Daisy Watson sort of stumbled into the art of tattoo making after her friends taught her how to use a tattoo machine. Realizing her simple, minimalist drawings would translate perfectly into tattoos, Watson took it from there, mastering her craft by tattooing her legs.
“I wear many tattoos myself. Mostly on my legs, because that’s when I started practicing before tattooing other people,” she shared in an interview in German with femtastics. “I do not wear tattoos on my arms or other obvious spots, as you can see. So I’m not the classic tattoo artist cliché. My grandmother knows nothing about my tattoos,” she added.
Inspired by Picasso’s inked portraits, Cocteau’s line drawings, and Jean Arp’s use of organic shapes, the Berlin-based tattoo artist uses thin black lines to create minimal surrealist works. “My drawings are never too serious or boring,” she stressed. “At least I hope so. I would call my style surrealistic.”
“I like to paint vases or hands. Basically, I try to combine different, mostly contradictory things in one picture. That result is always exciting. But faces are my absolute favorite motif,” she added. Whatever her creations are, they always maintain and an element of the absurd.
Take a look for yourself.
