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137omes with it&mdash;the pain, the endurance, and the transformation. An artist must possess compassion, and real empathy can only be earned by sitting in the chair themselves, feeling the needle break skin, learning how the body reacts under pressure. By tattooing their own body, the artist understands how far a session can be pushed, when to pause, when to offer water, sugar, or rest, and how to minimize trauma while maximizing comfort. Certain placements&mdash;like the head or throat&mdash;demand even deeper understanding; they require firsthand knowledge of the intensity, vulnerability, and mental focus needed to move beyond instinctive resistance to pain. For many artists, being tattooed is a form of apprenticeship to the body itself, a way of honoring the ritual and ensuring that every mark made on another person is guided by experience, empathy, and respect.<br /><br /></span></div></div>
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144<span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">Full Name:&nbsp; Brandon&nbsp;Garic Notch&nbsp;</span></li></ul><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">Nickname: Saint&nbsp;</span></li></ul><span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">Where are you originally from? Saint Paul Minnesota&nbsp;</span></li></ul><span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">Where do you live and work now? I currently live in San Bernardino,&nbsp;CA.&nbsp;where I built a private studio for myself and work by Appointment&nbsp;only.&nbsp;San Bernardino, is just an hour drive east from the crowded streets of&nbsp;downtown Los Angeles. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></li></ul>
144<span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">Name of your studio: Sacred Saint Studio&nbsp;</span></li></ul><span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">How long have you tattooing? I &nbsp;have been pushing these pins since&nbsp;1995, but professionally since 1997. </span><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; color:#000000;font-weight:bold; "><a href="../../In_The_Skin/" target="_blank" title="In The Skin">PINS TO THE SKIN.</a></span><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"> I still learn&nbsp;something new every day.</span></li></ul><span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">How did you get into tattooing? As a child I was a skater kid and snowboarder so I was surrounded by people covered in tattoos. Got my first tattoo when I turned 15 and never looked back, but ultimately I was in juvenile hall when I first really&nbsp;got interested into tattooing. I was a young kid lost in the world&nbsp;trying&nbsp;to find my place. You know getting into trouble, ha. I bought&nbsp;some&nbsp;equipment, machines, and started scratching on my friends&nbsp;then got&nbsp;new friends. Yes we all start out as scratcher&rsquo;s it takes a&nbsp;lot of bad&nbsp;tattoos to get good in this game. So you tattoo for free doing anything,&nbsp;and&nbsp;everything that comes your way to lean, and progress as a tattooist.&nbsp;I lied&nbsp;about my age and went around to some shops showing off my&nbsp;work and, I was able to land an apprenticeship, I never looked back.&nbsp;All&nbsp;I know is after that, all&nbsp;I did was eat, sleep, and breathe anything that&nbsp;had to do with tattooing. I talk about it in my books. (Death is only the&nbsp;Beginning)</span></li></ul>
144<span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">When did you get into painting? I've been into art, painting and drawing&nbsp;my whole life. My parents were artist's.</span></li></ul><span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">Was your family and friends supportive in your decision to become an&nbsp;artist? Yes, everyone was very supportive.</span></li></ul><span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">Do you like to challenging yourself every time you tattoo? Yes, I love&nbsp;creating bigger and better tattoos.</span></li></ul><span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">What do you like about tattooing? I love the conversations, the stories,&nbsp;the interaction with my clients never gets old, and the ability to create&nbsp;lasting art, Impressions in the skin and on the mind.&nbsp;The POWER of&nbsp;ART holds true. Creating hope, faith, motivation, change and&nbsp;inspiration in ones life.&nbsp;Artwork is changing lives and motivating the&nbsp;world around us.</span></li></ul><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">Do you ever do charity work? Work cheap for the right cause / donate&nbsp;paintings, Etc.?" &nbsp;Ha, ha... I am an artist, but this does not mean I will&nbsp;work for FREE, I have bills just like you.</span></li></ul>
