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You come from a painting background don’t you. You do nice work, and it looks like you still paint a lot. Yea, and I do still paint a lot… And your pencil work is amazing Thank you And you’ve been tattoo- ing about 5 years? July makes 5 years and that’s including my appren- ticeship, so I’ve been tat- tooing full time for 2 years now. And already on Ink Mas- ter… (laughs) Right! Do you think you went on too soon? No, I would never turn down that opportunity. You can’t really prepare yourself to be on Ink Master. There’s nothing you can do that can prepare you for that shit. I would never turn down an opportunity like that. I don’t think I went on too soon. I have a lot to learn and the show did teach me a lot. Did you do the thing at night where everyone sits around teaching each other their tricks like a lot of seasons have done? 51