Obsidra is a private studio on Vance Street. Blackwork, fine line, Japanese and neo traditional, all drawn from scratch after a sit down consult. Every design on our flash wall leaves it once, then it is retired.
Nine drawings, priced and sized. Claim one and it comes off the wall for good, so the piece you wear is the only one of it.
We are a small shop on purpose. Six residents means the person who draws your piece is the person who tattoos it, and the person you email back is one of them, not a front desk.
There is a private room for work that needs it, a sharps protocol you are welcome to read, and a kettle that is always on.
Four steps, roughly six weeks from first email to healed. Nothing here is a surprise on the day.
Tell us the idea, roughly where it goes, and a budget range. A paragraph is plenty.
Forty free minutes with the artist. References, placement, size, and an honest price band.
Twice. Once for the idea, once for the body it is going on. You see it on the day.
One session or a block of them. You leave wrapped, with aftercare written down.
Six styles between six pairs of hands. If your idea sits between two of them, that is usually the interesting one.
Solid black and heavy contrast. Bold shapes that stay readable at arm’s length after twenty years. Noor and Sena lead this.
Single needle work at small scale. Beautiful up close, and honest about how it ages: we size up rather than crowd a design.
Traditional composition, wind bars and backgrounds, planned as a whole limb rather than a collection of pieces. Tam books these in multi session blocks.
Traditional bones with a wider palette and deeper rendering. Strong outline, saturated colour, built to hold.
Body architecture: pieces drawn to the shape you already have, following the line of a shoulder or a sternum rather than sitting on top of it.
Hand drawn, never typed out of a font menu. We letter to the placement so it reads on a curve.
They talked me out of my first idea and drew something better. Two years on it still reads exactly the way it did the week it healed.
I booked a consult expecting a sales pitch and got forty minutes of somebody drawing on tracing paper over a photo of my ribs.
Tam planned the whole arm before touching a needle. Six sessions, no improvising, and it fits me the way it was meant to.
Plasma, flaking, the itch at day six. A day by day account of a normal heal, so you can tell it apart from one that needs a call.
The first drawing answers the idea. The second answers the body it is going on. Both happen before you sit.
Muscle moves, skin folds, and a design that looked square on paper reads crooked on a shoulder. How we plan around that.
By chance, not by plan. If a chair opens on the day we post it on Instagram by 11am. Everything else runs through a consult, because we draw custom and that takes a conversation first.
A flat $120, taken when you book the session and applied to the final price of the piece. It covers drawing time, which happens before you sit.
Bring it as a reference and we will draw from it. We do not trace another artist's work, and we will say so plainly if what you have arrived with belongs to somebody else.
Between three weeks and three months depending on the artist. Noor and Isa are booking September, Tam runs a waitlist, and guest spots open on their own dates.
No. Oregon law requires you to be 18 with valid photo ID, and we check every time regardless of how old you look.
Consults run forty minutes and cost nothing. Come with references, a rough placement, and a budget range. You leave with a date, an artist, and a price band.
