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Kirt Silver Billy Decola on the COVER KYLE COSMAN TATTOO & CULTURE MAGAZINE ON THE COVER KYLE COSMAN Kirt Silver Billy DeCola AND MORE STORIES FROM WEST COAST ARTISTS Men of Venice Beach Kyle Corbin Noah Valinsky Qwentell Paulings PLUS: Ink by SAGA The History of American Traditional Tattooing MODELS ALICIA NICOLE ISSUE 3 | 2014 JOSH MARIO JOHN 16 INDEX. 06 12 29 20 18 05 - DARKHORSE TATTOO 12 - SEAN ANDERSON 20 - THE MEN OF VENICE BEACH West Shore’s brand new tattoo and Find out the story behind Sean’s West Coast Ink travels to Los Angeles piercing shop. creativity and passion for art. to explore the tattoo community. 06 - KIRT SILVER 16 - KYLE COSMAN 28 - DAVID GLUCK World-recognized tattoo artist tells us Maybe the most interesting style of How David’s background in oil the inside story to his success. tattoos you’ve seen. painting helped him with tattooing. 09 - GREG CLEAVER 18 - BILLY DECOLA 29 - CRYSTAL WALTS Check out the amazing photography We caught up with NY INK apprentice This island girl loves the camera; read from Greg Cleaver. Billy DeCola for a look into the what her tattoos mean to her. spotlight of tattooing. West Coast Ink is a tattoo and culture magazine established in Victoria, BC. Created by owner Ryan Bishop, the magazine has been developed to showcase the incredibly talented tattoo community on the west coast. From tattoo artists, to shops, to models and more, West Coast Ink Magazine has your daily fix to everything tattoo... 2 | WESTCOASTINKMAG.COM ISSUE 3 | 3 ARTISTS DARK HORSE “For me, tattooing is extremely gratifying.” - Shawn Steinberg started off by bringing in my own clientele, and as the from my clients. I love going above and beyond for them and word got out we gradually became busier. You will find my converting the vision in their mind into a work of art for their body. shop to have a very relaxed atmosphere, as well as friendly I try my best to bring their vision to life. It really means a lot to Iand mature customer service. We have a great location and are me knowing that another person is willing to display my art on looking forward to tattooing Langford. Kelly Auclair is the pierc- their body for the rest of their life. For me, tattooing is extremely er at our shop. If you ever need something pierced, he is your gratifying. guy! Kelly is awesome at what he does and he always informs you about the proper techniques regarding aftercare. Expect my Do you have any specific style you enjoy the most? team and I to always be pushing ourselves for a greater challenge I wouldn’t say I specialize in one particular style of tattoos. I’m and taking our art to a new level. You could definitely say we are always pushing myself to be well rounded. It’s great to be known beyond driven! for specializing in a specific style, but personally I enjoy a different challenge each time. It keeps things fresh and exciting. Can you give us a little background about Darkhorse? I first started tattooing in 2006. Two years later, I started my own shop which lead to many exciting new opportunities for myself, including hosting Vancouver Islands very first tattoo convention. The Capital City Tattoo Convention in 2010 and 2011 started with a lot of hard work from myself and my two partners, Erik Van Kobra and Scott Petterson. As fun as it was to host two tattoo conventions, I don’t see myself doing it again anytime soon. What is it that you love most about tattooing? What do I love most about what I do? Easy, I love a challenge Model: Tessa Pimlott Photo4 | WESTCOASTINKMAG.COM by: Julia Loglsci ISSUE 3 | 5 ARTISTS tubes and a power supply. I tattooed a lot of matter to gain a better understanding of the grapefruits and oranges before I finally received tattoo and to begin designing the working piece. an apprenticeship at Iron Mikes Tattoos in Truro, Nova Scotia; it was here that I met Mike Leblanc. Sometimes if my client is open to it I will just free Until then I had never seen work like his anywhere hand a sketch on to the body and create the except for magazines. After a great deal of floor details as I go such as Biomech or Japanese sweeping and tube cleaning, Mike finally agreed influenced art. With more realistic subject matter to teach me the art behind tattooing. I like to have the art well prepared and enhanced with Photoshop. I will never forget my first client! It was some sort of Ying and Yang, angel/devil kind of thing. Achievements