About Arthouse Tattoo
Arthouse Tattoo is a city shop with a private studio feel, providing a safe and protected environment for clients. Owned and operated by experienced artists, the shop specializes in custom tattooing, cover-ups, and a variety of styles including traditional, fantasy, Japanese, new school, and black & grey. Clients have praised the studio for its clean and comfortable atmosphere, with soothing music that helps ease nerves and a cup of coffee during breaks. The artists are skilled and attentive, taking the time to understand clients' visions to create beautiful tattoos like Celtic designs and Japanese traditional pieces. They focus on making each visit laid back and welcoming, ensuring clients can relax during their sessions. Customers have reported high satisfaction with their tattoos and appreciate the ample healing time between sessions, which helps maintain the quality of the work. Overall, Arthouse Tattoo is known for its professionalism, cleanliness, and ability to turn ideas into unique works of art, with a reputation for creating pieces that look alive, like the koi fish cover-up.
From the consultation, to the sessions, Mike is definitely a great artist to work with. Extremely excited how my Japanese sleeve came out with it being a double cover up. Can’t wait to get more work done from Mike!
You want to work with a real artist, work with Mike. If you want a yes man who provides little to no thought into placement, design or craft go somewhere else. Mike created a beautiful full chest piece that tells a story; his work is not a static image, it's best described as a photograph of an active scene. That is the level of expertise you get when working with him.
He also seamlessly covered up my old surgical scars. His understanding of the body as a canvas exceeded my expectations.
After researching and meeting with several highly rated tattoo artists in the Austin area I booked with Mike at Arthouse Tattoo. I had a very old and faded tattoo that I wanted covered up. From the get-go Mike educated me on the cover-up process, worked with me on the correct image to use (it is a memorial to one of my dogs), and explained his philosophy about tattooing, confirmed all sessions ahead of time, and even checked in on the healing process.
The studio is clean and relaxing and not full of other artists and/or customers. He takes his work very seriously. He did an amazing job on the cover up and you can’t even tell there was ever another tattoo....read full review