Ink Spot Tattoos

Welcome to The Ink Spot Tattoos & Piercing

Celebrating ten years of keeping Melrose park beautiful and spreading art everywhere !!!

[b]Matteo Anderson[/b]
Matt opened The Ink Spot in 2002 with a vision. His vision was to have a tattoo studio without an attitude - a place where anyone could walk in and feel welcome, a place where everyone would walk out feeling better about themselves.

Tattoos are a right of passage, a stepping stone on each client's journey through life. The Ink Spot exists to help each individual create that foundation - that solid piece of work that will be there each step of the Way.

[b]Darryl Melzer[/b]
Darryl has been a tattooer for twenty years and counting. His apprenticeship was done under his brother Dan, whose tattoo lineage stretches to old Japan. He built and worked at Tatu Tattoo in Chicago for the first eight years of his career, and moved on to Modern Tattoo near Gret Lakes Naval Base to work side by side with his brother once more. Now at the Ink Spot for almost a decade, he is still going strong.

Styles vary with each client, and Darryl has made it his mission to make each person who sits in his chair the single most important person in the world while they are in his chair. From portraits to free turkey tattoos for Thanksgiving, he guarantees satisfaction with a smile

[b]Dan Melzer[/b]
Dan Melzer has been a tattooer for over thirty five years, and has worked side by side with some of the greatest artists in the business. He has been the foundation for several of Chicagoland's best shops, and is an irreplaceable part of The Ink Spot. His knowledge of fine art, world culture, and the history of tattooing brings his clients options that few artists offer.

With a passion for life and knowledge that is easily seen in his paintings and sculptures, Dan is a perpetual student of all things. He attended thirteen years of fine art school at NIU, and is currently working towards his licensing in Chinese Herbal Medicine.

[b]Rob Downs[/b]
Rob Downs has been a professional tattoo artist since 2007, with a two year formal apprenticeship prior to that. He is a graduate of the American Acadamy of Art Chicago in watercolor and illustration, and able to handle any custom tattoo large or small, black and grey or color. Rob loves the creative process of designing custom works with the clients input. Eskimos have seven different words for his beard.

Rob is a reckless smuggler with a sarcastic wit, he is a very practical guy. But through his adventures he has evoked compassion, a trait he didn't know he possessed. A loner who realizes the importance of being part of a group and helping for the common good.

[b]Anthony Solis[/b]
Anthony Solis is a student of the bizarre. His background in art has been influenced by Japanese traditionalism, glass blowing, and dead things. Tattooing for twenty nine hundred fourteen days and counting, he is the founding father and sole member of the Guild of Tattooers Who Don't Give a Damn About Their Bio.

Anthony is a dedicated family man, a consummate multimedia (for lack of a proper description of his resin/watercolor/dead things compilations) artist, and a total Creator.

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