the size constraint. Sounds like they tried to squeak in a little lie instead of just saying they couldn’t do it. (this is just me being critical of what the artists said, not the overall result)
ANYWAY… The ink turned out well, and so did your daughter’s!
–tom
Hi All. I finally got my first tattoo.
Here were my simple ground rules: striking eagle design, small (easily covered by a short sleeved shirt)
I had consultations with 2 artists and they both concurred that because of my size requirement the tattoo could not be extravagantly detailed because of the risk of detail loss over time.
QUOTE]
^^^What? The part of that statement that’s making me scratch my head is the “loss of detail over time”. I just don’t get what they’re saying because the size of the piece, the detail inside of it, as well as detail over time are independent of eachother….maybe what the artists were saying was that they weren’t comfortable trying to squeeze more detail into the size constraint. Sounds like they tried to squeak in a little lie instead of just saying they couldn’t do it. (this is just me being critical of what the artists said, not the overall result)
ANYWAY… The ink turned out well, and so did your daughter’s!
–tom
Thanks.
What I got out of the detail/size comments in the consultation from the artist was that since I wanted the entire eagle in a smaller size, that if detailed line work was done within the wings/head that the lines would be so close togther that they would blend and lose detail quicker if I didn’t enlarge the overall piece. I did a little research after that and I concurred that it was a risk. He was very clear with me that he could do more detail, but since I told him longevity was also important to me he felt his approach with the shading would do a nice job of giving me what I wanted with a better chance of it holding itself over a longer period of time.
This artist (sean McCready) came highly recommended in Hawaii (Oahu) even though there isn’t a lot of info on him on the net, so I still do believe what he said even though I am really new to this.
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