Hi my names hutch, I was born in Honolulu and moved to Georgia when my parents divorced in 2000. I’ve been drawing and painting for as long as I can remember. My favorite subject was science because sometime you had to draw.

I used to constantly get in trouble for drawing things on the side of my test,class work, and homework. When I was in the 8th grade I knew I wanted a career in tattooing, in the same instance I loved to take things apart so someone advised me maybe I should be. A electrician cause they make a lot of money. Side note: I used to love to cook back then too. When I graduated high school I immediately began my career as a IBEW apprentice which is a 5 year program.

In my 5th year I was making 19$ a hour working 40-60 hours a week so I was getting paaaiiddd, but one day when I was leaving work i had a car accident not horrible but bad enough for me to realize I could die at any moment. Those next weeks I decided I couldn’t go on being an electrician anymore at first I enjoyed it I think just cause it was something new. But after only 5 years I was over it and didn’t wanna be doing something everyday that I didn’t love. So I quit in my 5th year and decided to go and find a tattoo apprenticeship. I was a waiter, side electrician, Uber driver, and concrete worker for a year when a friends mom finally gave me the wake up call I needed to just go into a shop and start talking to artist and getting my feet wet. And after a few rejections I luckily found a shop called minds eye tattoo that was in need of electrical services which we traded for a shot at a apprenticeship tattooing. While I was there me and this swole Asian guy named turkey started becoming cool and he took me under his wing as his apprentice. After about a year he released from my apprenticeship and decided it was time for him to open a shop he always envisioned (red rose tattoo). If someone were to ask me what i style I enjoy the most I’d tell them American traditional and Japanese traditional when I get the chance. Also I enjoy black and grey especially when the idea isn’t so basic. I enjoy colorful tattoos and black work also and I want to continue learning and tattooing till I can’t tattoo anymore. I’ll prolly be tattoing when I’m walking with a cane still.