| Ed Hardy's High Art Tattoos and his Business | | | | blue-collar guy who instilled in Hardy a love of craft, |
| By : Ed Hardy Clothingforty years gone, Don Ed Hardy | | | | Asian art and the quiet power of Giorgio Morandi's tiny |
| blew off a Yale fine-art fellowship to chase the rogue | | | | still life footage. Cook wasn't happy when his |
| art of tattoo, a undying and regularly taboo tradition | | | | presented protege jumped into the socially murky |
| that charmed him as a boy in the Orange County | | | | waters of tattoo. But it worked out well for the plucky |
| beach town of Corona del Mar. By 10 he was drawing | | | | Hardy boy, who blurred the supposed boundary |
| vehicles and eagles on kids' backs and arms with wet | | | | between'high'' and'low'' art and carved a path thru the |
| colored pencils and Maybelline eyeliner. | | | | worlds of art and commerce. He has drawn images |
| At the San Francisco Art Institute in the early '60s, | | | | on torsos, canvases and giant scrolls with equal |
| Hardy mastered the demanding art of intaglio etching | | | | conviction and aplomb. |
| under the tutelage of the late Gordon Cook, a no-jive | | | | |