247 Ink Magazine (August/September) 2017 Issue#16 | Page 281

How did you pick the people in your shop? Jessica specializes in dotwork, blackwork traditional. She was my apprentice, she was the cleaning girl and i saw her potential, she’s a really good person, brings a good energy, I always like having her around. Jimmy I met year ago and he wanted to apprentice under me but I didn’t have the time, I was too busy. Later I saw his work online and called him up to see what he was up and if he wanted to hang with us and it clicked just like that. Frank was another out of the blue and I said to come by and let’s talk and we clicked. The energy was just there. How long has your shop been around? 3 years now this month. Do you do a lot of conventions? I try to do at least one a month. We’ve done 3 or 4 so far this year. We have Puerto Rico, Bahamas, we did Colorado last month, I’m going to Co- lumbia next month, maybe Wildwood. 279