20+ Watercolor Tattoos: The New Standard Overtaking Classic Black and White Ink

The new gold standard in the tattoo industry is watercolor ink, so forget about black and white designs.Brazilian tattoo artist Robson Carvalho is a talented individual from São Paulo.

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Robson Carvalho hails from Sao Paulo in Brazil. His graphical style is described by a wide range of adjectives and adverbs, such as scrappy, free, watercolor-enlivened, and pastel-like. His tattoos look like they came right out of one of his sketchbooks, and for the most part, they did. Carvalho’s tattoos perfectly encapsulate that free-form pen style. His proficiency implies that he traced a sketch with a pen and brush instead of utilizing a tattoo machine. The work’s immaculate quality is a result of its imperfections: some colors and lines fade, and some ink splatters as though the pen nib fell.