I'm a 28 year old apprenticing tattooist in Portland, Oregon. I la-la-love mythology, iconography, history, monsters, funerary and mourning customs through the ages, glamor, horror, blasphemy, and the macabre! I work mainly in pen & ink, watercolor, and acrylic, but jump at any chance I have to learn a new medium. ! My favorite artists include (but are by NO means limited to) Alphonse Mucha, Mike Mignola, Heironymous Bosch, Gustave Dore, Pierre & Gilles, Harry Clarke, Dave McKean, Jill Thompson, Rozz Williams, and on, and on... Feel free to give me some feedback, ask questions, or just say hi!
Favourite Visual Artist
Aubrey Beardsley, Alphonse Mucha, Heironymous Bosch, Mike Mignola, Joel-Peter Witkin, Pierre & Gilles, Jill Thompson, Gustave Dore, Harry Clarke, Arthur Rackham, Francisco Goya
Favourite Movies
Caligula, The Return of the Living Dead, God Bless America, Sleepy Hollow, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Sebastiane, Edward Scissorhands, Hocus Pocus, Return of the Jedi (til Jabba dies), Marie Antoinette, Velvet Goldmine
Favourite TV Shows
The Venture Brothers, The Munsters, The Twilight Zone, Community, Futurama, Strangers With Candy, The Addams Family
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Rasputina, Depeche Mode, Christian Death, Scissor Sisters, Siouxsie & the Banshees, SSION, Adam & the Ants, The Cure, Chicks on Speed, The Dresden Dolls, Kerli, Bauhaus
Favourite Books
Reference books!, The Sandman, Drawing Blood, Jitterbug Perfume, Paradise Lost, American Gods, A Wrinkle in Time, The Book of Disquiet, Good Omens, A Clockwork Orange, Frankenstein, Disco Bloodbath
Favourite Writers
Neil Gaiman, Oscar Wilde, William S. Burroughs, Poppy Z. Brite, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Suetonius, Clive Barker
Favourite Games
Candyland, Rolling hoops down the road with a stick
Favourite Gaming Platform
Ummm, I have a lot of platform shoes and boots...do those count?
Tools of the Trade
Pen & Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Makeup, Tattoo Machine, Pencil
Other Interests
Halloween, Funerary/Mourning Customs, Mythology, Archetypes, Symbols, Monsters, Sex, Glamor, Anachronism, Blasphemy