Jo Ann Atwood is a tattoo artist working from Avalon Tattoo II at 3039 Adams Avenue in Normal Heights, San Diego, in the 92116 ZIP on the western stretch of the Adams Avenue corridor. Her brand, Angel Hands Tattoo and Design, specializes in portraits, pinup figures, and detailed illustrative work she describes as portraits, pinups, and pretty things. Jo Ann pursued a formal art education before spending five years working toward an apprenticeship in tattooing, a training path that grounds her needle work in drawing fundamentals, color theory, and compositional structure. The illustrative approach to custom tattoo design shares an artistic vocabulary with the fine-art studios along Adams Avenue, including the mixed-media exhibition work at Papaha Gallery & Studio in the Normal Heights corridor. She is of Filipino, American, and Canadian heritage, and her portfolio reflects a range of cultural influences visible in the linework, shading gradients, and color palettes she applies across skin tones. Cover-up tattoos make up a significant portion of Jo Ann's booking calendar, requiring design compositions that integrate, reshape, or fully conceal existing ink using strategic color layering and negative-space techniques. Avalon Tattoo II, her home shop, traces its lineage to the original Avalon Tattoo founded in 1989 in Pacific Beach by Fip Buchannan and Patty Kelley, making it one of the oldest custom tattoo lineages in San Diego. The Adams Avenue arts and self-expression community extends beyond body art into the vintage and handmade goods at Home Start Thrift Boutique, where the secondhand model supports both creative discovery and community benefit. Jo Ann books several months in advance through Instagram direct messages or by calling the Avalon II front desk, and she shares the studio with artists Craig Driscoll, Ryan, Connal, and Ali.