Booking FAQs

AVAILABILITY:

  • By appointment only

  • Afternoons and Evenings; times vary depending on length of appointment.

  • Books are typically out 3-9 months, although occasionally I have earlier availability due to a reschedule.

travelers:

Travelers are welcome. Please read my Traveler’s Notice here.

Pricing:

  • Pricing is done by the hour with a minimum, and applies to the full session.

  • Hourly rate:

    • $275/hr

  • Minimum rate per day of service is equal to three hours work. .

  • Minimum $200 non refundable retainer required for booking. View Retainer Info here.

  • Payment is required at the end of each session. Payment by card or Venmo is preferred.

Booking Information

Books typically open every 6–8 months for a limited submission period, usually 24–48 hours. To be notified when booking opens, please join my mailing list.

What I’m Drawn To

I’m most interested in work that feels thoughtful, specific, and deeply connected to the natural world. Botanical studies, wildlife, landscapes, geology, natural history, and ecologically inspired imagery are all recurring themes in my work.

Whenever possible, I encourage clients to include meaningful details such as exact plant and animal species, ecosystems, regions, or personal connections to place. I love creating tattoos that feel both visually beautiful and personally significant.

Types of Work

Custom Work
Most of the work I create is fully custom. Custom work is designed specifically for you and is never repeated without permission.

Pre-Drawn Work
Occasionally, pre-drawn designs will be made available. These are original pieces of artwork I have created in advance for tattooing, sometimes referred to as “flash.”

Please note that I generally do not tattoo artwork created by other artists.

How Booking Works

When books are open, booking requests must be submitted through the booking form available on this website. The form serves as both your appointment request and your initial consultation, so please take the time to fill it out thoughtfully and thoroughly.

Submission Tips

Be specific.
“A bird and flowers” is too vague.
“A chickadee with dogwood blossoms” is much more helpful.

Keep designs focused.
Too many unrelated elements can create a cluttered or unfocused composition.

In general, I recommend:

  • 1–2 primary subjects

  • Up to 5 supporting elements

Supporting elements may be highly specific (“wild roses,” “full moon,” “maidenhair fern”) or more general (“Pacific Northwest forest plants,” “Sonoran desert flora”).

You are also welcome to include optional filler elements for me to incorporate if they suit the composition.

For floral arrangement pieces, you do not need to separate primary and secondary elements unless there is a particular flower you would like emphasized.

Smaller tattoos generally require a simpler approach.

What Happens If Your Request Is Accepted

If your request is selected, you will receive a text notification followed by an email with:

  • a link to my booking calendar

  • instructions for submitting reference material

  • additional booking information

Reference images may include tattoos, artwork, photographs, textures, colors, placement ideas, or anything else relevant to the project. Please keep references focused and specific to the design being discussed.

A photo of the area to be tattooed is also required. Multiple angles/wrap are particularly useful as well as measurements of the space.

Important: Significant changes to the original concept are not permitted once a project has been booked.

What Happens If Your Request Is Not Accepted

Thank you sincerely for your interest in my work.

Due to limited availability, I’m unfortunately unable to accept every request submitted. In other cases, a proposal may simply fall outside the type of work I typically create.

I rarely accept projects centered around portraits, heavily text-based work, or styles outside my usual visual approach. My work focuses primarily on illustrative blackwork inspired by the natural world, including plants, flowers, wildlife, insects, landscapes, geology, bones, minerals, and other organic forms.

Consultations

Consultations are generally handled through email after a project has been accepted and scheduled. I’ve found this approach allows both of us to gather references, ideas, and questions efficiently within a single conversation thread.

In-person consultations are only offered occasionally for large or especially complex projects.