Ocean is Old Crow Tattoo's specialist in black and grey realism and portraiture, bringing 26 years of accumulated craft to every session in Berkeley, CA. His work moves through the surreal and the macabre, the kind of imagery that earns its darkness, rendered with the control that only comes from decades of practice. In black and grey, shading is everything.

Ocean's technical precision in value gradation, skin-tone reading, and rendering depth makes the difference between a tattoo that looks flat and one that looks like it's breathing. His specialty in portraiture pushes that further, faces that actually resemble, expressions that hold, references that translate rather than approximate.

If you've seen portraits that disappointed you before, Ocean is the answer. He's been part of Old Crow Tattoo for years, and his work speaks for itself.
Ocean's work is also exceptionally suited for coverup work, do not hesitate to contact him for a consult!

Specialties: Black & grey realism · Surreal & macabre imagery · Portraiture

Book through the contact form, or reach him on Instagram @tattoosbyocean