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Hi! Thanks for your interest in my work! I am passionate about nature and love textural ink, Sumi brush paint, watercolour, and grey scale tattoos. See some examples below of styles I work in! Nature themed art only, no script, or copies of other artist’s styles/work please. For script, I recommend you find an artist who is a script specialist.

Toltec Spirit Tattoo is about working with people to create beautiful, original and meaningful images.

Please have a look at my “Flash” designs for a more immediate and lower cost tattoo. There are a variety of styles to be found there. These pieces are priced lower than the cost of a custom tattoo, because I created them from my own inspirations and so the artwork is already done.

I am a plant-based artist (to be transparent, this means 99% of my diet is plants, I occasionally make exceptions when my health needs something animal based and I believe the choice is holistically ethical). I believe in profit sharing with Mother Earth. 10% of my revenue is donated monthly to Nature conservancy Canada to offset the environmental impact of the disposables I use. I am excited about the increasing availability of compostable products for tattooing, which I use.

I practice what I call “slow tattooing’, which means fully rendered, traditional art on paper (except for realismcover-ups where procreate is the better choice) and then a handmade stencil. Digitalization is a big time saver, but I believe there are big benefits to doing this process by hand. On paper, watercolour and Chinese sumi, each interact in unique and interesting ways to make effects the computer can’t duplicate. Often some of the best effects happen this way. Each time I redraw the design, for a painting and then a stencil of the painting, it improves, and I ultimately understand the design intimately by the time I tattoo it. I like to really take my time with each client and so when you come into my beautiful studio space, there is a relaxed peaceful pace and also a careful focused process for applying the stencil and the tattoo itself. For this reason, a flat daily rate works better than an hourly rate. My daily rate is $1000 plus hst. A day usually starts at 930am when you arrive and ends around 430 pm when I finish the tear down and cleaning process. This window can shift slightly as needed. When you arrive for a tattoo you can be sure that I have already put a full days work into the process, sometimes more. The cost of the tattoo covers all the additional time needed. If a tattoo is less than a day’s work, the hourly rate is $200. Both of these rates are all inclusive of the consultation process, design, stencil, tattooing and follow-up touch up session as well. Starting Nov 1, 2023, all new custom bookings will require a $200 deposit to secure. Flash designs require a $100 deposit. This deposit is fully refundable under the policies that can be found on my policy page. Conditions that affect the deposit’s refundability are time spent on custom designs and proximity to the actual tattoo date.

Thank you so much, Allison

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At this time there are six charity tattoo designs. All profits from these designs go to benefit NCC (Nature Conservancy Canada), Ontario Turtle Conservation, Hope House, CMHA or Woodland Cultural Centre. Please click the button below to inquire about these charity tattoo designs.