We used a really cheap machine I got off amazon. You can check out her work here:īefore I worked in the shop, I tattooed a Gus few times at your house while you were at Ken’s (sorry lol). She also paints beautiful still lifes, landscapes, and other images. Dana drafted and then executed an amazing and colorful mural that decorated our back yard for about a year, until the landlord made me paint over it.ĭana Vargas works as a tattoo artist in Portland, Oregon now. I suggested fruits and vegetables, and specifically mushrooms. They had an idea to paint a mural, then the ideas began to flow. One day Dana and Emma were using some sidewalk chalk to draw a seascape on the garage step. Gus also encouraged Dana’s art in other ways. For that reason, I can show you Gus’s tattoos in detail here. For some reason, Gus had Emma photograph nearly every tattoo he had-up until he left to begin performing with Schemaposse in February, 2016. He enjoyed having little images filled in here and there, in between the bigger images. Gus and Dana had fun working on tattoo ideas together. Then Gus went back for more of the image to be filled in. First, Dana tattooed the web and outlines. One of Dana and Gus’s more elaborate collaborations was the multi-stage spiderweb with spider, coffin and eight ball. Right above that, she also tattooed the little sad face with the flame hair. Dana also tattooed the card symbols (ace, diamond, heart, club) on Gus’s knuckles and the “Forever” on his right inner wrist leading down to his thumb. Dana also gave Gus his centipede tattoo, which came with some beautiful beetles, and ladybugs.
SMALL LIL PEEP TATTOO IDEAS SERIES
Over the next few months, Dana would give Gus a series of tattoos-the coffin, the “revenge” knife, “Fuck the Opps,” the Grim Reaper on his hand-with flames coming out of it. He did not want it to look “professional.” That tattoo is just about the most well-known tattoo Gus had. She was nervous about that because Gus pretty much told her how he wanted it-and he wanted it drawn like a little kid would have drawn it. One of the first tattoos Dana gave Gus was his love tattoo-the one on his tummy. She needed practice getting started, so Gus began to get Dana’s tattoos. At some point in the fall of 2015, Dana began to work in a tattoo shop. She had taken some art classes at an art school. She hung out in Gus’s room late at night, with all the other guys, listening to music and just having a good time. Dana grew up in Long Beach and spent many evenings at our home on Walnut Street. One of Emma’s best friends is Dana Vargas. He said that was his commitment to being an artist-to “not having a real job,” he said. It was a big deal when Gus got his little broken heart tattoo-the one on his face. He also looked at other people who had tattoos in intriguing places. He had ideas for bugs, decks of cards, theatrical symbols and lots of scary images. He spent time researching designs that came to mind-and saved many of them as screenshots on his phone. Gus got his first several tattoos done at that shop. After ten minutes, I knew he was good and drove home to wait for him to call me to come and get him. He had me drive him there and wait nearby for a few minutes to make sure they would not kick him out.
At first, he went to a tattoo shop in Island Park. I’m not even sure that I knew you had to be eighteen to get one, legally.Īfter Gus got that tattoo, he was able to actually go to the tattoo shop with Oskar’s friend’s brother’s fake ID and get more.
I knew he was young-although he already had pierced ears and a pierced nostril-to get a tattoo. After that, my main concern was that he not get an infection. He was right when he said to me, “You can’t go wrong with your mom.” He and his friend had cleverly tattooed my birthdate, and so my anger was softened.
I sighed and walked away knowing something was up.Ī while later, he emerged with a shiny, slicked-up blue tattoo showing my birthdate, with some birds flying above it.
It’s okay.” I tried a couple more times to get him to open the door, but he would not. I said, “Gus! Open the door!” And he said, “No, Mama! Shush! Go away. I turned the knob to the door, but it was locked. I went to look for them outside when I heard voices coming from inside the garage, and a buzzing sound. He had a couple of friends over, and suddenly they seemed to have disappeared. I only found out about what was happening in the garage when I went looking for him on the deck. We had moved into our new apartment a couple of months before, and then visited family in Oklahoma. Gus got his first tattoo done in our garage when he was fifteen.
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