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| - Driving home from a visit with my ailing grandmother (cliche, but true) I had the last words she shared with me stuck in my mind.
I did a search for local artists that could do good script tattoos and found Jeff Mack at Tatlantis. Not because of his script work, but some of his birds were amazing! I instantly pictured the plethora of hummingbirds around my grandmother's home and knew what had to be done.
I emailed Jeff, received a personable reply back pretty quick and stopped in on Tuesday the 20th. In person, Jeff was just as personable, seemed excited by the concept and the freedom I gave him to come up with a good design. I was shocked by how affordable the quote was, left my deposit and anxiously awaited the email or text from him with a sketch.
A couple days later, I received an AMAZING sketch of a hummingbird and time seemed to stop while I waited for Saturday to roll around.
Throughout the tattoo, Jeff was friendly, and focused on the task at hand, or forearm, if you will. We had a good bit of banter going during the two and a half hour session, including some of the most random quotes yelled out from other artists as they were researching on their computers.
The end result is an absolutely phenomenal tattoo that has blown everybody away that has seen it. My wife sat there, watching me get inked, cursing me for being in the chair and not her.
Needless to say, the wife filled out a form for a sketch from Jeff and we will be repeat customers for a long, long time.
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