Guy Aitchison Biography
Guy Aitchison is a tattoo artist and a painter who paints album covers in 1985 and began tattooing in 1988. He was also a guest artist on LA Ink. Guy gave Rob Zombie his first tattoo in 1989 when he was 21. Also, he is the brother of former LA Ink TV personality, Hannah Aitchison who is also a tattoo artist.
Guy Aitchison Age
Guy Aitchison was born in 1968 in Michigan. He is now 51 years old of age.
Guy Aitchison Wife
He owns a studio called HyperSpace Studios with his wife, Michele Wortman, who is also a tattoo artist and painter. He also has a sister called Hannah.
Guy Aitchison Education
The educational side of Guy’s career fell together very naturally, starting with being offered a chance to teach a seminar at one of Dennis Dwyer and J.D. Crowe’s Tattoo Tour conventions, which at the time were the gold standard of tattoo expositions. The idea of presenting educational material in a seminar format was revolutionary; previously, tattooists had always protected their information with great suspicion, since the industry was so small and so closed.
With the blossoming of tattooing and the influx of new artists, there was room for everyone to grow without stepping on each other’s toes. Guy’s seminar that weekend was about doing coverup tattoos, and he handed out illustrated 30-page booklets to everyone that attended. As he did different seminars from time to time, he created different new booklets, and inevitably was asked by people who couldn’t attend the seminars if they could just buy the books. From this beginning, his books evolved into the massive 368 pages Reinventing The Tattoo, which also includes a detailed DVD, as an effort to create the most comprehensive learning package possible.
Guy Aitchison Tattoo
He gave Rob Zombie his first tattoo in 1989 when he was 21. Guy Aitchison was already in an apprenticeship at the Jacklich Corporation in the art department by age 17. After completing his apprenticeship he began painting record covers for Vinnie Moore, David Chastain, Apocrypha, Hex, Skatenigs, and mostly for California-based Shrapnel Records. In 1989 he began a tattooing apprenticeship at Bob Olson’s Custom Tattooing in Chicago for two years.
He opened his own tattoo studio, Guilty & Innocent Productions, which remained a top standing shop until 1998 when it shut down so that he could move to the country to focus more on painting. Having tattoo work in magazines like Outlaw Biker, Tattoo Review, Skin Art, and also fine art books.
Guy believes that tattooing is a very critical type of commercial art. Success or failure of any project has implications for the client and forces an extra degree of dedication and flexibility on the part of the artist, and the clients’ participation helps maintain a flow of fresh images and ideas for the artist.
On the other hand, he says painting lacks all the traditional constraints of tattooing such as size, budget, pain tolerance, erase-ability, and the client’s taste. It allows for experimentation, normally not recommended in tattooing, plus a chance to chase after obscure and specific personal notions with little commercial appeal.
Due greatly to his clients, he has been trusted to work on their skin almost freely and therefore he leaks his paintings over into his tattoos. His work generally focuses on natural geometry and organic structure, and all types of psychedelic & transcendental art. He believes this art form should be rendered as art pieces but doesn’t know whether or not they actually ever will.
Guy Aitchison Conference
In 2012, Guy Aitchison took part in the first International conference of the Tattoo community where world-class Tattoo Artists such as Bob Tyrrell, Stéphane Chaudesaigues, Joe Capobianco, Jeff Gogue, Alex De Pase, Boris, Nikko Hurtado, Nick Baxter attended seminars on various technical skills. The purpose of this event was to give tattooists the opportunity to improve their level. The 2012 editions of the Worldwide Tattoo Conference took place in Chicago and London.
Guy Aitchison Salary | Net Worth
His estimated salary and Net Worth are under review.