Ed hardy biography tattoos for couples

Hardy was born in in Iowa but grew up in Costa Mesa, California. Donald Edward Talbott Hardy began his career in tattooing at a young age. "I got interested in tattoos when I was ten years old," he has said, "I started drawing on neighborhood kids.

I was doing colored pencil tattoos on kids, using Maybelline eyeliner, I did that for about three years, and drew all this flash." His grandmother kept a lot of these sheets, and old photographs, so this early era of his tattoo work is pretty well documented.

There is no denying that Destiny was previewed in a fairly significant way in the young Hardy's early life.

Ed hardy biography tattoos for couples

When Ed was a teenager, his interest turned from tattooing to creating imagery inspired by the So Cal hot-rod, custom-car, and surf cultures. In high school, an teacher exposed him to contemporary art and literature, like Pop Art and Beat poetry.

Hardy visited Los Angeles galleries, including the now-legendary Ferus Gallery. He saw the wor