Tattoo Life Magazine 146

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Alexey Mashkov, also known simply as “Mashkow” is enamoured of the cultural scene in New York and deeply attracted to anything that can be defined as art. Tattoos included, seeing as how he has invented a particular style of his own which unites the urban grit of graffiti, exquisite colour and the best of Realism.

We meet Melbourne-based Australian artist Harrison Daniel, starting out in Realism and black he added a touch of Norse mythology, Neo Traditional and Japanese until he reached what is now his powerful crossing point of styles.

Contrast from the essential colours black and red and dynamic like the Japanese manga: this is the work of Vietnamese tattooist Horituan who takes the characters and stories of Japanese tradition as the starting point for developing his pieces.

We go to Korea, to visit tattoo artist Pitta who gives to the classic art of his country a fresh twist mixing Korean tradition with western or modern elements. It is like that the traditional art of Dancheong meets the Buddhist art and Michelangelo…

See the Portfolio dedicated to the German photographer Max Blanke and his beautiful tattooed models, protagonists of his images and of his photo shoots.

We go in Bad Vilbel, a town outside Frankfurt (Germany) to visit Skull Tattoo, a collective currently made up of six artists coordinated by Fabian who opened the shop ten years ago together with Jorge, founding a hub of Realism where they specialise in cover ups and where there’s a major focus on the black of Maori and Polynesian tattoo.

Meet Poesis, the tattooist and poetic artist from Berlin who uses flowers to express thoughts and tattoo to breathe life into the dreams and stories of others.