Absolute Art Tattoos

Keith is a great artist, but more so he has great energy & doesn’t make you feel uncomfortable at all. I love my new ink. I’d definitely come back to him.

David told me one price, wrote it down on a card. I came back and got the tattoo and he charged me triple! I showed the card where he wrote the price down but he claimed it took longer than he expected and charged me $ 150 hr. When I said this was unacceptable he locked the doors and called the police. The police said if I didn’t pay him the $ 500 there would be a warrant for my arrest. Complete scam and rip off!!!

I arrived at 11:30, the door was locked!!! I saw a guy inside but he didn’t even answer the phone or the door when I knocked or called. Complete waste of my time.

Professional, great service and energy to the shop, and super stoked with my tattoo. Oldest tattoo shop in Richmond, and prices were on point. One thing I noticed was how white male the space was, including how artists had Confederate flags pasted, and there were racist designs of other ethnicities. All in all– if you’re a queer trans femme person seeking a quality shop, you have found it, but you may be uncomfortable.

I went in… Service was terrible. They weren’t inviting or helpful. WAAAAY over priced for a simple tattoo. I wanted a family members handwriting so they didn’t have much they had to prepare for. I will not be going back.

My friend and I went to get matching tattoos; hers healed horribly muddled but mine is perfectly fine. I also got another tattoo that day that turned out great. I don’t know what went wrong with hers. The staff was mostly friendly, but the girl who worked there was very rude and condescending. I don’t know if I’d go back, but you should still check it out.

Jason Hobbie has done an amazing job with adding onto an existing tat and making it look way better! Not my first time tattooing but he is by far the best artist/​professional I’ve sat in the chair for!

Professional and talented artists. Nice comfortable shop and Jason (who does my work) is one of the best around. Friendly talented guy and will take his time to make sure the tattoo placement is just right. He’s been tattooing me for almost 10 yrs now and I’ve loved every piece he’s done. I highly recommend absolute art for all your tattooing needs in Richmond !

Amazing tattoers, traditional and Japanese work super clean and bold. Brian Bruno is one of the best Japanese themes in the country. A true legend.

I got a tattoo with marina. She is new there. So professional and soooo talented. I am one of those super picky people. It took me 4 years to find the artist I wanted. She is amazing! Already scheduled 2 more appts with her and bringing my sister and my friend to get their tats too :-) the prices are so great too especially when you compare it to dc.

When I moved down to Richmond for graduate school, I was told by a host of people that Absolute Art was the best tattoo shop in the city, and that I should check it out. I was wanting to start the process of covering up two very bad half-​sleeves that I had gotten done early in college. Many shops just turned me away, saying that there was no way they could cover up an already existing half-​sleeve. The very first day I went in there, I showed them my crappy half-​sleeves, and Dave Boisineau immediately said he could get it done.
I was still a bit unsure as to how such a big cover up would work out; as most people cover up an individual tattoo, not a huge piece like a half-​sleeve. When we started though, I was amazed by his sketch and everything he has done with my first «new sleeve» so far, and as I get into the closing stages of the cover-​up process, I couldn’t be happier. I never expected that such bad work could be turned into such an epic sleeve. Dave Boisineau is a genius, straight up. When my friends see what my sleeve looks like now, they can’t believe that it is so awesome when they think about how crappy it used to be.
What is even better about Absolute Art is that Dave Boisineau, Brian Bruno (tattoo artist and owner), Jason Hobbie, and the other guys working there are all extremely talented and very experienced… so no matter what artist you get, you are going to get great work that will make even other tatted-​up people come up to you and ask where you got your work done. It’s really awesome that I was able to put the time in and be able to fix such terrible work and turn it into a piece that is absolutely gnarly and makes me wish I had gotten it in the first place. I can’t recommend Absolute Art enough; because as being quite experienced with getting terrible work done by terrible tattoo artists, it’s great to finally find a shop full of guys who will charge you a good price for tattoos that you (and they) are actually proud of. No matter how big or small your tattoo needs may be, you’d be remiss to land at any other shop in Richmond or in the state of VA for that matter. Absolute Art is where it’s at.

I got my first «real» tattoo here back in 2003 with Jason Hobbie (sp?). It still looks great and I get alot of compliments on it. It has a lot of color that has aged well and the outline is still clean. He also did a good job on placement on my body as it has grown well w/​my body shape. (It is on my upper right shoulder blade, about 8″ long and 4″ at its widest)
I remember him being patient as it took over 4 hours and I was getting tired. His technique was good as well, as I had no scarring.
Recommended! :)

Brian Bruno is one of the best tattooers in the US. great tattoos, cool looking shop and straight forward attitudes. Cant wait to come back.