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Posted on: Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Local tattoo artist heads for 'Tattoo Highway'

Advertiser Staff

Amy Wagner of Honolulu’s Tattoolicious is joining the team of tattoo artists in A&E’s “Tattoo Highway.” She’ll appear in tomorrow's episode at 7 p.m.

Amy has worked for Tattoolicious for the past three years and her art can also be seen at art venues, clothing stores and, of course, on bodies.
“Tattoo Highway” is a show that follows artist Thomas Pendelton as he travels the country in a mobile tattoo parlor of his own design.
According to the show’s Web site, “Whether he’s tattooing a Crown Dancer for an Apache Elder in New Mexico or a bat-winged heart on a mortician's chest in Sacramento, Thomas is on the road searching for the people and the stories that never made it to a tattoo shop.”
Casting agents are deployed across the nation to find new artists.
“There was a casting so I sent them a video,” Wagner said. “Then there were questions, it was just like a job interview.”
Wagner has worked for Tattoolicious for the past three years, and her art can also be seen at art venues, clothing stores and of course bodies. God and watercolors is a couple of major influences in her work.
“I do more of a ‘neo-traditional’ style,” she said. “It has regular elements like maybe roses and skulls, but with brighter colors and realistic shadings.”