'It's just kind of like full circle of what I wished existed when I was younger in Redding and now it does.Three years after formally opposing the Redding Rancheria's plans to move the Win-River Resort & Casino closer to Interstate 5, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors reversed course Tuesday and voted to support the project. 'Iron Mountain Tattoo, so we work really closely with Curt Baer the owner of that shop to make sure that this expo is really good and has a real professional atmosphere and artists.' That's kind of like the grand prize of the event.' 'On Sunday we have what's called best of show, which is where it's the best tattoo that was actually done here at the event. Sunday was when the biggest award was given out. They win awards, they get some free play from win-river and then we've got some awards that we give them and stuff like that.' There's a first place, second place, third place.

'We have a variety of different categories from things like large color or small black and grey, traditional, cover-up, and then we have a panel of judges that are all artists here in the show, and then they judge the tattoos.

We've got people as far away as Virginia, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, and Nevada.'ĭavid said artists tattoo the entire weekend and at the end of each day there is a contest where they could win prizes. 'It's an invitational, so all of the artists that are here were invited personally to be here,” David continued, “there's about 10 or so local artists and then there's about 80 plus artists who all traveled here. The 3-day event featured artists locally and from around the country. 'This was just something that I wish existed when I was younger, and so just having 90 plus artists to choose from and all different styles and then good artists that have been vetted by the producers like us of the show so we know that every single person here is good,” David said. Producer of the expo Paul David explained to KRCR’s Tyler Van Dyke it’s what he always wanted when he was 18. Tattoo artists, enthusiasts, and customers filled the Win-River Resort and Casino in Redding for the fifth annual Nor Cal Tattoo Expo.

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