SamBlack & Gray Realism & Portraiture Tattoo Artist in Los Angeles

Sam works in sculptural, mythological black and grey — Heracles wrestling Cerberus, Medusa with living snakes, a stitched face holding an eye in its palm. Anatomy is treated like carved stone, and his signature is solid black negative space: large flat black shapes frame the realism and give each piece a hard silhouette on the skin.

He also works with religious motifs and script — clasped hands with a rosary and a dove, scripture lettering down the forearm.

Best suited to: mythology, dark portraiture, forearm and calf pieces with strong contrast.