Meet Your Artist
Josaline Green is a Bay Area–based blackwork tattoo artist focused on large-scale, custom projects that evolve with the body over time. Her work blends abstraction with futuristic and ornamental influences, resulting in designs that feel intentional, integrated, and enduring.
Her practice centers on collaboration, restraint, and long-form tattooing. Creating pieces meant to be lived with, not rushed.
Josaline Green is a Berkeley-based tattoo artist specializing in large-scale blackwork in a signature style that blends geometric patterning, digital forms, and organic movement. Her work has been recognized with top honors at the 2025 Summit Invitational, reflecting a practice grounded in technical excellence and thoughtful design. Working out of Dark Water, one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s premier tattoo studios, she offers a refined, collaborative approach to body art focused on care, precision, and personal meaning.
Josaline’s blackwork tattoos are designed to move with the body, merging flowing contours with structured motifs inspired by technology, abstraction, and symbolic systems. The result is blackwork that feels modern yet timeless, tailored to fit both form and identity.
Josaline’s style is shaped by her early years in Florida’s lush wetlands and the quiet stillness of the Colorado mountains. That connection to natural rhythm and subtle detail informs everything she creates. Each piece begins with a conversation—an intuitive, low-pressure process where your ideas, goals, and comfort shape the design.
Before moving to the Bay Area, Josaline began her career tattooing approximately 6 years ago in Fort Collins, Colorado at Covenant Tattoo. Since, she is also active in doing guest work in places such as Vail, CO, Astoria, OR, Salem, MA and San Antonio, TX. She is also a regular attendee of various tattoo conventions.
In addition to her signature style, Josaline welcomes a range of custom tattoo projects. Whether you’re drawn to themes of transformation, futurism, or simply seeking a design that feels right on your body, she works closely with you to create something meaningful and enduring.
Now welcoming new clients at Dark Water in Berkeley—serving the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
ffJosaline Green specializes in heavy blackwork, abstract and cyber tattoos. She currently works out of Darkwater Ink in Berkeley, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also services Oakland, CA and occasionally travels to do guest spots. Especially in Fort Collins, CO and the Denver Area, as well as Salem, MA.