3-day event buzzes with tunes, needles
23.05.12
Jaime Gutierrez, 33, lost his mother in November, and this weekend he paid tribute to her.
Gutierrez spent about nine hours on the bench Friday as a tattoo artist completed a portrait of his mom on his upper arm.
“She had a brain tumor, and she was highly diabetic,” he said. “She was in the hospital for 1½ months, and it just wore her body out.”
Gutierrez and several thousand other tattoo aficionados attended the Ink Life Tattoo and Music Festival on Saturday in the Amarillo Civic Center North Exhibit Hall. The exposition continues from noon to 9 p.m. Sunday.
Tour Operations Manager Ragen St. Peter said the event drew in nearly 5,000 people last year, and he expected more for this year’s three-day tour. Ink Life Tour boasted about 150 tattoo artists and more than a dozen bands, including Grind, an Alice In Chains tribute band.
St. Peter said the tour draws a broad audience, but the strongest demographic of people getting tattoos are women between the ages of 18 and 45.
Source: Amarillo.com