Dave Warshaw is a tattoo artist at Avalon Tattoo II on Adams Avenue in Normal Heights, San Diego, with nearly 30 years of tattooing experience and more than 17 years at this second-floor studio at 3039 Adams Avenue. Warshaw's tattoo style draws from Southern California car, surf, skate, comic, Tiki, and punk rock culture — an aesthetic vocabulary he also channels into ballpoint pen illustrations on wood that have been exhibited at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles and at Vishuddha Creatives in South Park. The gallery connection between tattoo art and wall art runs through Adams Avenue in the 92116 corridor, where Ashton Gallery at Art on 30th curates and exhibits original work in a similar artist-run format a few blocks south. His commercial illustration portfolio includes design work for Bali Hai restaurant, Cutwater Spirits, Trader Vic's, Hippy Killer Garage Co., and Satellite Amps, with published work appearing in multiple tattoo magazines and tattoo art books. Warshaw also plays guitar in The Creepy Creeps, a San Diego surf-garage-punk band active for more than 25 years with releases on Dionysus Records — the group was hand-selected by Robert Plant to open for his Band of Joy shows in Southern California in 2011. Custom tattoo consultations require a drawing deposit and an in-person or email exchange of reference material before Warshaw begins the design-to-stencil process. The SoCal car-culture and skate-graphics influence in his tattoo work overlaps with the streetwear and art-supply retail at Gstyle Shop — Streetwear & Art Supplies, which stocks the same Southern California visual vernacular in wearable form on Adams Avenue. His Urbantaxidermy series — surreal creatures rendered in ballpoint pen on custom-cut Watson Laminates skate decks — merges the same controlled line discipline he applies to skin with the permanence constraints of ink on raw wood grain.