Today we’d like to introduce you to Nathan Menke.
Hi Nathan, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
That’s entirely too much. I’m from the west coast originally, born in Oregon raised in a small town in Southern California in the 80s/90s. Lived in Washington state where I started tattooing in 2004. Did another apprenticeship in Fort Worth Texas in 2006 for Jarrod Richardson at psycho clown tattoos. Skip to the present moved to Florida in 2014 opened my own shop in Starke in October 2014 and have been here ever since. The most recent evolution is we now run one of the fastest growing 3d printing business in north Florida in the same building as well. Making cosplay props, functional parts and whatever people ask us to make.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Never a smooth road. I started tattooing when google wasn’t a thing there was no AI. Hell we had to MAKE our own needles on bars to even do the work with. It was a very gate kept community. No real social media so you had to physically advertise yourself.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I specialize in clean solid tattoos. I can do everything from black and grey portraits and realism to the most traditional tattoo you can imagine and everywhere in between. I’m not a phenomenal artist by nature but I am a great human photo copy machine and can apply almost anything I can see in any style to the skin.
How do you define success?
Success is having the bills paid and the home life relaxed. Being able to provide a better life for your kids.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://Www.tattoo301.com
- Instagram: Natemenke
- Facebook: Tattoo301,com
- Youtube: Artbynathanmenke
- Other: https://Www.loadout3dstudio.com
