8 instagrams with minimalistic tattoos
margarita virova
Fashion exists in the tattoo world. Time-consuming drawings, watercolors and complex graphics are replaced by pictures that are minimal in all respects: not only from the point of aesthetics, but also from the point of view of care. We show eight tattoo artists who give a master class on concise tattoo.
Jonboy
New York master, to which Justin Bieber, Chloe Moretz and Kylie Jenner are looking, is a real local celebrity: large and independent brands cooperate with him, and in his instagram almost 450 thousand subscribers. His corporate style is tiny, barely noticeable tattoo-inscriptions or tiny drawings of abstract lines, made so strictly and neatly that the small size does not prevent them from being self-sufficient ornaments.
Doctor woo
One of the masters of the Hollywood Salon Shamrock Social Club regularly appears in the selections of the best American tattoo artists, and this is not surprising: he is a high-class specialist in realistic tattoos. His work can be assessed by looking at photographs of Drake, Miley Cyrus, Emilia Clark and a dozen other famous artists. You can recognize Brian Wu's hand from the characteristic "translucent" drawings, made with great attention to the shadows and contours, with which he works perfectly even at the microscale.
Miso
Ukrainian Stanislav Pinchuk, who works in two cities - Melbourne and Tokyo - is actually an artist with a solid client portfolio and a true master of texture. She literally punctures her work with needles on the canvas, which, of course, is very similar to tattoo technology. The tattoo, however, is more of a hobby for her: most often she makes small drawings on the bodies of her friends and acquaintances. The most recognizable ones are small constellations, circles and arrows assembled from dots: the artist does not work according to other people's sketches and all her tattoos are unique.
Bang bang
Under the playful pseudonym Bang Bang, tattoo artist Keith MacCurdy, another favorite of a crowd of celebrities - for example, Rihanna and Cara Delevingne (the inscription "Bacon ..." on the model's foot - his work) is hiding. He is famous for the fact that he works in a thousand different styles: he is on the shoulder and watercolor flowers, and complex graphics, and canonical wolves in the back. The level of skill can be assessed on the most minimalist examples: for example, phrases and inscriptions look literally printed on the skin.
Seoeon
Korean master So It is based in Seoul despite the fact that tattoos are still not very popular there - largely because it is legal for them to be practiced only by certified doctors. Among the fun, naive and cute works of the tattoo artist there is not one whose size would exceed the parameters of a cigarette pack, but they look, nonetheless, surprising: even in the tiniest, the master can use a lot of pure and bright colors, which sometimes can not be seen in huge "painting".
Horu
Another Korean master who specializes in popular small tattoos: especially in her performance touch images of different animals. Among the software, but with a taste of made seals and unicorns, you can even find a hedgehog who is scratching his belly, take a look at these works if your preferences lie in the area of light and ironic pictures.
Cate webb
The owner of her own Black Cat Tattoo salon located in Canada, by her own admission, draws inspiration from the work of Aubrey Beardsley and Egon Schiele. With the help of her tattoos, Kate Webb convincingly proves that color is not necessary for expression and expressiveness, but the irony and sense of composition will be useful. Images of any degree of conditionality are subject to clear and clean lines, so that in the artist's portfolio there will be both conventional flowers, and ominous cats, and ommajas to their favorite artists.
Johnny gloom
A master from Paris has been tattooing for a very short time, about three years, but she has her own style. She calls the sources of inspiration "the dark universe" and works in the traditional technique of blackwork, but at the same time her drawings are the plot: the results look as if made with a stencil. Especially her clients love to order roses, completely filled with black color, but this is only the tip of the iceberg: other works are relieved from excessive drama due to a healthy share of irony and black humor.