Makkala Rose is a New Zealand-based tattoo artist who specializes in tattoos inspired by flora and fauna. Rose creates highly detailed and colorful tattoos that contain flowers, fruit, animals, and other botanical and natural elements.
Rose’s skills were especially showcased in one of her recent tattoo works when she covered the client’s entire back with an elaborate tattoo that contained all the elements of her recognizable style. The outcome was truly stunning as the tattoo ended up resembling the work of a classical painter.
Rose’s painting-like tattoos aren’t a surprise when you know her first passion was painting.
“The feel and the mood brought through by my color palette and my style of tattooing is influenced by the way I like to paint and now vice versa as I spend a lot more time tattooing, they lend interestingly to each other,” she explained in a recent interview with Colossal.
Check out some of Rose’s other tattoo works below.
