We hear it from our customers every day," says Flores.Serenity is a worldwide recognized module of peace. "All of the artists here are really good. I painted about 10 paintings in a week."Ĭustomer service is extremely important to Flores and Fwa and therefore they hired a customer service person to consult with clients about what kind of tattoo they want and who would be the best artist for that customer to work with. "I just started painting last week," he says.
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We like to jazz up a concept."Īlthough free of flash, the walls at the larger Serenity Ink space are adorned with Fwa’s large, colorful paintings.
"Nine out of 10 times you’ll come in here with a design and you’ll walk out with something a little different. "Everything here is custom work," says Flores. There is very little flash (tattoo art) on the walls at Serenity Ink. I like to create things that are one-of-a-kind." "Anything that will expand my knowledge, expand myself. "I prefer stuff that really challenges me, that’s going to make me expand as an artist," he says.
Like Flores, Fwa likes to create realistic-looking tattoos because they are the most difficult. But I’ve always been a quick learner: art, music, computers."įlores spent time working in other local shops before opening Serenity with Fwa last spring.įlores says he prefers to create black-and-gray tattoos, but is willing to tattoo just about anything. "People knew what they were getting into, that I was a beginner, but when they saw my drawings, they were fine with it," he says. When he was first starting out as a tattoo artist, Fwa put ads on Craig’s List, offering tattoos for $20.
"I’m the crazy one of the family," he says. He was raised in a family with four other siblings, but says he is the only one who is artistically inclined. "I try to appreciate everything, even the littlest things, like textures," he says.įwa was born in Thailand and moved to Milwaukee when he was 7 years old. "And I learned from just doing it."Īlthough deeply inspired by the work of others, Fwa prefers to teach himself through everyday life. My dad and uncles tattooed part time as a hobby after work," he says.įwa learned the art of tattooing from observation as well. He started tattooing professionally in 1997, but says he was around tattoo artists his entire life. So far, it’s been going extremely well."īoth Flores and Fwa are self-taught artists.įlores, who was born in Texas, moved to Milwaukee when he was a young child. "We still might merge the two," says Flores. Originally, the plan was to move from the smaller space to the larger one, but it turns out they actually utilize both. Currently, there are nine tattoo artists and two piercers at Serenity Ink and Serenity Ink Two. The owners started out as the sole tattooers in one of the spaces, but business picked up rapidly and they hired more artists and rented a second space. Owned by Jesse Flores and Houa Xiong – who usually goes by "Fwa" – the business is actually spread out between two spaces in the same strip mall. 51st St., is a no-frills shop in Greenfield that opened in April 2012. Recently, thanks to a slew of photos on Facebook of extremely well-done tattoos, an up-and-coming tattoo shop was brought to our attention. This works particularly in favor of creative professionals of all kinds who use social media to expose their work to wider audiences. Images on social media – particularly Facebook – are often more powerful than words.
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