Petra Hlaváčková works in both fine art and body art, bringing her captivating watercolor style to both realms. Petra’s tattoos feature bold, lively lines filled with personality and poise, a design aspect that defines her work and makes her tattoos recognisable. Symbols of nature, religion, human inventiveness and emotions make up the central subjects of […]
This video shows how two tattoo artists from the Borneo Headhunter Tattoo studio in East Malaysia work together to create a traditional Iban tattoo. The tattoo artist uses two sticks, one with a needle attached to the end, the other a plain piece of wood. After dipping the needle in ink, the artist uses the […]
Ondřej Konupčík, aka Ondrash, is a tattoo artist from the Czech republic with an exceptionally artistic style. Ondrash starts with paper and paint, creating a watercolor painting based on his client’s wants. He then recreates the painting on skin, artistically rendering the painting on living flesh with a tattoo machine. The result is a colorful, […]
Esther and Stephanie from Butterfat Studios in Chicago, USA, are producing the loveliest feminine tattoos. While subjects like flowers and birds are generally expected in feminine tattoos, the ladies at Butterfat studios have taken female symbolism a step further, including bountiful displays of fresh produce, forest creatures and insects as symbols of femininity, fertility and […]
While this intriguing tattoo may look like a cross-section of some biological thingummy, it’s actually a visual map of a mathematical formula’s performance. In less huffy terms, it’s a fractal. This fractal tattoo creates balance between chaos and order because it was spawned by the coupling of a Julia set and a Sierpinski carpet. [source] […]
This tattoo video shows Ferank Manseed skilfully creating a hand poked tattoo with a single needle. He created the design himself around a symbol called a Hunab Ku. This symbol is a tricky one to decipher, because some scholars claim that the symbol was used by Mayans before the arrival of Europeans, while others believe […]
Humanoid, mechanical men have been popular for centuries. Even in ancient tales and myths, there are stories of inanimate statues that come to life and act upon the orders of their living, human masters. In the 20th century, the literary realm of science fiction was popularized and the mechanical and electrical robots that we know […]
Mikhail Kolesnikov, aka Mike Amanita, is a tattoo artist from St Petersburg, Russia, who specializes in black ink esoteric tattoos. Featuring mandalas, sacred geometry, optical illusions and elements from nature, Amanita manages to express the ideal that there is more to the world than meets the eye. Amanita is a master of visual textures and […]
This poignant tattoo of a character from the popular 90s animation La Linea was spotted on a wheelchair-bound party goer at an Ozora festival. His tattoo shows one of the legless characters that Italian cartoonist Osvaldo Cavadoli made famous in his single-line animations, and is a fun reminder to always look on the bright side of […]
While a full bodysuit of tattoos is impressive, Glowrious Geroge is really a sight to behold, under both regular light and blacklight. Glowrious wears both a regular full bodysuit of tattoos as well as a UV tattoo bodysuit, which makes him the only person in the world to wear two tattoo bodysuits. Glowrious George is […]