Artists' tattoos color Austin
22.05.12
The sound of ceaseless buzzing is in the air as Rachel Kolar begins to work on a piece of art. Her paintbrush is a needle, her medium is ink and her canvas is the human body.
Kolar has been working at True Blue Tattoo for 10 years. In high school, she knew she wanted to be a tattoo artist. After attending art school in Philadelphia, she moved to Austin and that dream became a reality. Kolar learned the craft by watching others and practicing on her friends.
“When I first moved to Austin, I did a lot of terrible tattoos on people I'm still friends with,” Kolar said.
But Kolar has certainly improved since those days. Nine years after getting her first tattoo done, UT alumna Tamara Guillory decided she was ready to go ahead and get a second tattoo. She was terrified. The combination of pain and nerves while getting her first tattoo, a small star on her wrist, had made her faint.
So Guillory asked her friends for tattoo artist suggestions. Rachel Kolar's name kept popping up.
Source: UT The Daily Texan