Prick and Poke Tattoo

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Prick and Poke Tattoo

🌵 Robin | Artist
Meaningful tattoos, custom, fine-line, floral, memorial, and sensual ornamental areola art. Grants Pass, OR & Olympia, WA.

Walk-ins & consults welcome.

09/02/2026

Did you make the right guess? 👀

A little while back, I gave you two skeletons sitting side by side, holding hands, and asked you to guess where they were going.

Well… here’s your answer.

A beach. Waves rolling in. A distant planet far, far away…

And wait—what’s that in the sky?

“That’s no moon. It’s a space station.”

Yep. We’re going Star Wars. 🌌

And technically, Star Wars was here before the skeletons ever arrived. This whole idea started with a little Millennium Falcon flash tattoo on the back of his arm. Rather than having one small piece sitting separately from everything else, we’re finding a way to pull it right into the new world we’re building around it—eventually turning that original Falcon into graffiti among the rocks.

There’s still a LOT left to happen with this one. Color, atmosphere, and plenty more that I’m deliberately not giving away yet.

So… did anyone actually see Star Wars coming? Because I’m pretty sure I gave you absolutely nothing to work with. 😂

Now follow along. This little beach trip is about to get a whole lot more interesting.

📍 Resident Artist | Prick and Poke Tattoo | Southpaw Tattoo Parlor, Grants Pass, OR
📍 Guest Artist | Sorry Mom Ink, Lacey/Olympia, WA

08/31/2026

It started with a sketch.

A hand-drawn idea my client brought to me of a girl surviving in a desolate swamp, breathing through a rebreather while the world around her has all but died.

And session by session, we’ve been building her world.

Now the glow of her rebreather cuts through the decay, with vines and flowers clinging to the only source of fresh air. Everything beyond her feels dead and heavy, the pressure of the swamp closing in—with the raven still watching from within it.

This session brought even more color into her, and now the whole story is finally there.

We have one last session ahead of us to pull everything together, strengthen those final details, and make the entire piece feel cohesive. But seeing that first sketch next to where we are now is pretty dang satisfying.

I absolutely love being handed an idea like this—not a finished tattoo design, but a world someone has imagined—and figuring out how to make it live on skin.

📍 Resident Artist | Prick and Poke Tattoo | Southpaw Tattoo Parlor, Grants Pass, OR
📍 Guest Artist | Sorry Mom Ink, Lacey/Olympia, WA

Original “Respire” artwork by Yuumei (Wenqing Yan). Tattoo composition adapted and expanded from my client’s concept.

08/29/2026

We are officially down to the leaves. 🌿

The last of the color went into the flowers this session—bumping up the contrast in the ranunculuses and bringing in those soft peachy tones through the poppy and surrounding blooms.

And now this whole piece is really starting to come together. The fireflies, the bumblebee, the tiny jumping spider, all tucked into a garden that has slowly grown across her arm one session at a time.

All that’s left is bringing the leaves to life and tying everything together. And okay… maybe a tiny touch-up here or there, because I apparently don’t know how to call something completely finished. 😂

If you’ve been thinking about going BIG with florals—full sleeves, half sleeves, big botanical pieces—bring them my way. I will happily spend my days building gardens on people. 🌸🌿

📍 Resident Artist | Prick and Poke Tattoo | Southpaw Tattoo Parlor, Grants Pass, OR
📍 Guest Artist | Sorry Mom Ink, Lacey/Olympia, WA

DM me or use the link in my bio to start planning yours.

08/29/2026

I already know I could not be trusted with a tiny bumblebee on my pinky. 😂🐝

Because personally, I’d be buzzing this little guy around ALL DAY.

Bzzzzzzzzzz
🐝 “Gotcha.”
Bzzzzzzzzzz
🐝 “Gotcha again.”

Nobody would be safe. Friends, family, strangers minding their own business… everybody is getting stung by my tiny finger bee. 😂

Thankfully, this adorable little bumblebee went home with my client instead, who I’m sure is going to behave much more responsibly with it than I ever would.

Seriously though—LOOK HOW CUTE HE IS. 🥹🐝

📍 Resident Artist | Prick and Poke Tattoo | Southpaw Tattoo Parlor, Grants Pass, OR
📍 Guest Artist | Sorry Mom Ink, Lacey/Olympia, WA

08/27/2026

Okay, wait… what am I looking at? 😂

This is definitely not the “normal” style you’re used to seeing from Prick and Poke.

This little guy is from the video game Content Warning—affectionately known as Mouthe… Screamo. And yes, he is every bit as weird as he looks.

People ask me all the time what my favorite style of tattooing is, and my first answer is usually florals. Flowers come naturally to me. I don’t have to think too hard about how I want them to move or how I’m going to build them.

But my other answer?

Anything that makes me think.

Give me something where I have to stop and figure out, Okay… how the heck am I going to tattoo THAT?

And with this guy, it was burlap.

