![]() Maintaining that balance between being the best father I could be along with being busy with a job and starting a new career was not easy, but that road made me push hard and hustle to where I saw myself and where I could be. I was learning the in’s and out’s of tattooing which landed me at the shop for at least 35-40 hours a week at the same time I was also working in a union job for the Cambridge Public Schools which was a 40 hours a week job. At the time of starting my tattoo career as an apprentice, it was just shy of my son Max’s first birthday. ![]() The struggle was basically maintaining balance in my life. Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way? From there I landed an apprenticeship under him and began my tattoo career on the road to becoming the professional tattoo artist I am today. I bought my first two tattoo machines from him and instantly got to work tattooing friends in my college dorm room. While in college, I was getting tattooed at a local shop in Cambridge, a bunch and became friends with my tattoo artist, Mike Christie at Skin Art Studio. I went on to attend Curry College where I majored in graphic design with a minor in advanced studio art. I designed and drew out designs for friends and family wanting tattoos I always liked bringing their ideas to life and seeing their enjoyment when they got them done. I continued building my own style through high school at Malden Catholic where most of my work surrounded graffiti and tattoo oriented drawings and paintings. I designed my first tattoo for a teacher of mine by eighth grade, and this is where the seed was really planted for my interest in tattoos as a whole. ![]() I started out drawing and driven by art in middle school where a mentor of mine introduced me to street art and graffiti artwork. Mike, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today. Today we’d like to introduce you to Mike Coleman.
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