Vern has been professionally tattooing for over a decade in northern California.  An artist most of his life, he collects ethnic art including pieces from Africa, Japan, New Guinea, Indonesia, and Thailand.  In addition to tattooing, Vern is an accomplished sketch artist, painter and he enjoys making sterling silver jewelry - including pieces for many famous people including Bon Jovi!

As one of Sacramento's premier tattoo artists, Vern specializes in custom tattoo work including original drawings, portraits, cover ups, renewing old tats.  While his work is influenced by Asian cultures having spent six years in Asia, he is an accomplished tattoo artist and can create just about any tattoo design you might be able to imagine.  You can view Vern's portfolio of Tattoo works.

Vern can create custom artwork (called FLASH) for you, is adept at copying or modifying existing designs and is an expert at cover-ups and redoing bad tattoos.  If you have a tattoo that isn't what it should be (or was suppose to be) or have a tattoo that needs some new color and life, Vern's adept at bringing it old tats to life!  Check out his pages of Cover Ups and Redo tattoos. 

In addition to being a tattoo enthusiast and artist, Vern is a SCUBA diver, practices Martial arts and is a practicing Buddhist.  Some of his favorite possessions are his Harley Davidson, his Rat Rod, vintage pickup and his Scion XB which he says is too much fun.  His favorite companion is his German Shepard dog. 

Vern has several tattoos including portraits of both of his parents, several pinup girls and is currently experimenting with tattooing himself!

You can also check out Vern on www.inkednation.com - you can view his profile, view more photos of his work, read his blogs and even contact him at: 

http://www.inkednation.com/dermogopher

It's a pretty cool site for Tattoo enthusiasts - kind of like myspace but much better designed and very functional and interactive.

To make an appointment, Call Vern at (916) 201-2725

VERN'S HOURS:

Wednesday - Sunday  NOON - 8pm

- OR BY APPOINTMENT -

Working exclusively at

THE BACKDOOR STUDIO

1316 Del Paso Blvd   Sacramento CA 95815

(916) 927-2136

RATES UPON REQUEST