Traditional roots. Road-worn future.
We’re Erika + Kyle, a husband-and-wife tattoo team with more than 30 years of combined experience. We’re taking the craft on the road, looking for respected shops, good people, strong local tattoo culture, and guest spots across the United States.
Bold lines. Readable designs. Tattoos built to age well. A little grit, a little humor, and a deep respect for the working history of tattooing.
This is the heartbeat of the site: a clear invitation to tattoo shops across the country. We can update this section every time your route changes.
Available across the USA
We’re actively looking for guest spots in established shops with walk-in traffic, good shop culture, professional standards, and a love for tattooing as a craft.
Colorado → Next Stop: You Tell Us
We’re traveling full-time and planning guest spots as the route unfolds. If your shop is anywhere in the U.S. and the fit is right, send us the city, dates, station terms, walk-in situation, and anything we should know.
Perfect fit: busy street shops, destination shops, traditional shops, eclectic custom shops, and places that value personality without sacrificing professionalism.
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Artist: Erika
Bold, readable, built to last.
Artist: Kyle
Strong structure, smooth value, clear silhouette.
Artist: ERIKYLE
One-off pieces shaped around the person wearing them.
Artist: Erika
Classic tattoo language with our own handwriting.
Artist: Kyle
Big shapes first. Detail where it matters.
Artist: ERIKYLE
Tattoos collected from the people and places we meet.
A tattoo partnership, a marriage, a road story, and one opinionated dog.
We’ve spent decades tattooing, learning what works, what ages, what reads from across the room, and what still looks like a tattoo instead of a trend five years later.
We believe tradition matters, but tradition was never about copying the past. It was about solving the problem of making strong images on living skin with the tools and knowledge available. We carry that principle forward.
Prince is our squirrel-hating road companion, mascot, comic relief, and unofficial quality-control department.
The road gives the work a bigger story: unfamiliar cities, new clients, new shops, new flash, and a growing map of the people tattooing keeps bringing into our lives.
Historic tattooing underneath. ERIKYLE on top.
Design the tattoo to read first. Detail serves the image, not the other way around.
Enough black, enough breathing room, enough structure to grow old with dignity.
Respect the lineage, keep learning, and treat tattooing as a practiced trade.
Know the language well enough to speak with your own accent.
The tattoo trip is part portfolio, part travel journal, part shop-to-shop handshake.
We left the fixed version of life behind to see what happens when tattooing becomes the vehicle instead of the destination.
Follow the route, the guest spots, the weird roadside discoveries, Prince’s ongoing war on squirrels, and the people we meet in tattoo shops across the country.
If you want working artists who can step into a shop, handle appointments, take walk-ins, draw, adapt, and contribute to the energy without needing to be babysat, reach out.
Tell us where you are, the dates you have available, what your guest terms look like, and what kind of clientele walks through your door.
One form for tattoo clients and one doorway for shops. Simple enough to actually use.
Send your city, tattoo idea, approximate size, placement, preferred artist, reference images, and when you’d like to get tattooed.
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Instagram: DM either artist through the links above.
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