surrealism tattoo artists
in los angeles
dreamlike, impossible, and strange in the best way — melting forms, double meanings, and compositions that bend reality. for ideas that don't fit any other box.
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sandra price
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Surrealist black and grey dragonfly whose four wings each hold a realistic human eye.
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jian liang
Medusa rendered in soft black and grey, her snake-crowned face layered into a sharp collage of geometric lines, blocks and dotwork on the thigh.
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otaybeatdown
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shelby bianco
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vince espinoza
A diamond-framed sci-fi scene of UFOs beaming a figure up over a burning town, shaded with fine dotwork clouds.
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josue bravo
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zealous
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samantha wilks
A surreal deep-space scene across the chest with Saturn, drifting planets, a spiral galaxy and a tiny astronaut floating on a tether.
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hannah
An elongated hand rises from a melting base with an open eye set in its palm and drops falling from the fingers, in clean surrealist linework.
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humilde tattoos
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nj tattooz
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tyler_whitlock
A woman's face emerges from tangled, thorn-like linework studded with four-point stars in this surreal blackwork forearm piece.
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emily
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ashynucklestattoo
A cracked skull dissolves into smoke as a dark insect emerges, with a tiny figure below — moody, painterly black and grey on the shoulder.
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dretty
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zitronxus
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travis ross
Surreal black and grey thigh piece of a woman whose eyes are wrapped in clouds, a single eye gazing out as raindrops fall.
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mr._folks
A snake winds over a fractured, statue-like face that dissolves into ornamental scrollwork, with 'Devin' scripted at the wrist.
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tag devilish
A surreal knot of interwoven ribbons lined with eyes spirals around its center, punctuated by bright red flame accents on the calf.
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vladimir kozachenko
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inkedby_g
A shaded veiled woman sits inside a fine-line alchemical circle, with moon phases, binary code and an all-seeing eye woven through the surrounding arm.
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chiu ray
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about surrealism tattooing in los angeles
surrealist tattooing takes recognizable things and puts them together in ways that shouldn't work — melting forms, objects becoming other objects, impossible perspective, double meanings that only land on the second look. it draws directly on the surrealist painters, and the good work has the same quality they did: rendered convincingly enough that the impossible part sneaks up on you.
this is the most collaborative style on the list. a surrealist piece isn't really a subject, it's an idea, and the artist's job is finding the image that carries it — so the process usually starts with a conversation rather than a reference photo. it also needs serious rendering ability underneath the concept, since the illusion only works if the individual elements read as solid and real. for both reasons, this work tends to want size and a longer design phase than a straightforward subject piece.
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