How do you make skin look like woven, rough burlap using nothing but ink and a needle? How much texture is enough? How do you make it readable without turning it into a muddy mess?

Turns out—it was ridiculously fun to figure out.

I’ve gotten to see this little creep healed since we did him, and that burlap texture is still absolutely there. 🙌

Between that texture, his creepy little legs, and that big ol’ face, I had way too much fun with this one.

When you look through my portfolio, I don’t necessarily want you to see one specific “style.” I want you to see that I love learning, experimenting, and developing my skills across all kinds of tattooing.

So yeah… bring me the flowers.

But you can absolutely bring me the weird stuff, too. 😂

📍 Resident Artist | Prick and Poke Tattoo | Southpaw Tattoo Parlor, Grants Pass, OR
📍 Guest Artist | Sorry Mom Ink, Lacey/Olympia, WA

08/26/2026

Before there was light, Raven had to steal it. 🖤

In traditional Raven stories of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, the world was once dark. The sun, moon, and stars were being kept hidden away, their light belonging only to the one who possessed them.

But Raven is clever—and Raven is rarely content to leave things as they are.

Through trickery, transformation, and a little bit of chaos, Raven found his way to the hidden light. He released the stars into the night sky, the moon above them, and finally the sun—bringing daylight to a world that had never known it.

Like many stories passed through generations, the telling changes between nations and storytellers. Raven himself is wonderfully complicated: creator and trickster, curious and mischievous, sometimes selfish, yet capable of changing the world through his actions.

My client chose Raven Stealing the Sun as a way to connect with and honor her Native roots—carrying a piece of that storytelling, history, and connection with her.

There is something pretty incredible about tattooing imagery whose story has been told for generations…and getting to help someone make it part of their own.

📍 Resident Artist | Prick and Poke Tattoo | Southpaw Tattoo Parlor, Grants Pass, OR
📍 Guest Artist | Sorry Mom Ink, Lacey/Olympia, WA

08/25/2026

There’s pride in a family name. Pride in being connected to the people who came before us and the pieces of them that continue forward with us.

For this return client, that meant adding her last name to her arm in her father’s own handwriting. 🤍

She already carries other tattoos representing experiences and memories she shared with her dad, and this one feels a little different. Simple. Personal. His signature, her family name, and something that has always belonged to both of them.

Wherever life takes her, she’ll always carry her family name—and a little piece of her dad—with her.

📍 Resident Artist | Prick and Poke Tattoo | Southpaw Tattoo Parlor, Grants Pass, OR
📍 Guest Artist | Sorry Mom Ink, Lacey/Olympia, WA

08/25/2026

There’s something so beautiful about taking a symbol already full of meaning and letting it bloom. 🌸♾️

For her autism infinity symbol, we traded traditional lines for flowers, carrying the rainbow through the design one bloom at a time.

Some are graceful, some delicate, some a little unexpected—and so much of the beauty comes from those differences. A garden wouldn’t be nearly as beautiful if every flower grew exactly the same, and I love how naturally that reflects the individuality of autism. There is no single way it looks, feels, or moves through the world. 🌈

Each flower was carefully arranged within the infinity symbol so that, together, the blooms become the rainbow—each holding its own color and character while still flowing beautifully into the next.

Delicate fine line meets rich, saturated color, and I absolutely love the balance. Soft and intricate, but definitely not quiet.

📍 Resident Artist | Prick and Poke Tattoo | Southpaw Tattoo Parlor, Grants Pass, OR
📍 Guest Artist | Sorry Mom Ink, Lacey/Olympia, WA

Want something meaningful turned into a design that feels completely your own? DM me or use the booking link in my bio.

08/22/2026

This girl has plans. And after spending time with her, I have absolutely no doubt she’s going to conquer whatever obstacles get in her way.

She came in knowing exactly what she wanted. Every fine line tattoo was researched, thoughtfully curated, and planned down to the placement. Nothing random. Nothing just thrown on. She had a vision for how she wanted everything to come together—and I am totally here for it.

There’s something pretty cool about watching someone put that much intention into the little things. I have a feeling she brings that same energy to the big things, too. 🖤

Can’t wait to see where life takes her.

📍 Resident Artist | Prick and Poke Tattoo | Southpaw Tattoo Parlor, Grants Pass, OR
📍 Guest Artist | Sorry Mom Ink, Lacey/Olympia, WA

DM to book or use the link in bio.

08/22/2026

Flowers and swirls gracing the side of the foot and winding their way up the ankle. 🌿✨

The florals gave us the foundation, but the swirls were drawn directly onto her skin so I could follow the natural shape of her foot and ankle—letting each one curve, stretch, and fall exactly where it looked best.

Sometimes the prettiest details are the ones you don’t plan down to the millimeter. You just have to let the body tell you where they belong. 🖤

📍 Resident Artist | Prick and Poke Tattoo | Southpaw Tattoo Parlor, Grants Pass, OR
📍 Guest Artist | Sorry Mom Ink, Lacey/Olympia, WA

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Grants Pass, OR
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