247 Ink Magazine (December/January) 2016 Issue#12 | Page 188

spots and more relaxing and research to grow up as an artist. What do you do when you’re not tattooing or painting? I just practice fight sports in the gym like Thai boxing. Do you box just to workout? No, just when I was younger. I’m too old. I’m starting to feel my bad back (laugh). Are you planning on spending more time in the United States? Yeah, with Darren and the guys from Manchester. We want to do conventions in LA and maybe Philadelphia and New York again. Some artists put together DVDs of tutorials. Any plans for anything like that? I just made a couple of private workshops for some artists. I’m also going to do a large public workshop in the south of Italy in January or February. Do you make prints to sell? No. This stuff is good for some tattoo artists but I just do oil and classical paintings. Do you think most artists in Europe and Italy do more classical work? In Europe does more traditional style. There are a lot of traditional style art186