A tattoo studio that draws the piece before it books the sitting

On the board

Services and prices

Every service carries the figure the counter takes. Where a price is marked “from”, the reason and the difference are quoted before any work begins.

• Design consultation

  $40

  Printed price · about 45 minutes

  Half an hour at the counter with whatever reference has been brought in, the placement on the body and the size the piece has to work at. An artist draws a thumbnail while the conversation is happening, says what the work would cost and how many sittings it needs, and the fee comes off the first of them.

  Best for a first piece, or for an idea that has never been drawn at the size it has to be worn.

• Flash piece

  $180

  Printed price · about 90 minutes

  A design taken straight off one of the studio's own flash sheets, at the size it was drawn for. The line weight, the sitting length and the price are all known before a needle is opened, because the drawing already exists and nothing about it is being worked out on the day.

  Best for a small piece where the drawing is already right and only the placement is being decided.

• Half-day sitting

  $520

  Printed price · about 4 hours

  A single booked block for custom work drawn for this piece and no other. The stencil is placed and approved on the skin before anything starts, and the block is worked with a break written into the middle of it. The block ends when the time ends rather than when the drawing does.

  Best for custom work that has been drawn at the consultation and sized to one sitting.

• Full-day sitting

  $960

  Printed price · about 8 hours

  The same custom work booked as a whole day, with the chair held for one person from opening to close. A large piece is laid out across the day in sections and each section is finished before the next one begins, so a day that has to stop early stops on a finished edge rather than in the middle of one.

  Best for a back, a sleeve or any piece that would otherwise be split across several half-days.

• Cover and rework

  from $260

  Printed price · about 3 hours

  Existing work is looked at first, in daylight, and the honest answer comes before the price does. Some pieces cover cleanly, some need lightening elsewhere before anything can go over them, and some read better reworked than buried. The quote follows that answer rather than the other way round.

  Best for older work that has blurred, or for a piece that no longer reads the way it was meant to.

• Touch-up sitting

  $60

  Printed price · about 30 minutes

  A short sitting once a piece has healed, to put back any line or shading that lifted while the skin was settling. It is booked at the end of the sitting the piece came from, four to six weeks ahead, because that is when the skin has finished moving and not before.

  Best for a healed piece from this studio that has settled unevenly in one or two places.

The story

A studio that draws before it tattoos

Every sitting here starts with a drawing rather than a machine. An artist asks what the piece is for, where it has to sit on the body when the body is at rest, and how it should read in ten years rather than in the first week. That is where most of the difference between two tattoos is decided, and it is the first thing to go when a chair is running behind.

The studio books one chair at a time for exactly that reason. A sitting is given the length the work needs rather than the length the diary would prefer, and the artist who starts a piece stays with it through every sitting it takes. Nothing is bundled, nothing is added at the counter, and a design that would not hold its line at the size and the placement asked for is said so before it begins rather than after.

A first visit can expect half an hour of talking and drawing before anything is switched on, a price that was already printed on the services page, and a stencil placed and approved on the skin before the first line goes in. It should not expect laser removal, permanent cosmetics, piercing or anything belonging with a medical practitioner; those are listed further down and they are listed because the answer is always the same one.

Signed at the chairMara Quinn, owner and lead artist

1. 01

   The written price is the counter price

   Every service on the board carries the figure the till takes. Where a price is marked “from”, the reason and the difference are quoted before the work begins.

2. 02

   The wrong service is refused, not sold

   If the chosen service will not do what was asked for, the artist says which one will. That happens in the reply to a message as readily as it happens at the chair.

3. 03

   One piece, one artist

   The artist who starts a piece is the artist who finishes it, across every sitting it takes. Nobody is handed between chairs to keep a diary moving, and nobody is told at the end of a day that somebody else will pick the outline up.

Said afterwards

From the visitor book

Mariel D.

Design consultation

Friday 14 August 2026, 11:20 AM EDT

No. 01

“The consultation was the whole difference. I was asked where it would sit when my arm was down, which nobody had asked before, and the thumbnail was drawn there at the counter instead of emailed to me a week later. The price and the number of sittings were both written down before I left, and neither of them moved.”

Yusuf V.

Half-day sitting

Thursday 2 July 2026, 5:45 PM EDT

No. 02

“The stencil went on three times before anybody was happy with it. That took an hour and it was the right hour to spend, because the shape follows my shoulder now instead of sitting across it. The break in the middle of the block was in the diary from the start rather than asked for halfway through.”

Andre B.

Flash piece

Saturday 13 June 2026, 9:40 AM EDT

No. 03

“Price on the sheet was the price I paid. The touch-up was booked before I left, six weeks out, and nothing appeared at the counter that had not already been said at the chair. The design was one of theirs and it went on at the size it was drawn for, which is apparently the whole reason it could be priced in advance.”