Saturday, May 2nd 2026 - 3pm MTCC - Cost $350 CDN
Andrea Afferni Seminar
Seminars:
Learn from the best
Seminar by Artist Andrea Afferni
Saturday, May 2nd 2026 - 3PM
Cost $350 CAD
This Unique Live Seminar will be a great opportunity to learn colour and black & grey realism. You can follow and see closely the legendary Andrea Afferni at work. Andrea will be travelling from Milan, Italy to share his approach to tattooing.
Attendees will practice mixing the various skin tones and colours necessary for exceptional realism on skin. Andrea will tattoo LIVE and will go over every method in detailed explanation to truly help you unlock and perfect the secrets to this intricate genre. An authenticated Certificate of Participation is given to all participants.
To reserve your seat, attendees must make a
$50.00 CAD deposit online with a major credit or debit card at:
Balance to be paid to the instructor at the seminar before admission.​
World renowned Italian Tattoo Artist Andrea Afferni, a pupil of one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, the Master Alberto Lanteri, portrait painter of Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth.
In 2003 he invented the ‘Magnetic Style’, in order to express a more ‘futuristic and modern’ result.
In 2010 he was named one of the Best Portrait Tattoo Artists in the world by the English pioneer Lal Hardy, in the book “The mammoth book of tattoo art”. Andrea Afferni will share his unique methods of concept, design, color theory, ink mixing and application as well as black and Grey tones and portraits.
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Andrea has won many awards and he has been interviewed on more than 40 International magazines and Art books including ‘Under the skin of rock ‘n roll’ with tattoos based on famous portraits of Rock icons, in “Tattoo realistia’ book , in the book ‘TATTOO Best of Artists’, ‘Tattoos Bright Colors’ Boook and ‘Tattoo’ Book by Logos.
He was inteviewed in 2011 on Italia1 “Studio Aperto” during the news with a space dedicated to him entitled real paintings on the skin.
In 2010 Andrea Afferni was the first Tattoo Artist in Italy to hold the first Seminar on the technique of realism and portrait in black and gray during an Italian Tattoo Convention and he was one of the first in Italy to hold face to face seminars to others professional tattoo artists in his private Atelier in the North of Italy, since then other artists have been inspired by his teaching program.
