Inner-War Tattoos and Piercings Brings Their High-Quality Brands of Artwork to Moose Jaw

Inner-War Tattoos and Piercings

Brings Their High-quality Brand of Artwork to Moose Jaw You don’t have to chat with James his trade as an artist and developing fect reproduction, they’ll add their Foster from Inner-War Tattoos and a sterling reputation. own flourishes to enhance the final Piercings very long to get a feel “We have people coming from piece. And they’re more than will for his passion for the business and different provinces getting tattoos ing to pull something together out love of the artform. from him; people sometimes will of the ether if their client has little And since they first opened shop at even come up from the States,” idea of what they want. 20 River Street East last July, that Foster said with a tone of admira devotion has translated into an im tion. “He’s been in magazines, he pressive array of clientele, many of has been offered to teach in school whom have become repeat customand things like that. He’s just a pheers after the whole experience. nomenal artist himself and he has a COVID-19 might have put a damp pretty amazing following… it’s just er on business during the spring incredible the skill he has and the months, but things are expected to work he does.” pick up where they left off once With so many people coming things are fully open again, just through his doors to be worked on, like they did when their doors first expansion seemed like a natural fit. opened. “I know he wanted to own multiple different shops and tattooing was his thing,” Foster said. “He loves it and the more he put into it, it was just more of a ‘success’ feeling for him. He’s been through some stuff A sampling of James Foster’s recent in his life, so this is kind of way artwork. for him to do something positive “One thing [Woody] taught me and and just gain a footing in life for I learned even before I came here himself. is there’s a difference between a “I know he’d lost a family member tattooist and a tattoo artist,” Foster when he was just trying to start to explained. “A tattooist that some James Foster is the manager of the build Inner-War here in Moose Jaw, one will take a picture someone Moose Jaw location of Inner-War and so a lot of the pain and emotion comes in with and will make the Tattoos. he was feeling from the family loss tattoo look identical to that, with “It’s actually been really good; my was put into the shop.” few differences. With a tattoo artist, boss immediately started getting Foster himself has spent more than it comes from our own imaginaclients in and we’ve been booked a year working with Woody to hone tion and our own ideas. We’ve had up pretty much constantly,” Foster his craft, carrying on from his days lots of people come in here with said. “I’ve only been working here in visual arts classes in high school ideas and say ‘I don’t know what I for a few months as the manager, and the wide variety of courses and want,’ and we just immediately start but in the time I’ve been here at classes he’s taken to further develop throwing ideas out them, and most Inner-War it’s been extremely, ex his skills. people say ‘sounds great, you’re tremely busy.” “It was online courses and courses the artist, let’s do this… We prefer It certainly doesn’t hurt to have the I could take in shops with hyperit that way, it keeps us artists and kind of reputation Inner-War has realism, abstract painting, colour that’s what we enjoy the most.” built over the last two decades – to ing, all kinds of different kinds of Take that idea, combine with an the point that they’ve become one artwork and styles,” Foster said, absolute love of what you do, and of the only franchise tattoo out adding that he also dabbles in muthat’s what Inner-War Tattoos is all lets in the country, with their main sic and music production. “So art is about. shop in Regina and another in Fort just my thing.” “That’s one reason I got into tattooQu’Appelle. One aspect of tattoo artwork Innering, I just love being able to draw And that’s all thanks to the brilliant War takes pride in is literally that on people all day and create beauwork of Armand ‘Woody’ Pelletier, – their artwork. Unless the custiful things that they walk around who for 29 years has been plying tomer specifically requests a perwith and are proud of,” Foster said.