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Michael Palmer

Johannesburg, South Africa

BIG MIKE TATTOOS 🖋️ Black & Grey Realism Dm to book or WhatsApp 066 478 4176 JHB | ONTDEKKERS ROAD | FLORIDA

Black and grey realism tattoo artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Specializes in custom large-scale projects and sleeve work with a focus on deliberate, high-quality artistic execution.

Recent Work

THE SANTA MARIA PROJECT

I’m opening up this custom large scale black and grey realism sleeve to ONE DEDICATED CLIENT.

A complete artistic project, dHOW TO BOOK YOUR TATTOO WITH ME,
consultation, custom design, deposit 

WHO AM I?
I’m Mike, a Johannesburg based tattoo artist, specialising in black A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MY APPROACH 

If you’re booking with me, understand this, IM NOT GOING TO RUSH THE PROCESS, and I don’t work around unrealistic tim💥COME FETCH YOUR SUMMER BODY💥

Forget the gym lol WHATS THE TATTOO PLAN??!
Summer is here guys and that sleeve isn’t going to happen by itself 😅

WWork in progress!

Really happy with the outcome on this project so far on my good friend shaheed, he is one of my longest standing clients, now well Half sleeve project for Cleo👌🏽

Really happy with how this is coming along, we’ll check back in after a few weeks for some tweaking here and there i

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