Art

May 27, 2016

Intricately Intertwining Snake Tattoos Using Black and White Ink

Artist Mirko Sata inks his entwined snake tattoos with dazzling intricacy, contorting the illustrated serpents into slithering twists and slippery knots that seem to pop from clients' skin. The reptiles' scales are rendered with texture that appears almost tangible through Sata's interchanging use of black and white pigments, with the white appearing almost illustrious, glimmering around the geometric edges of the coiled creatures and glinting from fanged faces.

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May 21, 2016

Tattooist Fuses Contemporary Freehand Techniques with Traditional Japanese Themes

Tattoo artist Gakkin produces delicate works on skin that are designed with a freehand approach. Opting to draw directly onto his client's body before tattooing an image, the Japanese artist forgoes a stencil and tailors each design to the specific person—other artists, in contrast, would create something beforehand, show it to their client, and then use transfer paper to place it on the skin.

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May 17, 2016

Artist’s Incredible Hand-Painted Clay Sculptures Look Like Whimsical Illustrations

Madrid-based artist Irma Gruenholz creates her evocative three-dimensional “illustrations” using clay and plasticine. She sculpts the materials into soft-edged human renderings and then hand-paints them in whimsical color schemes, designing entrancing dioramas that invite imaginative interpretations from viewers. The scenes are at once relatable and dreamlike, seemingly paused in the delicate space between dreams and everyday life.

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