In his youth, Mic Ortiz was heavily inspired by the art of video games and animated series like Sonic the Hedgehog, Dragonball, and Megaman. At the age of 15, he moved from Puerto Rico to the United States in the hope of newer and better opportunities, where he developed a passion for the macabre aesthetics of dark fantasy, anime, and metal.
In 2018, Mic graduated with an Associate of Arts degree in Illustration from Delaware College of Arts and began an apprenticeship at a local tattoo shop a year later. Striving to better his craft, Mic was on the lookout for dedicated artists and like-minded individuals whom he found at Relic Tattoo Studio. With a strong influence from his love of Japanese art, he now specializes in black work & illustrative neo-traditional tattooing.
Thank you For your interest in Mic’s artwork. We will get back to as soon as possible!
If your concept is chosen, you will receive an approval email with instructions on how to place your deposit. To schedule with Norn they requires a deposit up front. All deposits are non-refundable {but transferable} and will come off the cost of your tattoo at your final session.
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Joe is a former student of Temple University’s Tyler school of art. He has spent his whole life working within a multitude of art mediums, including 15 years of private art education in illustration, painting, and multimedia sculpting.
Joe got his career started in tattooing under the mentorship of Relic Tattoo shop owner Rich Wren, and quickly became a full-time artist at the shop.
Joe specializes in neotraditional and illustrative tattooing, but can also execute a wide variety of other tattoo styles. He is currently booking for flash, custom work, and accepts walk-in tattoos.
Thank you For your interest in Joe’s artwork. We will get back to as soon as possible!
If your concept is chosen, you will receive an approval email with instructions on how to place your deposit. To schedule with Rich he requires a deposit up front. All deposits are non-refundable {but transferable} and will come off the cost of your tattoo at your final session.
Since childhood I was always interested in art/illustration. I would draw Yoshi, Mario and Street Fighter characters for the entertainment of my friends.
As time went on I became deeply interested in graffiti and spent countless hours in freight yards painting freights trains.
I went to community college and while taking all the art classes available I discovered Glassblowing.
Quickly became obsessed with glass and applied to and successfully got in Tyler School of Art (Temple University) where I received a Bachelors in Glassblowing. While at Tyler taking electives I became skilled in moldmaking, welding, and work with nearly all materials. Art school being super expensive, I figured I’d play into my Illustrative inclinations. I taught myself how to tattoo out of my house ( I know, I know it’s very bad, but 18 years ago there weren’t the same resources people have nowadays and very few shops around.)
After about a year or so of house tattooing I brought my tattoo portfolio to local shops and eventually got accepted to one that gave me little guidance.
I got tattooed by everyone I admired to learn as much as I could from watching them work.
After approx 9 years working for other people I finally opened Relic Tattoo studio and have been operational for 10 years.
I started to develop my own personal style and take the things I find deeply fascinating and attempt to make them interesting to others through my illustrations. The occult, the spooky, witches, magic, aliens and monsters.
Thank you for your interest in Rich Wren’s artwork
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Rich is looking to tattoo pieces that are unique, one of a kind artworks that inspire both him and the client. For this purpose, it is important that Rich retains a level of artistic freedom in order to achieve something beautiful that the client and artist can walk away happy with.
He is interested in pieces that include subject matter such as: vampire dagger faces, UFOs, aliens, elaborate flowers, dark gothic mythos, glass vials filled with various liquids or eyes, animals (snakes, horses, winged creatures), spooky themed tattoos, unique skulls, witch hands