Genres
Americana
Dark Horror
Fine Line
New School
Realism

Story
As an Ordained Minister, Larry is working to establish a Universal Church where people of color are all treated as family. Please come join the brother and sisterhood of the colorful elite. Come, all those who dare to bare flesh to needle and ink in an act of painful self expression. A badge to show the world that yes, I am not a number, I am my own person and by my choosing to mark my body, I set myself apart from all others. An ancient art with modern creativity and means, a tribal bonding with inner self and the world around us.

Shop (they work at)
Tattoo City - Illinois

Location
Lockport, Illinois

How started
Larry has owned and operated Tattoo City since 1994 and has been tattooing since 1990. An artist since he could pick up a crayon and scribble on the walls, he has pushed himself to create some exciting artistic images. An honors graduate from the School of Airbrush Arts in 1991, Larry has applied much of his airbrush knowledge to tattooing. In an effort to expand his tattooing skills he has attended many seminars hosted by the biggest names in the tattoo world and has steadily improved on his knowledge and tattooing ability. He attended art school at JJC in Joliet Illinois where he made the Dean's List with a 4.0 grade point average. Larry has been a member of the Alliance Of Professional Tattooists "A.P.T." since 1993.

Influences
My artistic influences consist of first and foremost, the Grandmaster of Sci-fi Fantasy art, Frank Frazetta. Without discovering his paintings when I was a child on the cover of books such as Conan the Barbarian I may not have been inspired enough to pursue art the way I did. My tattoo influences include the usual suspects like Guy Aitchison, Philip Leu, Cap Szumski and Paul Jefferies to more recent heavyweights as Joe Capobianco, Nick Baxter, Nikko Hurtado, Jeff Gogue, Kory Flatmo, Steve Moore and Bob Tyrrell. It is just so amazing how the world of tattooing has exploded artistically in the last ten years, it is truly a tattoo renaissance and I feel extremely fortunate to be a part of it.