144<span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">Do you have a favorite tattoo? I don't have a favorite&nbsp;tattoo, but I love&nbsp;things that challenge me, and people that give me large parts of their&nbsp;body to tattoo. I have yet to do my best tattoo only my best so far.</span></li></ul><span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">Who or what is your biggest influence in your tattoo work and why?&nbsp;My clients aren't the biggest influences in my work they give me the&nbsp;skin and inspiration to create. Something&rsquo;s you just can't do with paint&nbsp;on canvas. They really are the biggest influence in my work.</span></li></ul><span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">If I had to name my greatest motivation in life thus far, what would it&nbsp;be? &nbsp;DEATH (Being happy with what I have done in life, and having&nbsp;fun.)</span></li></ul><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">What was the most&nbsp;difficult thing to learn in&nbsp;tattooing for you and&nbsp;why? Most difficult&nbsp;thing for me to learn in&nbsp;tattooing would have to&nbsp;be learning how to&nbsp;transfer one&rsquo;s idea from&nbsp;their mind to paper, to&nbsp;create a permanent piece&nbsp;of artwork in one&rsquo;s skin.&nbsp;Most of the time a client&nbsp;will be thinking about&nbsp;red, but he&rsquo;ll say blue,&nbsp;so you have to predict&nbsp;that. Ultimately keep in&nbsp;mind the flow of the art&nbsp;on the body. You can have a badass top-notch tattoo, but if it has no&nbsp;flow, or does not fit the body, ultimately it will look like shit.</span></li></ul>
144<span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">How do you usually advertise or market yourself? Advertising is one&nbsp;thing I don&rsquo;t believe in. I believe that good work speaks for itself, all&nbsp;my clients are referral-based. If your work speaks for itself, don&rsquo;t&nbsp;interrupt it.&nbsp;</span></li></ul><span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">What brand of pigments / inks do you recommend or use and why? I can&rsquo;t&nbsp;recommend any brands of the inks, because I use a lot of different inks&nbsp;there&rsquo;s no one brand that&rsquo;s better than the other. It all depends upon&nbsp;what you like. Some brand&rsquo;s may have one or two good pigments but the&nbsp;rest in their arsenal are difficult or hard to work into the skin. It took me many years to&nbsp;find the pigments I like, but if you&rsquo;re talking about ink. When I say ink, I&nbsp;mean black because that is the only ink we use, all the colors are&nbsp;pigments. I still like talons white label as a go to.&nbsp;</span></li></ul>
144<span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">What is the best brand of tattoo machines that you recommend and&nbsp;why? I can&rsquo;t recommend a brand of tattoo machines. I can only tell you&nbsp;there are two types, daily drivers and hotrods. On a long day you want&nbsp;something that feels good in your hand doesn&rsquo;t weight too much and&nbsp;will not overheat. So ultimately you would need to find a machine that&nbsp;still feels good in your own hand after hours of tattooing.&nbsp;</span></li></ul><span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">What do you believe is the most important tattooing skill one should&nbsp;learn how to master, and why? People skills, the ability to be able to converse with just about anybody, and to truly understand there is still much to learn even after years of honing your skills. It&rsquo;s never as easy&nbsp;as it looks to lay down a good clean tattoo.The ability to create beautiful&nbsp;imagery, that is a particular ability honed over many years of hard work.&nbsp;</span></li></ul>
144<span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">What is your best advice or tips to someone new to the art of tattooing?&nbsp;The best advice I could give to someone new to the art of tattooing&nbsp;would be, look at it like buying a car. Shop for quality and style not&nbsp;price! A tattoo is the only thing you can buy that no-one can take from&nbsp;you. Don&rsquo;t get cheap on the only thing that will outlive you. Cold, yes I&nbsp;know, but I&rsquo;m really tired of fixing and covering up shady tattoos. If&nbsp;you do it right the first time it will be cheaper in the long run, Also if&nbsp;you need to get the tattoo right away you probably should not get it at&nbsp;all. Be patient and put some thought into it, and do it right.&nbsp;</span></li></ul><span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">What is the best way to practice for those just starting out? Practice on&nbsp;your friends and then get new friends, just kidding. You need to learn&nbsp;on yourself to get the feel of it. The hit, controlling the depth, speed, and movement of the&nbsp;machine pushing that puddle of ink / pigment. You need to get use to the minimal visibility you have of the&nbsp;needle because of puddling ink, and you have to love it.</span></li></ul><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">&nbsp;</span>
144<span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">What is the best way for one to land an apprenticeship? The best way&nbsp;for one to land an apprenticeship would be to get tattooed, find a good&nbsp;shop and get tattooed by an artist you like, that&rsquo;s the start. Become a&nbsp;hang around, help out and show your resolution, eventually they&nbsp;will ask you. Make sure they see your determination and heart,&nbsp;everything else can be taught.</span></li></ul><span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><ul class=""><li><span style="font:24px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000;">What do you call the art of tattooing? The Art Of&nbsp;Tattooing: The art of tattooing is in the ability to&nbsp;learn how to transfer one's idea from their mind to&nbsp;paper. Then to create a permanent piece of artwork&nbsp;in one's skin. Most of the time a client will be&nbsp;thinking about red but he'll say blue, so you have&nbsp;to predict that. Keep&nbsp;in mind the flow of the art&nbsp;on&nbsp;the body. You can&nbsp;have a badass top-notch&nbsp;tattoo&nbsp;but if it has no flow or does not fit the&nbsp;body, ultimately it&nbsp;will not&nbsp;look good.</span></li></ul>
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