.004
.004
.004
AUSTIN
General Admission
Location
Palmers Event Center
Date
.09 .1-2 .2026
Presenters
8
.004
AUSTIN
General Admission
Location
Palmers Event Center
Date
.09 .1-2 .2026
Presenters
8
BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD
Two days. Eight Presenters. One Purpose.
The thing that pushes your career forward isn't a better algorithm or more followers.
It's starting over. On purpose.
Somewhere along the way, it's easy to forget why you started. Why you love this. The people who get it. The feeling of getting better.
That's what Sessions .004 is about.
Two days of seminars, hands-on workshops, panels, critiques, and conversations with tattooers who care as much about getting better as you do. A place to ask questions, challenge your thinking, sharpen your skills, and leave with ideas you can actually use.
Come for the merch. Stay for the education.
.004
AUSTIN
General Admission
Location
Palmers Event Center
Date
.09 .1-2 .2026
Presenters
8
BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD
Two days. Eight Presenters. One Purpose.
The thing that pushes your career forward isn't a better algorithm or more followers.
It's starting over. On purpose.
Somewhere along the way, it's easy to forget why you started. Why you love this. The people who get it. The feeling of getting better.
That's what Sessions .004 is about.
Two days of seminars, hands-on workshops, panels, critiques, and conversations with tattooers who care as much about getting better as you do. A place to ask questions, challenge your thinking, sharpen your skills, and leave with ideas you can actually use.
Come for the merch. Stay for the education.
Whats Included
General Admission
Location
Palmers Event Center
City
Austin
Date
.09 .1-2 .2026
Presenters
8
General Admission
Location
Palmers Event Center
City
Austin
Date
.09 .1-2 .2026
Presenters
8
WHERE
AUSTIN
08.17-18.2025
WHEN
.09 .1-2 .2026
08.17-18.2025
Workshops & Seminars
Full access to all programming across both days. Every session, every presenter, every workshop.
Q and A panels
The part where we stop pretending we know everything. Ask questions, challenge ideas, share experiences, and hear how different artists approach the same problems
points / counterpoint
We'll take topics that spark discussion and put different perspectives side by side. No winners. No losers. Just conversations that challenge assumptions and remind us there's rarely only one way to approach tattooing.
Materials
Handout books, supplies, tools, and everything you need ready to go. One less thing to stress about besides your career, creativity, and general existence as a tatooer..
Mixers & Community
Community mixers and artist hangouts built around genuine connection, collaboration, and shared growth. This has always been the heart of Sessions.
Meals
Food, snacks, coffee, and lunch are covered throughout both days, instead of running out to fight convention traffic or surviving on overpriced convention center food.
Sessions Connect
Exclusive access to the Sessions app — attendee profiles, resources, and ongoing connection. Somewhere between professional development and collective emotional support.
The Good Stuff
Exclusive Sessions merchandise and sponsor giveaways. Because tattooers love free stuff almost as much as they love complaining.
Shared Creative Crises
Honestly, probably unavoidable.
BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD
Two days. Eight Presenters. One Purpose
The thing that pushes your career forward isn't a better algorithm or more followers.
It's starting over. On purpose.
Somewhere along the way, it's easy to forget why you started. Why you love this. The people who get it. The feeling of getting better.
That's what Sessions .004 is about.
Two days of seminars, hands-on workshops, panels, critiques, and conversations with tattooers who care as much about getting better as you do. A place to ask questions, challenge your thinking, sharpen your skills, and leave with ideas you can actually use.
Come for the merch. Stay for the education.
Here's what's included.
Workshops & Seminars
Full access to all programming across both days. Every session, every presenter, every workshop.
Q and A panels
The part where we stop pretending we know everything. Ask questions, challenge ideas, share experiences, and hear how different artists approach the same problems
points / counterpoint
We'll take topics that spark discussion and put different perspectives side by side. No winners. No losers. Just conversations that challenge assumptions and remind us there's rarely only one way to approach tattooing.
Materials
Handout books, supplies, tools, and everything you need ready to go. One less thing to stress about besides your career, creativity, and general existence as a tatooer..
Mixers & Community
Community mixers and artist hangouts built around genuine connection, collaboration, and shared growth. This has always been the heart of Sessions.
Meals
Food, snacks, coffee, and lunch are covered throughout both days, instead of running out to fight convention traffic or surviving on overpriced convention center food.
Sessions Connect
Exclusive access to the Sessions app — attendee profiles, resources, and ongoing connection. Somewhere between professional development and collective emotional support.
The Good Stuff
Exclusive Sessions merchandise and sponsor giveaways. Because tattooers love free stuff almost as much as they love complaining.
