Mountain ocean tree tattoo

30 Small Mountain Tattoo Designs to Inspire Your Next Ink – Refined Aesthetique

Minimal tattoo designs are usually far from simplistic - there’s lots of thinking to do to turn your idea into something stripped down yet still conveying the thought behind it! And that’s part of the beauty of minimal tattoos, don’t you agree?

See this Instagram photo by @nicoletowned Add the sun and maybe a cloud to get all 4 elements

Can you feel it? It’s that time of the year again. The time when you realize you absolutely need another tattoo. It’s addictive, we know. But what if this time you want something a little more intimate, even secret, something that is not immediately visible? We know exactly what you need! Behind-the-ear tattoos!

Mountain tattoo🏞

Vasif Daniel Kahraman, once a graphic designer and art director, nowadays works as a tattoo artist in İstanbul. In his childhood, with the help of his aunt who introduced him to drawing, he discovered that he may transform the violence and neglect he encountered at home into different realities. His artistic journey that started as redrawing cartoon characters later advanced into creating his own original stories and characters.

Adding one and one doesn't always equal two. Sometimes the thing becomes less than two, and other times it is much more than just two. In other words, sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The latter case is true to Hakan Adik, who adds motifs of famous paintings and popular characters to create his own unique style of tattoos.

A piece entitled 'Balance' with a winter / summer Yin-Yang symbol. Tattoo by Thomas Eckeard, an artist based in Arcadia, California, USA.