Brando is an Artist and the Owner of Stay True Tattoo. Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1981, he began a lifelong love with art in all forms. Going on after High School to study studio art on a scholarship at the prestigious Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Brando has been a Phoenix native since ’05. In the shop Brando leads his crew in delivering top of the line custom tattooing to Phoenix in an art gallery setting. Brando is an internationally known, award winning artist who has been featured on the covers and in dozens of tattoo magazines over the span of his career.
Prior to starting Stay True Tattoo in ’07, Brando had been tattooing 5 years specializing early on in custom work. Brando proudly tattoos exclusively custom and freehand pieces, and helps his clients to achieve the highest level of artwork in a custom tattoo. Specializing in color portrait and realism, Brando has carved out a corner in the tattoo industry, becoming extremely well known for his horror portraits and dark imagery. Brando’s work is instantly recognizable for its rich layered earth tones, bright complimentary colors and fluid movement. Also taking the time to truly make a piece flow on the body, Brando works extensively with background movement. Thus achieving a style reminiscent of the oil paintings he has studied throughout life. A client of Brando’s once coined his style as “Beautiful Horror” and it’s hard to sum it up better than that.
When he’s not at the shop he can be found spending time with his beautiful wife Katarina, and their children Tristan, Leilani and Killian. A gearhead of sorts, he’s always got a project or 4 in the garage. Brando recently wrapped up a 5 year project of completely rebuilding his 1965, F100 shop truck from the ground up which can be seen in several shop promo shots used over the years. He built a 1968 single cylinder benelli hardtail, and did a complete rebuild on his ’10 Harley Davidson 48. Being a full time husband, father, artist and business owner keeps Brando busy!
Often booked out months in advance, Brando travels to conventions regularly. Allowing collectors all over the country to get tattooed in their home states. Stay posted for dates in the “news” section! You may also swing into Stay True Tattoo for your consultation, because of such high response we do not book anything over the phone or email. We do a full consult for each tattoo in addition to taking a 60$ deposit. Brando’s schedule is Wed and Sun 12-6, and Thu-Sat 12-9. You can check out Brando’s personal website and full portfolio at www.tattoosbybrando.com. Thank you for taking the time to check us out, Brando and the Stay True Family look forward to working with you!!
Stay True Tattoo is a high end custom tattoo shop/art gallery located in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. Stay True Tattoo is one of the best tattoo shops in Arizona! We specialize in custom tattoos, including horror tattoos and portrait tattoos, where each tattoo artist will sit down with you on a one to one basis and create custom tattoo artwork for you. We have some of the best tattoo artists in Arizona.