“I mainly draw my inspiration from my own experiences, beliefs, and development throughout my career,” she adds. “The objects I chose to draw are everyday objects but with a slight stylistic or simplistic differences, making them eternal in a way as they never really go ‘out of fashion’ or become unpopular.”

Indeed, her work makes for an interesting fashion statement, drawing quite a massive fanbase (on Instagram alone she has amassed more than 210k followers). But when it comes to her career path, her road was a meandering one – having first gained attention on Tumblr, where she would post photos of her illustrations and tattoos.

“From the positive feedback it got from everyone I started taking appointments and working from my home and studio spaces,” she recalled. “There’s a certain normalized order within the tattoo industry where you gotta first do an apprenticeship, learn all the different styles and then you get the chair and get to develop your own individual style. But this was different to me as I didn’t do an apprenticeship so my style simply developed from the beginning through my own inspiration, meaning rather than everyone walking around with the same designs, people get new and interesting designs, rather than just going to a standard studio, picking a design from the portfolio and ending up leaving with the ‘H & M of tattoos.’”

Check out some of her original designs in the gallery below:

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“I’ve never wanted recognition,” she remarked once, in an interview with Amadeus, “which is why tattooing is great because it’s for someone else.” Born in Marin and raised in San Mateo, Kartomten now lives in Echo Park. She began experimenting with “home-made” tattoo art in her early twenties, and after spending a few years hand-poking at Sang Bleu London, she moved to Los Angeles where she continues to pioneer in making stick and poke tattoos a respected art form.

According to Kartomten, she gave and received her first tattoo when she and her friend hand-poked each other’s fingers. “I started with friends at home in San Francisco,” she recalled. “We wanted to do it then and there, and I had sewing needles and India ink. I became a professional over a long period of time.”

A self-taught tattoo artist through and through, she notes that most of her early clients had never heard of her chosen technique – an ancient form of body art that involves using a sharp point and some ink – but they gave her a chance and liked the results. “I always liked that it’s a lowbrow art form,” she says.

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“A paper or a canvas or a skin, are the same, it’s just different material,” she reflected in an interview with Cortex. “I did my first tattoo on myself in high school with a needle and some random ink because I was in love with a stupid guy. Then I went to Nantes and met the best people, I was at school with Ivan he had a super scary tattoo machine, it took me a while before I tried, but once I started I followed him.”

Nowadays, she’s back to hand-poked tattooing, which doesn’t require a machine. The result is a lot more tangible – creating perfect imperfections, which is just the way she likes her art to be. With a background industrial design, Olk says she’s developed an interest in the more simple things in life, which are still able to evoke emotion. “I am very attracted to pop art, mid XXth century graphics and the Renaissance period,” she says. “It’s a long and slow journey, I am still researching and trying new techniques.”

Follow her creative journey on Instagram.

The post Johanna Olk’s Tattoos Are a Celebration of Womanhood appeared first on Wallpaper Data.

Maslov spent a good portion of her career as a freelance illustrator, doing a healthy amount of commissioned tattoo designs. This inspired her to transition to tattooing, and it ended up being a great decision.

She is now working in Melbourne’s Heretic Tattoo Studio, where clients line up just to have a piece of her art on their skin.

Check out some of Maslov’s powerful tattoo art below.

The post Tattoo Artist Creates Powerful Nature-Inspired Gothic Tattoos appeared first on Wallpaper Data.

“AstroFrecks is a fun technique I created to add a secret personal connection within faux freckle tattoos,” said the Michigan-based tattoo artist in an interview with the Zensa blog. “A client can use their own zodiac constellation, or their Moms, Dads, dogs… anyone they want. After I lay down the structured constellation, I then go back in and do random frecks in other areas, so the constellation is hidden in plain sight on their face. They know where it is, but someone on the street would never notice.”

The freckles themselves fade over time, and Knapik has different colored ink that can be used to match any skin tone. But not all constellations are drawn on the face. “I’ve done quite a few in the chest and shoulder area as well,” she says. “And it doesn’t have to be specifically zodiac constellations either, I’ve had clients do other constellations they love or feel a connection to.”

Check out some of her otherworldly tattoos in the gallery below.

The post Believe In Astrology? Why Not Incorporate it Into Your Body appeared first on Wallpaper Data.

The artist behind this unique project it Valeria Monis. Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, raised in Haifa, and living and working in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Monis has been creating her ceramic sets since graduating in 2015 from Holon Institute of Technology.

Each of her ceramic pieces is designed and crafted incorporating illustrations taken from photographs, personal stories, and the Soviet police prison files. And just like an original tattoo, each plate is a single edition. Now the only question left is: will you dare serve your tea with these sets?

Take a look!

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“Tattoo to me is the enhancement and adornment of what nature has already given us,” the LA-based artist said in an interview with Dazed & Confused. “It’s a talisman. Tattoo tells our personal narrative, and makes us feel empowered. Tattoo is also body armour, and then, in another way, tattoo also makes the wearer feel sexier and more attractive.”

“Tattoos have now evolved into a multi-dimensional art form, with styles that appeal to different tastes and sensibilities, from crude hand poke tattoos to heavy black, and everything in between. I also consider tattoo a sacred, cultural art steeped in the history of mankind. It tells the story of history and culture since the invention of fire. I see tattoo on a spectrum that has many facets. It can be so many things – art, ritual, primitive and modern.”

Check out her mesmerizing designs in the gallery below.

The post These Tattoos Are Officially Works of Art appeared first on Wallpaper Data.

“I mainly draw my inspiration from my own experiences, beliefs, and development throughout my career,” she adds. “The objects I chose to draw are everyday objects but with a slight stylistic or simplistic differences, making them eternal in a way as they never really go ‘out of fashion’ or become unpopular.”

