From a crow perched on a ribcage to Mia (Uma Thurman) sipping her $5 milkshake, it is hard to not look at Benjamin Laukis’s realistic tattoo designs. His clients get on the waiting list at Pure Vision Tattoo in Melbourne, Australia, because he is that good in black and grey, and also with subtle colored […]

Karolina Czaja is acclaimed for her dotwork, and although she tattoos with a modern machine, she is best known for applying a traditional technique of hand-tapping the ink with bamboo sticks taped together with a needle. Her designs are based on indigenous art from the Philippines, Samoa and beyond. Photos © Karolina Czaja Via RISE

Lace is a timeless fashion accessory. And for tattoos, “timeless” is the ideal. A symbol of wealth and prestige for centuries, lace is soft, intricate, delicate. It began as a way to separate the classes, and today still holds an air of elegance. Modern tattooers are now adorning their clients with unique, ornamental artwork. It’s […]

Having recently featured Javier Rodriguez’s tattoos, here is another great artist (Cisco) from the LTW studio in Spain. The latter artist is not only a tattooer but also a well-known graffiti artist, whose artistic style is a mix of old-era imagery with colorful cartoons. You can see a bit of that crossed over to his […]

Although Kamil Czapiga’s tattoos were recently featured at Illusion, the artist keeps pumping out new work and it is all fantastic! It is difficult to ignore his latest work which is so diverse in terms of themes, but consistently inked with his dot and line techniques. From a brain and spine swaying down a client’s […]