Today we’d like to introduce you to Caleb Gandy
Hi Caleb, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I started in 2003 the wrong way tattooing in my bedroom and graduating to my cousins kitchen. I was a senior in high school in 08-09 and got my apprenticeship over the Christmas break. It wasn’t the best shop but there was a dope artist there that took me under his wing and showed me the right way. We shop hopped and did conventions together for a few years and parted ways. Then I just bounced around between Harker heights and college station for a few years.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Smooth seas don’t make skilled sailors. So the struggles have definitely prepared me so im not easily rattled and I know my limitations and what I can do.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I generally do Japanese and American traditional tattoos. But I do whatever walks in the door if I can. I do take pride in the fact that in a world full of iPads I still hit pencil to paper or marker to skin and not just trace and warp to fit. I redraw every tattoo from infinity signs to dragons.
What makes you happy?
Being on this side of the ground and this side of that wall. My kids. I find happiness in painting and tattooing, some days do feel like work but if everyday was good life would be boring
Contact Info:
- Instagram: @brick.marinara