Shared Creative Crises
Honestly, probably unavoidable.
08.17-18.2025
LOCATION
Palmers Event Center
08.17-18.2025
Whats Included
Workshops & Seminars
Full access to all programming across both days. Every session, every presenter, every workshop.
Meals
Food is taken care of so you're not running out mid-session or skipping lunch to hold your seat.
Materials
Handout books, drawing tools, supplies, and everything you need ready to go. One less thing to stress about besides your career, creativity, and general existence as a tattooer.
Mixers & Community
Community mixers and artist hangouts built around genuine connection, collaboration, and shared growth. This has always been the heart of Sessions.
Sessions Connect
Exclusive access to the Sessions app — attendee profiles, resources, and ongoing connection. Somewhere between professional development and collective emotional support.
The Good Stuff
Exclusive Sessions merchandise and sponsor giveaways. Because tattooers love free stuff almost as much as they love complaining.
Shared Creative Crises
Honestly, probably unavoidable.
Hosts, Presenters & Instigators
One of the best parts of Sessions has always been the people in the room. Every year, we bring together presenters, guest hosts, and artists we genuinely respect to share their experience, perspectives, and the things they’ve learned through years of doing the work.
Not because anyone has all the answers, but because tattooing grows stronger when artists openly share knowledge, process, and experience with each other.
Different backgrounds. Different approaches. Different creative paths. All coming together to give our friends at Sessions as much insight, inspiration, and real-world perspective as possible.
Event agenda
SCHEDULE
More Than A Weekend Seminar
Kickoff
Day 1 : Welcom
9.00 am - 10.00 am
Door opening & registration
give yourself time to check in at the registration table, pick up your badge, and get settled. The hour before we kick off is a great opportunity to meet the presenters and connect with other attendees
10.00 am - 11.30 am
DRAWING WITH INTENTION
hands-on drawing seminar that helps you uncover what makes your style yours. Through symbolism, word-image association, and personal codex exercises, you'll create work rooted in meaning not just aesthetics.
CARRIE SOUTH
Presenter
11.40 am - 12.40 pm
Drawing Studies & the Art-First Approach
A hands-on demonstration breaking down dynamic facial expressions, gestures, and foundational studies that strengthen technique and visual understanding.
David Wilso
Presenter
12.40 pm - 1.40 pm
lunch
A full hour to eat, decompress, and keep the conversation going with the people around you
1.40 am - 4.10 pm
Hands-On 3RL Workshop
A hands on tattooing workshop attendees will tattoo alongside jon while he demonstrates 3rl technique, breaks down his approach, and answers questions in real time.
Jon Nelson
Presenter
4.30 pm - 5.50 pm
Crafting The Client Experience
A seminar focused on transforming the tattoo experience beyond the tattoo itself. Xavier Ayers breaks down the systems, communication, and personal standards that help create stronger client relationships, long-term loyalty, and a reputation people remember for the right reasons..
Xavier Ayers
Presenter
7.30 pm - ?
Mixer
Day 1 Mixer
Day one is done — now the real talk starts. Join presenters and attendees for drinks and conversation. No agenda, no schedule, just the people you spent the day learning with.
Day Two
Back At it
10.00 am - 11.30 am
Built to Last
An interactive drawing seminar breaking down how to create tattoos with strong composition, readability, and long-term impact. Through a live ornamental hand design demonstration, attendees will draw alongside BLACKCASKET while learning how placement, anatomy, contrast, and flow work together to create tattoos that hold up over time.
Tyler Pawelzik
Presenter
11.40 am - 1.10 pm
Finding Your Voice & Dynamic designs
A hands-on drawing workshop focused on designing dynamic repeating patterns helping artists better understand flow, rhythm, and negative space while creating imagery that strengthens tattoo compositions, prints, merchandise, and creative work beyond tattooing..
Heather Lynn
Presenter
1.10 pm - 2.10 pm
Lunch
A full hour. Some of the best conversations at Sessions happen over lunch
2.10 pm - 4.40 pm
Light, Color & Readability
A hands-on Tattoo Workshop. Attendees will tattoo along side cass using fake skin bridging fine art with tattooing. Cass focuses on strengthening your understanding of color theory, value, and flow. teaching you to create depth, contrast, and smooth color transitions while building stronger compositions that work for the body.
Cass Fuller
Presenter
4.50 pm - 5.50 pm
Sketch More, Draw Less
explores building stronger compositions from foundational principles, using traditional studies to develop your visual library, and creating work with movement, flow, and longevity. He'll also cover finding inspiration beyond tattooing, pulling from outside influences to bring fresh perspective and meaning into your work.
