Local tattoo artist heads for 'Tattoo Highway'
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Amy Wagner of Honolulu�s Tattoolicious is joining the team of tattoo artists in A&E�s �Tattoo Highway.� She�ll appear in tomorrow's episode at 7 p.m.
Amy has worked for Tattoolicious for the past three years and her art can also be seen at art venues, clothing stores and, of course, on bodies.
�Tattoo Highway� is a show that follows artist Thomas Pendelton as he travels the country in a mobile tattoo parlor of his own design.
According to the show�s Web site, �Whether he�s tattooing a Crown Dancer for an Apache Elder in New Mexico or a bat-winged heart on a mortician's chest in Sacramento, Thomas is on the road searching for the people and the stories that never made it to a tattoo shop.�
Casting agents are deployed across the nation to find new artists.
�There was a casting so I sent them a video,� Wagner said. �Then there were questions, it was just like a job interview.�
Wagner has worked for Tattoolicious for the past three years, and her art can also be seen at art venues, clothing stores and of course bodies. God and watercolors is a couple of major influences in her work.
�I do more of a �neo-traditional� style,� she said. �It has regular elements like maybe roses and skulls, but with brighter colors and realistic shadings.