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Kenneth Smelser
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watercolor
gothic
black and gray
floral
Orange, United States
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Suggested reads
Article
The Slow Art of Tebori
Tracing the hand-carving method behind Japan's traditional tattoo canon: what the word means, where it came from, and why a handful of masters still keep it alive.
Article
Tattoo Ink Lymph Node Effects: What Happens Inside Your Body?
What current research says about tattoo pigment traveling through the lymphatic system, lymph-node swelling, inflammation, and cancer headlines.
Article
An Appreciation of Early Tattoo Collectors
Explore four early tattoo collectors and performers—Prince Constantine, the Great Omi, Nora Hildebrandt and Rusty Skuse—and their role in tattoo history.
Interview
In conversation with Liz Koss
Exploring spooky aesthetics, the science of aging ink, and the quiet power of drawing without a goal.
Interview
In conversation with Yi Shi
Wispy blackwork & custom tattoos open a conversation about creative freedom, client trust & emotional boundaries, with film and friendship offering other ways to sustain a creative life
Suggested studios
Pachuco Tattoo
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Fine Tattoo Work
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Blue Label Tattoo Shop
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Modo Ink Tattoo
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Ink activitiez 23
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Hollow & Bloom Tattoo
goshen, united states
Suggested artists
Mo
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Tylor
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B33IDE
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LUCINE
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Aylin Efendigil
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Jo
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