About Us

Hi, I’m Peter Alex. It’s not my full name , but this is what I want to be called as !

If you’d asked me ten years ago where I’d be today, I would’ve said: still mixing pigments, still bent over someone’s shoulder blade , still designing tattoos , still working at that little shop in Ojai. Tattooing wasn’t just a job for me—it was the thing that made sense when nothing else did.

I started as an Assistant Tattoo Designer at a small studio tucked away in Ojai, Ventura County. It wasn’t fancy. No neon signs, no waiting list of celebrities. Just a handful of artists (two , to be precise), almost steady stream of locals and travelers passing through, and walls covered in flash sheets that told stories of every person who’d ever walked through that door. I learned everything there—not just how to design, but how to listen. Every tattoo starts with a story, and my job was to help people figure out how to wear that story on their skin.

Then 2020 happened.

Like so many small businesses, the shop couldn’t survive the shutdowns. One day we were open, planning out appointments , and the next, we were locking the doors for what we thought would be a few weeks. Those weeks turned into months, and eventually, the shop closed for good. I won’t pretend it didn’t hurt. That place was more than four walls—it was where I found my voice as an artist.

After that, life took an unexpected turn. I found myself working the land instead of working ink—becoming a farmer here in Ventura County. There’s something humbling about trading a tattoo machine for a shovel, about going from designing permanent art to nurturing things that grow and change with the seasons. I won’t lie, it was a hard adjustment. But farming taught me patience, and in a strange way, it brought me back to why I loved tattooing in the first place: the process of creating something meaningful, something that lasts.

But here’s the thing—you can take the artist out of the shop, but you can’t take the art out of the artist. Even with dirt under my fingernails most days, I never stopped sketching. Late nights, I’d find myself doodling designs again—old habits, old loves. I kept following tattoo artists online, studying new styles, getting excited about techniques I’d never tried. The passion never left. It just went quiet for a while.

Then I met my intern.

She reached out to me a while back, just a young person with a genuine, almost contagious enthusiasm for tattoo art. She’d grown up sketching designs in notebooks, dreaming about becoming a tattoo artist herself one day. We got to talking about ink, about styles, about everything from traditional Americana to fine-line minimalism. And somewhere in those conversations, an idea started forming.

What if we created a space—not a shop, but a blog—where we could share everything we love about tattoo design? A place for people who are drawn to this art form, whether they’re getting their first tattoo, their tenth, or just love looking at incredible designs and learning the stories behind them.

That’s how this blog was born.

It’s run by two people: me, a former tattoo shop assistant turned farmer who never stopped loving the craft, and my intern, someone just starting her journey but already bursting with ideas and curiosity. Together, we explore designs, styles, symbolism, artists, and everything in between. We’re not claiming to know it all—but what we do have is genuine love for this art form, and a desire to share that with anyone who feels the same way.

This blog is for anyone who’s ever stared at a tattoo and felt something. For anyone planning their next piece, or their first. For anyone who, like me, found something in tattoo art that stuck with them long after the ink dried—or even after the shop closed.

Thanks for stopping by. Grab a cup of coffee, scroll through some designs, and let’s talk ink. Just explore our space “Body Tattoo Art“

— Peter Alex