Hello, my name is Tom Cross. Welcome to my web site. With some greatly appreciated help by a couple of nephews, some of my work has been online for sometime. It has finally occurred to me that I should give you, the viewer, a chance to understand what I have been working on. This artwork spans over a 30-year period. There are many not documented pictures on the web site and four stolen pictures. However, certainly there is enough here for you to see the joy ride I have been on.

My hopes are that you will have a sense of my personality and history by the time you finish this tour.

I have been enhancing and annoying peoples lives both audibly, pictorially, and dermagraphically since my birth in 1950. On that day, January 19, 1950 the spirits tattooed me inside and out, sold me to the Cross Circus, and the traveling show began. We traveled from Oregon to Maine and all the stops in between. The Ring Master and his Cosmistress have retired to Maine. My family and I set up a tattoo studio, Smokey Banana. I paint in my studio at home. Enough of this----ON WITH THE SHOW.

Tom Cross