Joey Ortega
Presenter
5.50 pm - 6.30pm
Wrap up
Before the mixer kicks off, we're closing out Sessions .004 the right way. Stick around for giveaways, a few words from the Sessions team, and a proper send-off to two days well spent.
7.30 pm - ?
Mixer
The last session is wrapped and two days of work deserves a proper send-off. Come out, raise a glass, and close out Sessions .004 with the people who showed up.
We didn’t come to impress
we came to change
.004 is two days designed specifically to break that pattern.
Not theory. Actual work, with actual artists, in an actual room where something real happens.
The kind of thing you look back on and say , that's where things shifted.
We cant wait to see you in Austin!
SESSIONS
/
09.01 - 09.02
/
Palmers Event Center
/
Austin
Two-day access
In-depth workshops and seminars
Artist networking
Community hangouts
Live Q&A sessions
Merch galore
Sessions app access
Reference materials and take-home resources
Mild emotional breakthroughs and caffeine dependency
SESSIONS
/
09.01 - 09.02
/
Austin
Days
02
Presenters
8
55 : 1 : 8 : 26
One of the best parts of Sessions has always been the people in the room.
Every year, we bring together dynamic presenters, guest hosts, and artists we genuinely respect to share their experiences, perspectives, and the things they’ve learned through years of doing the work.
Hosts, Presenters & Instigators
The Instigators
Host
More Than Just A Weekend Seminar
The Instigators
Host
More Than Just A Weekend Seminar
SCHEDULE
dAY ONE
.09 .01
9.00 am - 10.00 am
Door opening & registration
give yourself time to check in at the registration table, pick up your badge, and get settled. The hour before we kick off is a great opportunity to meet the presenters and connect with other attendees
Jonathan penchoff
host
squire strahan
chief stress absorber
10.00 am - 11.30 am
DRAWING WITH INTENTION
hands-on drawing seminar that helps you uncover what makes your style yours. Through symbolism, word-image association, and personal codex exercises, you'll create work rooted in meaning not just aesthetics.
carrie south
presenter
11.40 am - 12.40 pm
Drawing Studies & the Art-First Approach
A hands-on demonstration breaking down dynamic facial expressions, gestures, and foundational studies that strengthen technique and visual understanding.
David Wilso
presenter
12.40 pm - 1.40 pm
lunch
A full hour to eat, decompress, and keep the conversation going with the people around you
1.40 am - 4.10 pm
Hands-On 3RL Workshop
a hands on tattooing workshop attendees will tattoo alongside jon while he demonstrates 3rl technique, breaks down his approach, and answers questions in real time.
jon nelson
presenter
4.30 pm - 5.50 pm
Crafting The Client Experience
A seminar focused on transforming the tattoo experience beyond the tattoo itself. Xavier Ayers breaks down the systems, communication, and personal standards that help create stronger client relationships, long-term loyalty, and a reputation people remember for the right reasons.
Xavier Ayers
presenter
7.30 pm - ?
mixer
Day 1 Mixer
Day one is done — now the real talk starts. Join presenters and attendees for drinks and conversation. No agenda, no schedule, just the people you spent the day learning with.
DAY TWO
.09 .02
10.00 am - 11.30 am
Built to Last
An interactive drawing seminar breaking down how to create tattoos with strong composition, readability, and long-term impact. Through a live ornamental hand design demonstration, attendees will draw alongside BLACKCASKET while learning how placement, anatomy, contrast, and flow work together to create tattoos that hold up over time.
Tyler Pawelzik
presenter
10.00 am - 11.30 am
finding Your Voice & Dynamic designs
a hands-on drawing workshop focused on designing dynamic repeating patterns helping artists better understand flow, rhythm, and negative space while creating imagery that strengthens tattoo compositions, prints, merchandise, and creative work beyond tattooing.
Heather Lynn
presenter
1.10 pm - 2.10 pm
lunch
A full hour. Some of the best conversations at Sessions happen over lunch
2.10 pm - 4.40 pm
LIGHT, COLOR & READABILITY
A hands-on colored pencil workshop bridging fine art with tattooing. Cass focuses on strengthening your understanding of color theory, value, and flow. teaching you to create depth, contrast, and smooth color transitions while building stronger compositions that work for the body.
