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Animals, Illusions and Dot work Tattoos by Gregorio Marangoni

Gregorio Marangoni is a tattoo artist based in São Paulo, Brazil. Working only in black tattoo ink, Marangoni creates tattoos that have intricate details and lots of texture. To create the textures and details, Marangoni uses a combination of line work and dot work, using smooth lines to create and then shading and texturing the outlined shapes with hundreds of tiny dots. This tattoo design style is becoming more and more popular because it has the boldness of traditional tattoos while being an entirely modern style. In fine art, creating a painting out of thousands of tiny dots is called Pointillism.

Marangoni’s attractive tattoos often have symbolic or totem animals in them as subjects. Deer, birds, beetles and big cats all find a symbolic place in Marangoni’s tattoo art. Another design element that often appears in Gregorio Marangoni’s tattoo designs is an optical illusion; geometric shapes and patterns that can be seen in more than one way. One of his favorite techniques is to create an area filled with cubes that seem to either have a small block cut out of each cube or alternatively, a small block resting in the corner where the cube join. Marangoni adds a spiritual essence to his tattoo art by using mandala designs. Sometime the mandala is used as part of another subject in the tattoo, and sometimes smaller subjects such as beetles are used to create the mandala design. Combining animals and mandalas in a dot work style can also be seen in the tattoo art of David Hale here and here.

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A lion, mandala and impossible object illusions combine in this pointillism tattoo by Gregorio Marangoni


Gregorio Marangoni uses mandala flowers and thousands of dots to create this tree of life tattoo design


A beetle and optical illusion cubes feature in this dot work tattoo by Gregorio Marangoni


Beetles converge to create a madala flower in this dotwork tattoo design by Gregorio Marangoni


A crow caws at the heart of a mandala flower in this dot work tattoo by Gregorio Marangoni


A deer with six eyes projects an image of an impossible object illusion in this dotwork tattoo by Gregorio Marangoni


A dot work tattoo of a dinosaur skull by Gregorio Marangoni


An eye peeks out of the heart of a flower in this dot work tattoo by Gregorio Marangoni


Gregorio Marangoni creates an optical illusion tattoo out of thousands of tiny dots


Gregorio Marangoni gives this human skull tattoo an interesting texture by using thousands of tiny dots


Gregorio Marangoni gives this traditional Japanese dragon a new look with dotwork textures


Gregorio Marangoni uses lines and tiny dots to create this beautiful mandala flower tattoo


Thousands of dots make up this optical illusion tattoo design by Gregorio Marangoni


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April 3, 2013 Catherine Nessworthy Mayhem & Muse

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