Indeed, her work makes for an interesting fashion statement, drawing quite a massive fanbase (on Instagram alone she has amassed more than 210k followers). But when it comes to her career path, her road was a meandering one – having first gained attention on Tumblr, where she would post photos of her illustrations and tattoos.

“From the positive feedback it got from everyone I started taking appointments and working from my home and studio spaces,” she recalled. “There’s a certain normalized order within the tattoo industry where you gotta first do an apprenticeship, learn all the different styles and then you get the chair and get to develop your own individual style. But this was different to me as I didn’t do an apprenticeship so my style simply developed from the beginning through my own inspiration, meaning rather than everyone walking around with the same designs, people get new and interesting designs, rather than just going to a standard studio, picking a design from the portfolio and ending up leaving with the ‘H & M of tattoos.’”

Check out some of her original designs in the gallery below:

The post Daisy Watson’s Tattoos are Full of Spunk appeared first on Wallpaper Data.

“I’ve never wanted recognition,” she remarked once, in an interview with Amadeus, “which is why tattooing is great because it’s for someone else.” Born in Marin and raised in San Mateo, Kartomten now lives in Echo Park. She began experimenting with “home-made” tattoo art in her early twenties, and after spending a few years hand-poking at Sang Bleu London, she moved to Los Angeles where she continues to pioneer in making stick and poke tattoos a respected art form.

According to Kartomten, she gave and received her first tattoo when she and her friend hand-poked each other’s fingers. “I started with friends at home in San Francisco,” she recalled. “We wanted to do it then and there, and I had sewing needles and India ink. I became a professional over a long period of time.”

A self-taught tattoo artist through and through, she notes that most of her early clients had never heard of her chosen technique – an ancient form of body art that involves using a sharp point and some ink – but they gave her a chance and liked the results. “I always liked that it’s a lowbrow art form,” she says.

The post Tati Compton Might Inspire Your Next Tattoo appeared first on Wallpaper Data.

“A paper or a canvas or a skin, are the same, it’s just different material,” she reflected in an interview with Cortex. “I did my first tattoo on myself in high school with a needle and some random ink because I was in love with a stupid guy. Then I went to Nantes and met the best people, I was at school with Ivan he had a super scary tattoo machine, it took me a while before I tried, but once I started I followed him.”

Nowadays, she’s back to hand-poked tattooing, which doesn’t require a machine. The result is a lot more tangible – creating perfect imperfections, which is just the way she likes her art to be. With a background industrial design, Olk says she’s developed an interest in the more simple things in life, which are still able to evoke emotion. “I am very attracted to pop art, mid XXth century graphics and the Renaissance period,” she says. “It’s a long and slow journey, I am still researching and trying new techniques.”

Follow her creative journey on Instagram.

The post Johanna Olk’s Tattoos Are a Celebration of Womanhood appeared first on Wallpaper Data.

Maslov spent a good portion of her career as a freelance illustrator, doing a healthy amount of commissioned tattoo designs. This inspired her to transition to tattooing, and it ended up being a great decision.

She is now working in Melbourne’s Heretic Tattoo Studio, where clients line up just to have a piece of her art on their skin.

Check out some of Maslov’s powerful tattoo art below.

The post Tattoo Artist Creates Powerful Nature-Inspired Gothic Tattoos appeared first on Wallpaper Data.

“AstroFrecks is a fun technique I created to add a secret personal connection within faux freckle tattoos,” said the Michigan-based tattoo artist in an interview with the Zensa blog. “A client can use their own zodiac constellation, or their Moms, Dads, dogs… anyone they want. After I lay down the structured constellation, I then go back in and do random frecks in other areas, so the constellation is hidden in plain sight on their face. They know where it is, but someone on the street would never notice.”

The freckles themselves fade over time, and Knapik has different colored ink that can be used to match any skin tone. But not all constellations are drawn on the face. “I’ve done quite a few in the chest and shoulder area as well,” she says. “And it doesn’t have to be specifically zodiac constellations either, I’ve had clients do other constellations they love or feel a connection to.”

Check out some of her otherworldly tattoos in the gallery below.

The post Believe In Astrology? Why Not Incorporate it Into Your Body appeared first on Wallpaper Data.

The artist behind this unique project it Valeria Monis. Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, raised in Haifa, and living and working in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Monis has been creating her ceramic sets since graduating in 2015 from Holon Institute of Technology.

Each of her ceramic pieces is designed and crafted incorporating illustrations taken from photographs, personal stories, and the Soviet police prison files. And just like an original tattoo, each plate is a single edition. Now the only question left is: will you dare serve your tea with these sets?

Take a look!

The post Unique Tea Sets Combines Blue Porcelain With Criminal Tattoos appeared first on Wallpaper Data.

“Tattoo to me is the enhancement and adornment of what nature has already given us,” the LA-based artist said in an interview with Dazed & Confused. “It’s a talisman. Tattoo tells our personal narrative, and makes us feel empowered. Tattoo is also body armour, and then, in another way, tattoo also makes the wearer feel sexier and more attractive.”

“Tattoos have now evolved into a multi-dimensional art form, with styles that appeal to different tastes and sensibilities, from crude hand poke tattoos to heavy black, and everything in between. I also consider tattoo a sacred, cultural art steeped in the history of mankind. It tells the story of history and culture since the invention of fire. I see tattoo on a spectrum that has many facets. It can be so many things – art, ritual, primitive and modern.”

Check out her mesmerizing designs in the gallery below.

The post These Tattoos Are Officially Works of Art appeared first on Wallpaper Data.