Painted Monkey Tattoo

A San Francisco treasure! Tattooist Shadow Morton, owner and tattoo artist of Painted Monkey has done 4 of my tattoo's now. He is the only one I trust  in this city. Incredibly talented and very reasonable prices. Friendly and cordial as well as very knowledgeable in all tattoo styles. I cannot praise him highly enough!

Shadow is how all tattoo artists should be. He is a great artist and he is very easy to work with. He has done two tattoos now for my wife which have both turned out amazing and she's getting her third from him soon. I went with her for the last one and his demeanor and attention to detail is tops. I can't wait to get my first from him. Keep up the great work.

I e-mailed Shadow a picture of some hyenas and a pendant I had with this cave-painting-esque neo-paganish hyena glyph on it and pretty much said "Hey man, do...um. Something."

This piece is very important to me, as it represents [INSERT A BUNCH OF PERSONAL SPIRATUALISMO ABOUT MY SOBRIETY, DEMONS, CONTROL, ACCEPTING ONE'S MONSTERS AND TAKING BACK POWER] and I wanted to leave much of the design to someone cool. Shadow hit it in one go, was so wonderful about getting ,e in, talked me through some last-minute psychoses I had about adding color and shit, and soon afterward I had a hyena loping up my forearm.

He gives good ink, knows his shit, and provided me with an excellent game plan for another small piece I need touched-up.

I felt totally welcome, at ease and well-provided for in his place, and can only saw awesome things about this awesome artist!

Plus the motherfucker looks GOOD for his age, and white people usually just don't age that well. You go, Shadow!