American Icon Tattoo - The Sailor Jerry Collins

Norman Keith Collins earned his nickname of Jerry as a child, the name of his father's ass stubborn animal. He was very fond of America more than anything else. He hated all the movements that opposed America.

I used to think that the Japanese were bad unforgivable for its attack on Pearl Harbor. However, the tattoo convention in Hawaii in 1972, Collins helped the famous Japanese tattoo master Horihide to get to the USS Arizona Memorial in your cart. It was because of his hatred, he did not realize the quality of the high quality of Japanese tattoo tattoo. But surprisingly, despite his dislike for the Japanese, became Horihide good friend for many years. Being in close association, Collin was influenced by the skill of Japan and Asia.

Collins has his own style of design of different types of tattoos. He was the first tattoo artist to use the art of tattooing has learned Japanese with a dark clouds and the waves that are mixed with the colorful designs of tattoos in the West. After the tattoo has become more attractive. Previously, mainly black was the color of the tattoo. The use of bright colors and designs created and revolutionary way to create the tattoo as an art. Don Ed Hardy, said, "I think the real breakthrough came the tattoo in the sixties and seventies, first with Sailor Jerry Tattoo Cézanne was the modern" ..

Collins spent most of his life in Hawaii. Here the modern tattoo artists Don Ed Hardy and Lyle Tuttle was difficult competing Collins. But their faith was very different. To make their popular tattoo Don Ed Hardy and Lyle Tuttle, various public relations firms. But Collins had always rejected their attempt. According to Collins, these companies attention grabbing advertising only enforce laws and regulations regarding tattoos be activated strict. He believed that the only action that can give publicity to the art of tattooing has been the high quality of tattoo designs. Collins used to treat Lyle Tuttle as "turtle" in his letters. The reluctance of its competitors made necessary to work on the variety and quality of tattoos and tattooing techniques.

Collins was the motto of "Good tattoos are not cheap tattoos are not good."

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