Tiki masks are carved wooden masks representing the gods of the Hawaiian and Polynesian culture (Pacific Ocean tattoo style). They used to have different purposes such as warding off evil spirits and even improve the fertility of the owners! They hold such high importance in Polynesian culture that, along with other Tiki sculptures have become [...]

With some regularity  I ask myself; “do people become dumber?”. Obviously many people only use the internet to view photos. And if they see something they don’t know or understand then immediately and without hesitating they press the mail button! Old people of course, who really don’t  understand anything from the www (=world wide web). [...]

If you see a grown man with a tattoo of a monkey, from a cartoon, then you’re first thoughts will be that he has to be a very childish and that he must have been pretty drunk when he took that tattoo. This is a good example that the first impression of someone can be [...]

I often hear people of just 30 or 40 years old, saying they are too old for a tattoo. Where is the vitality of these people? I hear others say when you are “old” a tattoo looks ugly. For all these ‘hedonists’ I have news. Several years ago I made a tattoo on this man [...]

This customer wanted a tribal around her thigh, but luckily she gave me the confidence to make a little more feminine arts (if simple) and a few roses to get a more feminine effect. Incidentally a garter is nothing new it has existed for centuries. But a garter tattooed you see only rarely. A garter [...]

Every tattoo artist has ever tattooed a black panther, sometimes as simple cover on a name but a tiger is much less often chosen. Really strange because a tiger is much more colorful with a bit of skill also fine to use as a cover. This year I luckily tattooed already some tigers, possible because [...]

There are always customers you will never forget. So is there this Danish customer. For years, on his holiday, takes a tattoo by me. Until recently, every half hour the train with tourists passing to our studio in summer season fully loaded with tourists. I was already  a few hours tattooing this customer. Our conversations [...]

Not only the tattoo picture makes you’re proud but the whole tattoo ritual. It is a courage test along with a victory. It is therefore quite used, in ancient times, to people with tattoos had respect. This tradition started when the person was going from childhood to adult. The traditional process of tattooing was a [...]

Tattoo lovers during a holiday visit a tattoo studio just to take a look at the tattoo work and the studio, many of these have not the intention to take a tattoo. So also didn’t have this Dutch couple from Rotterdam. She only wanted some stars on the inside of her arm! She was certainly [...]

A tattoo is whatever it means to you. Many traditional tattoos do have historical symbolism, such as the koi fish, but in all reality the symbolism is unique to every person. In recent years I often put  a koi/karp inspired by traditional Japanese tattoos. Through my many years of experience I have the necessary knowledge [...]