Durb Morrison from Hell City

I did an interview with Durb Morrison, from Hell City. You can contact him by Durb Morrison Hell City Tattoo P.O. Box 239 Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068. Durbster.com or Hellcity.com. He tattoos four days a week right now and work on the Hell City Tattoo Fest a few days, leaving him with a little time for painting and designing art.
He has always had a rebellious nature to him, always trying to do something against the mold of society, so naturally he fell into the world of alternative arts. He began his interest in tattoos very young. He was always amazed with how tattoos look on the body. He realized that he wanted to actually tattoo around the age of 14, but never picked up a machine until he was 17, still in high school. After graduating high school, he went to work in a studio within months. He has never slowed down or looked back. (AWESOME!)
He said he is primarily a self-taught tattoo artist, cutting his teeth tattooing close friends and other punk and hard core kids around the scene. They were open to whatever he wanted to do, so that really helped him get over the fear of tattooing people and contributed to being able to excel quickly.
He said that he really doesn’t have a definitive style or specialty. He enjoys doing painterly traditional tattoos with bright colors and strong foundations. He has also done a lot of Japanese style work, which contributes to his application on the skin and overall look of his tattooing. He gets a lot of different requests for different styles all of which he tries to stay fluent with.
Traditional tattoos have had the biggest influence on his work. He always tend to get more complex though, adding more color and filling the skin up with solid color. His clients typically are looking for that exact thing bright, traditional style tattoos that can be seen from across the room that will stay brighter forever.
Lately, he has been into learning about pain control with his clients. He has been experimenting more with pre and during numbing agents that do not effect the tattoo or healing, therefore allowing him to get more done on them.
He is always trying something new, it keeps things exciting and fresh. The whole rotary machine had his interest for a second, but he is too set in his ways with coil machines. He is however working on a new product called ”True Tube” that will be released soon, stay tuned to durbster.com for details as they are released.
He WON’T do: any racist or drug-related, names unless its family bloodline, and portraits mainly because that is not his focus. He tries to direct people to the best artist for anything he doesn’t so though, that is important too, making sure everyone gets the best tattoo they can.
He has tattoos from: Guy Aitchison, Joe Capobianco, Timothy Hoyer, James Kern, Brian Everett, Gunnar, Dave Ski and many more artists.
The thing about being a tattoo artist is the freedom to create his own world and daily grind. He loves creative people he meets along the way and the energy those around him for being a part of this whole tattoo thing, it’s the best.
His perfect ”dream” client would have to be someone who gives direction with their design, but also allows gives you the freedom to do your own special touch to their tattoo. He works only by appointment, working on clients that have waited patiently to get tattooed by him, those are his favorites.
He enjoys doing mediums, trying not to get corned into one thing. When he is not tattooing he likes to paint, he also has done a good amount of sculpture and currently he enjoys digital design, which he applies to the Hell City Tattoo Fest. He never went to Art College, but always hung over shoulders and tried to absorb what he could from reading and applying things he has learned along the way.
When he has free time he does things like he doesn’t know because with the Hell City Tattoo Festival being only a couple of weeks away. He likes to travel and tries to workout here and there, he has skateboarded since he was 13 and still likes to skateboard (me too!), and play video games are a fun outlet after a long day too!!!! Check back for more from Durb, I will be interviewing him about Hell City, in Arizona in2 weeks.

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