01 · ProcessThe stencilH · Pangea Ink · Casco Viejo, Panama City
Reality,made permanent. — H, colour realism and portrait tattoo artist at Pangea Ink, Casco Viejo, Panama City.
Colour realism, portraiture and hyperrealistic work — built around composition, skin, light and longevity.
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Colour realism · Portraits
Pangea Ink · Panama
The approach
Built like an image.
Worn like a memory.
H works in colour realism, translating photographs, portraits and objects into tattoos that read as if they were resting on the skin — designed around the body, not pasted onto it.
Colour realismPrimary language
HyperrealismObjects, portraits, scale
Casco ViejoPangea Ink · Panama City
Selected work
Not a feed.
A body of work.
A tighter edit of H's realism, portrait and large-format work. The images carry the page; the interface gets out of the way.
Below, the part that rarely gets photographed: the stencil, the needle, the hours before any of it becomes skin.
Chat first01 · ProcessThe stencil
02 · ProcessThe needle
03 · ProcessThe session
04 · StudioMegan Massacre
The artist
H.
H tattoos out of Pangea Ink in Casco Viejo, Panama City. The work is colour realism first: portraits, and objects rendered so faithfully they read as if they were resting on the skin. Projects are taken one at a time and quoted individually, which is why the portfolio here is an edit rather than an archive.
Best fit
Portraits · colour realism · hyperrealistic objects
Studio
Pangea Ink · Casa Lefevre · Casco Viejo, Panama City
Process
Reference → composition → placement → session
Clients
Local and international · 18+ only
Destination tattooing
Come to Panama.
Leave with the piece.
H works from Pangea Ink in Casco Viejo, Panama City's UNESCO old town. For international clients the route is simple: send the idea, agree the scope and the number of sessions, then plan the trip around a confirmed date — not the other way round.
Pangea Ink — Casco ViejoCasa Lefevre, Plaza de la Independencia
Calle San Pablo, San Felipe
Panama City, Panama
The discipline
Realism, portraits
and hyperrealistic work.
What a realism tattoo actually is
A realism tattoo reproduces its subject the way a photograph would: real light, real depth, real texture, no outline holding the shape together. Hyperrealism pushes the same craft further, to the point where the piece reads as an object resting on the skin rather than a drawing applied to it. Both live or die on the same three things — reference quality, tonal range, and how the composition sits on the body's curve.
Portrait tattoos
A portrait is the hardest test in the discipline, because anyone who knows the face will spot a millimetre of error. H works from high-resolution reference, and will say no to a photo that cannot carry the size you want. That conversation happens before anything is booked, not after.
Colour and black and grey
H works in both. Colour realism carries the saturation of the original — skin tone, fabric, fur, the exact green of a leaf — and rewards larger canvases where the tonal range has room to breathe. Black and grey realism strips the subject to light and shadow alone, which is unforgiving of a weak reference but ages with more control and reads cleanly at any size. Neither is the easy option. Say which one you have in mind when you write, or bring the reference and let H tell you which one the image is actually asking for.
How a project runs
Reference and idea first, then composition and placement, then a session plan. Large-scale realism is quoted per project and often runs across several sessions. Nothing is priced from a message alone.
Before you write
The questions
that come first.
Where does H tattoo?
At Pangea Ink, Casa Lefevre, Plaza de la Independencia, Calle San Pablo, Casco Viejo, Panama City.
What kind of work does H take on?
Photorealism, portraiture and large-scale compositions. The design is built around the body area it will live on rather than applied to it, so placement is part of the conversation from the start.
Are prices published?
No. Every tattoo project is quoted individually — size, placement, detail and the number of sessions all change the answer, so a published price would be misleading.
What is the minimum age?
18 and over only. There are no exceptions.
I'm travelling to Panama. How should I plan it?
Send the project and your dates before you book flights. The scope and how the sessions are distributed depend on what you want done, and it is worth agreeing that first so the trip is built around a confirmed date.
How do I start?
Send the idea, body area, approximate size, references and travel dates if relevant. Pangea's booking team routes the project to H and coordinates the next step.
Start here
Your idea.
H's execution.
Send the concept, body area, approximate size, references and travel dates if relevant. Pangea's booking team will route the project to H and coordinate the next step.
5.0 · 399 Google reviews at Casco Viejo, 1,001 across both Pangea Ink studios
01Send the idea
02Align the project
03Book the session
Pangea Ink residents
Not the style
you had in mind?
H tattoos photorealism and portraiture. The rest of the Pangea Ink residents cover different specialisms across our two studios in Panama City — if your idea belongs to one of them, go straight there.
- Mike Villamizar — black & grey realism, portraits and cover-upsVía Argentina
- Aris — fine line & botanical tattoosVía Argentina
- Riverón — freehand & graffiti-rooted letteringCasco Viejo
- Macabreink666 — dark abstract lettering & blackoutVía Argentina
- Ulises Malavé — american traditional & old schoolCasco Viejo
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