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All Or Nothing Tattoo Artist: John Lloyd
In 1972 I was born in Florida.
Yeah, I am that old. My family moved to
Dayton, Ohio when I was five. Go Buckeyes! I was active with the Boy Scouts
from age eight to twenty-one. I now
proudly wear my Eagle Scout tattoo on my left arm.
As a young musician, my career
consisted of making bad sounds from a violin for three years; before I finally
gave it up and joined the wrestling team in seventh grade. All embarrassing pictures of me in wrestling
tights should be burned and never spoken of again. When I learned you couldn’t hit and choke
your opponent, I gave up wrestling for martial arts. I eventually earned my second-degree black
belt in Ju-Jitsu and Arnis. I used to be a “Bad Mama Jamma”.
It was around seventh grade that I
also started focusing on my artwork. I
won several awards from various art competitions during junior and high
school. I graduated from Beavercreek
High in 1991 with my portfolio and hopes and dreams of making art my
livelihood. I studied at Ohio University earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
in 1995. It was a critical time for
pushing myself creatively. Some of the
art I created back then is still powerful to me today. That formal art training serves me well as I
push myself with tattooing.
I used my shiny new degree to start
teaching art. I started in Ohio then came to Georgia. I was a teacher for eight years. I won several teaching awards, and was
nominated for “Teacher of the Year” several times. Over those years, I had been getting
tattooed; each piece getting progressively larger and of higher quality. Being an artist, I was fascinated by the
process.
After a lot of research, I decided
that All or Nothing was the best place to learn how to tattoo. In March of 2005 I started my apprenticeship
at AON. It was hard, very hard. Good
apprenticeships are; and I feel that I got the best.
One of my largest achievements was
the day that I was hired as an artist at
All or Nothing. I feel pushed to
make my art better with each piece I do.
This is an exciting place to work.
I will continue to push myself to create incredible, vibrant, living
pieces of art that my clients will cherish for the rest of their lives. Please
keep checking out my work as it grows.
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