Hi I'm Casey!

I'm an artist. I do tattoos for most of my living, and I'm also interested in puppetry, printmaking, chainmaille & leatherworking, and mixed media art. I currently live in Chicago, in the Uptown neighborhood.

I'm self-taught as a tattoo artist. I've been tattooing more or less full time for about 2 years now, and previous to that I spent about 4 years on and off doing tattoos as a side job while studying biology and art in college and then working full time in fisheries conservation and later a genetics lab.

I make tattoos mainly with a rotary machine, but I sometimes return to my handpoke roots for smaller stippled pieces and delicate work on the fingers or ears. I love to work in many different styles, but some of my favorites are full color american traditional, thick line illustrative greyscale, and abstract large scale blackwork.

You can find the most current tattoo photos and flash on Instagram @bogwater.taffy, or to book a tattoo visit my booking page for more information.

I'm also on Bluesky @bogwatertaffy and working on a tumblr as well :) honestly kind of excited about that because the tagging system there actually works, so it should be a relatively searchable archive of what all I've tattooed once I get it up and running.

You can email me at bogwatertaffy@proton.me.

This is my cat Goober: