My newest Tattoo. The mountains & shading came out EPIC! (Submitted by @californialoha)
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Keone Nunes.Growing up in Wai’anae, he was instructed in the ways of traditional native Hawaiian tattooing. He also studied under tattoo master Su’a Sulu’ape Paulo. Today, Nunes is the foremost revivalist of ancient Hawaiian tattoo traditions. Of the 175 motifs he knows of, many run along the lines of genealogical designs specific to family origins. Noa, designs free from genealogical affiliation, are used for adornment, protection and other purposes.Nunes does not discriminate against his clientele by race, but rather judges the motives and character of the individual seeking a traditional motif.Nunes is relatively unaffected by the explosion of the tattoo scene on O’ahu and the widespread popularity of tattoos across the world. And he likes to keep it that way. ‘It’s hard to get in touch with me if you don’t know how,’ Nunes says. ‘It’s a different type of person that comes to me. The people that I see are not really interested in having that particular type of tattoo done with a machine.’ 
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