Built for
one body
Reproducing an image on skin is the easy part. What takes years is making it sit on your anatomy, hold its contrast, and still read a decade from now.
No project starts
at the needle
My work goes past putting an image on skin. Every project is developed on its own terms, weighing your story, your anatomy, the composition, the technique and how the piece will age.
Black and grey realism is where that method lives. With no colour to lean on, everything is carried by value: the depth of the blacks, the length of the grey transitions, the texture of skin, metal or fur. Get those right and the piece reads from across the room and still holds a decade from now. That is the standard every step below exists to protect.
Consultation & story
Before anything is drawn we sit down for a meeting dedicated to the project alone. Your story, what the tattoo means, your references, the elements you want in it, size and placement, and above all the result you are hoping for. This conversation matters because the goal was never to copy a reference. It is to turn your idea into a composition that exists once.
A second chance
for your skin
Covering an old tattoo takes far more than putting something bigger or darker on top. It takes reading pigment, contrast, saturation, depth, composition, anatomy and how the ink already in the skin will behave. Every cover-up is its own technical problem.
Reading what is already there
The first step is studying the existing piece: old pigment, how deep and how intense it sits, size, scarring, the colours in it, the anatomy of the area, the space available, and which directions genuinely work for that case. I will not promise a cover-up before I understand the situation.
Selected work
Realism, portraits and fine line, all in black and grey. Each piece was designed for the person wearing it.
Realism
Portrait
Fine Line
Realism
Realism
Portrait
Realism
Fine Line
RealismWatch the
work happen
Process, healed results and cover-ups in motion, straight from the studio.
Judged by
other artists
Black and grey is a small world, and the people who judge it are other tattooers. The work has taken first place in portrait and second in realism, and been awarded in more than one country. That is not the reason to book me. It is just evidence that the method holds up outside my own studio.
The questions
that come up
There is no price list, because there is no standard piece. Cost follows size, placement, detail and how many sessions the design needs. Send your idea through the form with a reference and the area you want it on, and you get a real quote rather than a range.
Tell me what
you have in mind
Send the idea, the placement and a reference. I read every enquiry myself and come back with an honest read on what is possible and what it will cost.