Check Out This Tattoo Session That Artist Oliver Peck Hosted at the Sailor Jerry Airstream (SXSW)

Behind the noise of SXSW down in Austin, Oliver Peck was sitting in the Sailor Jerry Rum vintage Airstream, tattooing special guests. Peck is famous to some for a previous relationship with reality tv star/tattooist Kat Von D and to others for being one of the most bad ass, old school ink slingers around. Based in Dallas, TX, Peck has made a name for himself out of Elm Street Tattoo and traveling the nation as part of the Vans Warped Tour (he also has a spot on our 50 greatest tattoo artists list). For Sailor Jerry, he provided the classics… deft hand stenciled tattoos direct from a Norman Collins archive of tattoo flash.

I went for some classics - a heart and banner (the name of the only woman I can ever love emblazoned within), an aloha monkey and the requisite snakehead dagger. Three tattoos in a quick hit. Not dissimilar from a sailor on shore leave.

Fitting really, as we were collected in the airstream in part to celebrate the release of Homeward Bound: The Life and Times of Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry, a new companion book to Erich Weiss' brilliant Hori Smoku documentary. The book is available at sailorjerry.com.

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