and tools from Sponsors My hands were trembling and I was sweating I have had the opportunity to travel all over through the whole thing. I quickly found out Canada and the United States to teach my tattooing was a lot harder than it looked. seminar, Back 2 Reality, based on my approach to color realism. I also have a color realism DVD I later opened my own shop, Silver City Tattoos, out and plan to release a second one very soon. in Elmsdale. I became well rounded to different Within the last two years I have worked hard on styles of tattooing due to client requests. At my art to make an impression on this industry. Born in Kingston, Nova Scotia; moved to Truro, Nova Scotia - Kirt Silver now calls My hands were trembling and I was Elmsdale, Nova Scotia his home. sweating through the whole thing. I efore tattooing I had several different quickly found out tattooing was a lot jobs. I worked as a personal trainer, sport harder than it looked. supplement manager and believe it or not, “ BI was even a hair stylist before becoming a tattoo arist. That is how I met my beautiful wife Amy. I found myself unsatisfied with these jobs and first people sought me out for my larger black I have landed features in publications and great seeking new direction in life. Through reflection and grey Japanese inspired work, which I still magazine, such as this one, all across the world. and prayers I felt the desire to go back to my roots enjoy doing today. I found myself really wanting I feel blessed to have become part of the team at as an artist. Doors were opening in front of me and to expand from there, so I started to focus on Neo Tat Machines where Ray Webb designs their opportunities started to arise to pursure tattooing portraits and color realism. I began studying and amazing linear rotaries. I started using” rotaries as a career. following the tattoo art of Tom Renshaw, Bob about 4 years ago and found they were so much Tyrrell, Guy Aitchison, Joe Capobianco, and Mike smoother for packing color and allowed for more I had an interest in tattooing from a young age. Devries. My current style tends to focus around passes in the skin. This is great when doing a The first tattoo that I recall seeing was back when color realism. I feel that I am always seeking to color portrait with lots of detail. Also I have had I was ten years old, on my uncle’s arm. He had learn new and different styles to keep my art the great honor of teaming up with my ink line a blurry, green cross and some writing. I recall fresh and am humbled by the challenge. I am of choice StarBrite, from the makers at Tommy’s soon after this on family vacation sneaking off really interested in expanding my knowledge of Supplies. I find these inks saturate extremely well to a tattoo shop next to a comic book store and all styles but recently I have been focusing a lot and heal with great vibrancy. I have also had the admiring all the flash art on the walls. I would on animation or cartooning style. Tony Ciavarro opportunity to work with them to formulate my sneak in to shops any chance I could, but would and Jime Litwalk are a huge influence. I want own color set which is named the Kirt Silver series. usually get kicked out for being under age. Tattoos to merge the painterly realism with some bold My needles of choice come from a company that had caught my interest and I soon began drawing outer lines and exaggerated features - sort of a has shown me great support throughout my art on myself and friends often getting us all into neo-realism if you will. I found something I can career, World Wide Tattoo Supply. trouble with our parents. My parents saw early do day in and day out and am just as excited on that I had a natural desire to create art and now as my first day on the job. I do not see I want to thank my wife Amy & son Disiah for encouraged me to do so. They were always, and myself doing anything else. This is where I am all their support and love. My parents who have still are, one hundred percent encouraging about supposed to be! always encouraged my art. Mike LeBlanc for the my artistic abilities and tattooing career. We did opportunity to learn the art of tattoo. My clients not have a lot of money growing up, so my mom Day to day who inspire and support me and to God for all he would save Bristol board from boxes at her work I make it a point to meet with all my clients has seen me through.
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