PampaTattoo

The feedSend me your idea

A tattoo artist mid-line, machine in hand, working on a client's arm in a glass-walled studio.

Fine line · Lettering

Fine lane tattoos, drawn around the idea you bring me to????

Lettering, ornamental work and black-and-grey detail — from a first small piece to a whole back. Valencia, and whichever city the chair is in this month.

Send me your idea

Selected work

Ornamental, lettering, fine line

Every piece here was drawn for the one person wearing it.

The word Blooming in tall fine script, running down the inside of a forearm.
An eagle in flight with its wings spread across a shoulder.
An ornamental flower in thin lines, spread across a shoulder blade.
A single eye in soft grey shading on the back of an arm.
Two crossed swords and small lettering across the back of a hand.
A fine-line mandala with a flower at its centre, on an upper arm.
A snake wound around a dagger blade, shaded in grey across a back.
A small winged figure with fine ornaments scattered along a forearm.
Two snakes coiled around a dagger, filling a whole back in black and grey.
A winged figure holding a sword, drawn along the inside of an upper arm.
A thin trailing branch running the length of a forearm.
A bearded face inside a drawn frame, etched on a forearm above a line of lettering.
A sleeve in progress: a lion, birds and fine geometric lines down an arm.
A small rose on a long stem inside a thin line frame, on a ribcage.
The wing of an eagle in grey wash, close up on a shoulder.

How a piece starts

The design is built out of what you bring me

Most pieces reach me as half an idea — a word someone has carried for years, a shape they saw once, a patch of skin they have been keeping free for it. I draw from that: the composition, the weight of the line, the size it has to be to still read in ten years, the way it sits when the arm moves. By the time the machine starts, the details and the proportions are yours. The rest is line work and the hours it takes.

Elegant lettering, made to last.

Gloved hands guiding a tattoo machine over a client's arm, a drawing of two swords on the table beside them.
A tattoo artist photographed in a studio mirror, machine and worktop behind.

The academy

I teach this from the first line

Some of the people who write to me do not want a tattoo — they want to learn to make one. So I teach, one to one, starting from nothing: how the machine is held, how deep a line wants to go, how a stencil becomes a piece, and hours on synthetic skin until the hand stops shaking. It ends with a first real tattoo, done by someone who arrived with no drawing behind them.

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Tell me what you want tattooed

The more you put in the message, the faster I can answer it properly: the idea, where on the body, roughly what size, and which city you are in.

A photograph of the spot helps more than a description of it.

Large script across a back reading she wants tattoos, not flowers.
More of the work

Questions

Before you write

Do you draw every tattoo from scratch?
Almost all of them. A piece usually starts from one person's idea and is drawn only for them — the composition, the size and the placement are settled together before anything is stencilled. Ready-made designs go up from time to time as well, for anyone who would rather choose than describe.
Where do you tattoo?
Valencia is home. Much of the year is spent as a guest artist in other cities: Germany, Vienna, Stockholm, Dubai, Los Angeles and Switzerland have all had a chair. If you are in one of them, say so when you write.
What styles do you work in?
Fine line before anything else: lettering and script, ornamental and etching work, and black-and-grey detail — small enough to sit behind an ear, or large enough to cover a back. Everything is black and grey.
Do fine lines hold up over the years?
Thin work asks for two things: the right depth when it goes in, and sun protection afterwards. Lettering and ornamental pieces are drawn at a weight meant to stay readable as they settle — and if an idea is too small or too fine for the place you want it, you will hear that before we start.
How do I book?
Send the idea, the placement, a rough size and the city you are in through the form on this page. The answer comes back with whatever else is needed to draw it, and a date is agreed from there.
Can I learn to tattoo with you?
Yes. The academy is taught one to one and starts from nothing — no drawing background needed. It covers the machine, the line and the depth, hours on synthetic skin, and it finishes with a first real tattoo. Ask about the next place through the form on this page.