CASS FULLER
presenter
4.50 pm - 5.50 pm
Sketch More, Draw Less
explores building stronger compositions from foundational principles, using traditional studies to develop your visual library, and creating work with movement, flow, and longevity. He'll also cover finding inspiration beyond tattooing, pulling from outside influences to bring fresh perspective and meaning into your wor
Joey Ortega
presenter
5.50 pm - 6.30pm
wrap up
Before the mixer kicks off, we're closing out Sessions .004 the right way. Stick around for giveaways, a few words from the Sessions team, and a proper send-off to two days well spent.
7.30 pm - ?
mixer
The last session is wrapped and two days of work deserves a proper send-off. Come out, raise a glass, and close out Sessions .004 with the people who showed up.
DAY TWO
.09 .02
10.00 am - 11.30 am
Built to Last
An interactive drawing seminar breaking down how to create tattoos with strong composition, readability, and long-term impact. Through a live ornamental hand design demonstration, attendees will draw alongside BLACKCASKET while learning how placement, anatomy, contrast, and flow work together to create tattoos that hold up over time.
Tyler Pawelzik
presenter
10.00 am - 11.30 am
finding Your Voice & Dynamic designs
a hands-on drawing workshop focused on designing dynamic repeating patterns helping artists better understand flow, rhythm, and negative space while creating imagery that strengthens tattoo compositions, prints, merchandise, and creative work beyond tattooing.
Heather Lynn
presenter
1.10 pm - 2.10 pm
lunch
A full hour. Some of the best conversations at Sessions happen over lunch
2.10 pm - 4.40 pm
LIGHT, COLOR & READABILITY
A hands-on Tattoo Workshop. Attendees will tattoo along side cass using fake skin bridging fine art with tattooing. Cass focuses on strengthening your understanding of color theory, value, and flow. teaching you to create depth, contrast, and smooth color transitions while building stronger compositions that work for the body.
CASS FULLER
presenter
4.50 pm - 5.50 pm
Sketch More, Draw Less
explores building stronger compositions from foundational principles, using traditional studies to develop your visual library, and creating work with movement, flow, and longevity. He'll also cover finding inspiration beyond tattooing, pulling from outside influences to bring fresh perspective and meaning into your wor
Joey Ortega
presenter
5.50 pm - 6.30pm
wrap up
Before the mixer kicks off, we're closing out Sessions .004 the right way. Stick around for giveaways, a few words from the Sessions team, and a proper send-off to two days well spent.
7.30 pm - ?
mixer
The last session is wrapped and two days of work deserves a proper send-off. Come out, raise a glass, and close out Sessions .004 with the people who showed up.
PALMERS EVENT
CENTER
Where
900 Barton Springs Rd, Austin, TX 78704
PALMERS
EVENT
CENTER
PALMERS
EVENT
CENTER
900 Barton Springs Rd, Austin, TX 78704
Where
but wait, theres more!
We're proud to support tattooer-run businesses that genuinely care about this industry and the people in it.
Huge shout out to Cream Tattoo Supply, a presenting partner of Sessions .004, for continuing to support artists, education, and the tattoo community.
Cream is also giving away an all-expenses-paid trip to Sessions .004, including your ticket, flight, and hotel. Every ticket purchased before July 1 is automatically entered to win.
Just our way, alongside Cream Tattoo Supply and the other partners helping support Sessions, of giving back to the people helping build this industry.
We're proud to support tattooer-run businesses that genuinely care about this industry and the people in it.
Huge love to Cream Tattoo Supply, a presenting partner of Sessions .004, for continuing to support artists, education, and the tattoo community.
Cream is also giving away an all-expenses-paid trip to Sessions .004, including your ticket, flight, and hotel. Every ticket purchased before July 1 is automatically entered to win.
Just our way, alongside Cream Tattoo Supply and the other partners helping support Sessions, of giving back to the people helping build this industry.
We didn’t come to impress
we came to change
.004 is two days designed specifically to break that pattern.
Not theory. Actual work, with actual artists, in an actual room where something real happens.
The kind of thing you look back on and say , that's where things shifted.
We cant wait to see you in Austin!
We didn’t come to impress
we came to change
SESSIONS
/
09.01 - 09.02
/
Palmers Event Center
/
Austin
Two-day access
In-depth workshops and seminars
Artist networking
Community hangouts
Live Q&A sessions
Merch galore
Sessions app access
Reference materials and take-home resources
Mild emotional breakthroughs and caffeine dependency
SESSIONS
/
09.01 - 09.02
/
Austin
Days
02
Presenters
8
We didn’t come to impress
we came to change
.004 is two days designed specifically to break that pattern.
Not theory. Actual work, with actual artists, in an actual room where something real happens.
The kind of thing you look back on and say , that's where things shifted.
We cant wait to see you in Austin!
we want to see you succeed
55 : 1 : 8 : 26