An American Tattooist in Paris would have been a perfect title for this interview with artist Sunny Buick, but I just realized she was born in Canada. I'm watching Sunny tattoo a classic Americana work on a guy. She's wearing a kicky beret and speaking French, the only thing missing is the baguette slung over her shoulder to complete the Parisian stereotype. Yet, most in the tattoo community know Sunny as the California blonde who went through a seven-year tattoo apprenticeship with the legendary...
I like her work very much and I had no idea she was based in Paris... I've never been a big fan of the artist she works with (and who's relatively famous in the French Tattoo scene) which means I never looked at who works in that shop.
Now that I know she does, I might look into getting some work done by her in the future!
Great intervieuw, like here work, as well as her teacher´s Henry Goldfield, and even more because he did his first tattoo in the Schipperstraat in Antwerp, in the same place were i got my first tattoo, well he put his a few years before i did, hahaha..
Saludos!!
courtneyriot
STAFF
Los Angeles, CA
NOV 01, 2006 06:00 AM