Booth 01 · 9 years
Sloane Reyes
Fine line, single needle, script. Small, deliberate, almost invisible, and drawn with more space between the lines than the reference usually has, because the reference was photographed in week two and the tattoo has to work at year fifteen.
Takes the most first tattoos of anyone here, and thinks that is the right way round: short sessions, quick heals, and a low-stakes way to learn how your skin behaves.
Fine line work →
from $400 · 2 hr min · ~8 wk
Booth 02 · 14 years
Marek Cole
Blackwork, ornamental, large scale. One piece per session and one session per day, which is a scheduling policy that exists entirely to protect saturation: black that gets rushed is grey in three years.
Draws on the body in marker before anything is drawn on paper, so the composition follows your anatomy rather than a flat template.
Blackwork →
from $800 · 4 hr min · ~10 wk
Booth 04 · 5 years
River Tate
Geometric, sacred, dotwork. Measures on the body before a needle goes near it, because symmetry across a curved surface is a drawing problem before it is a tattooing one.
Books about a year out and the list is currently closed. It reopens in spring; the waitlist is the only way in and there is no charge to join it.
Geometric work →
from $600 · 3 hr min · list closed
Booth 05 · 11 years
Hana Yamamoto
Illustrative, narrative, cover-up. Multi-figure compositions, full backs, half sleeves that tell one story instead of collecting six. An hour of talking before any sketching, which is not padding: the brief changes in that hour more often than not.
Leads cover-up consults with Marek, and is the one most likely to tell you the piece you came in for is not the piece you want.
Cover-up work →
from $600 · 3 hr min · ~8 wk