Print Artifacts on Skin: The Tattoo Art of Xoïl
French artist Xoïl (who also goes by Loïc) creates surreal, hyper-detailed tattoos that evoke collage, typography, and stencil art. Xoïl’s tattoos assemble the artifacts of print into tight, chaotic compositions that include torn paper textures, moire patterns, dot-matrix designs, chicken scratch, watercolor washes, dripping ink, bleeding markers and accidental-looking smudges of paint. These permanent “imperfections” are striking to behold.
File this under: “tattoo artists that make one want to buy plane tickets” (previously in this category: Guy le Tattooer)
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July 17th, 2012 at 8:58 pm
I have been looking for my dream tattoo artist to make my first Davinci sketch-esque piece come true….and if this isn’t the guy, I don’t know who is. I think I may literally have to buy a plane ticket.
July 18th, 2012 at 10:34 am
Simply lovely.
July 22nd, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Such an awesome style! Tattoo art has come such a long way, it blows my mind.
August 17th, 2012 at 3:36 am
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