HOLI
Holi
Oliver André
Holm Thomsen
“Extreme-detail microrealism portraits in a bigger and broader composition piece that flows completely with the body angles and muscles.”
I am Oliver. I tattoo as HOLI, out of my own shop in Horsens. My head works a little crooked and the ideas come out skewed, and that is the part people keep coming back for. What I want from a project is room — a body I can compose across, and enough trust to take it somewhere neither of us had drawn yet.
First-person copy drafted for Holi's approval
Fineline // Microrealism · Co-owner, SKRN.CREW · Horsens
2025 · Shoulder to elbow · Five full days
Five days.
Full freedom.
Five full days, back to back, and one hundred percent artistic freedom. I anchored it at the shoulder with the geometry and let the figures fall down the arm from there. The photograph is from the end of the fifth day.
2024 · Full back · Three days
Three-day back
Three days on a full back. I posted it at about ninety-five percent and said so, because that is what it was. The last five percent came later, and that one never got photographed — so this is the stage you can see.
2024 · Upper arm · Full artistic freedom
Falling figure
One of my absolute favourite pieces, and full freedom again. The post I made for it opened with a line from Marcus Aurelius. The line set the weather; the figure is its own.
Working title — Holi to confirm the public name
2023 · Shoulder to forearm · From my own rows
Aristotle
One of my own want-to-dos, claimed by someone who wanted it. In this photograph the forearm is still fresh and the upper arm has healed — the same arm, two states, one frame.
More work
The rest of it
is on Instagram
A hundred and ten posts since 2022 — finished pieces, healed work, stencils, and whatever is on the table that week. This site holds the projects worth explaining. Instagram holds everything else.
Concept Studio
A private desk for
exploring a direction
Somewhere to test a direction on the body before you commit to it. It is never required — you can book a consultation straight away, and most people do.
- What it is
- A private desk for trying a direction on the body
- What it is not
- A tattoo generator, an imitation of another artist, or a promise of a finished design
- Start from
- One of my concepts, my elements, or your own reference — kept apart
- Privacy
- Your drafts stay yours. I see only what you send to consultation
- Proof
- Low resolution, watermarked, and marked as not a final design
- Handoff
- Up to three concepts, with placement and notes
Available
My own directions,
still open
Concepts I have drawn for myself and not placed yet. Each one runs once. The composition and the central figure stay mine; the rest we settle together.
Stand-in. Past work, not the design offered — concept sheet neededDirection 01
- Scale
- Upper arm to elbow
- Fixed
- Composition, central figure
- Flexible
- Surrounding geometry
Status pendingOpen
Stand-in. Past work, not the design offered — concept sheet neededDirection 02
- Scale
- Full back
- Fixed
- Symmetry, central axis
- Flexible
- Figures, supporting linework
Status pendingOpen
Stand-in. Past work, not the design offered — concept sheet neededDirection 03
- Scale
- Forearm
- Fixed
- Portrait and frame
- Flexible
- Chart detail
Status pendingOpen
Titles, terms and status are drafted here and need Holi's confirmation before the page goes live
The studio
SKRN.CREW
I co-own SKRN.CREW. Since June 2026 it has been full time — my own shop, my own room. The shop gives me the space, the crew and the sparring. The work is mine.
- Holi
- Meet and greet, design, and the tattoo itself
- SKRN.CREW
- The room, the station, the colleagues, the coffee
- Where
- Horsens, Denmark
- Address
- By appointment. Policy not set
Start a project
Three ways in,
one way through
There is no right way in. Arrive with a finished idea, take up one of my own directions, or use the desk to work out what you actually want. All three end in the same conversation.
“Often it's a collaboration between me and the client to ensure the design is 100% something the client likes.”
“Stencil placement can change a lot in person — sometimes the tattoo doesn't fit the placement we planned, so we re-design or find another.”
- Direction
- I decide the composition, and to a degree the design and the motif. What you bring is the reason it exists.
- Placement
- The stencil goes on before anything is certain. A design that worked on paper can move, shrink, or get redrawn once it is on you.
- Sessions
- Most of what I take on is large and runs over several long days. Five in a row is a real number from a real project, not a limit.
- After
- You get your aftercare from me, at the shop. Wording under review
Send me a message
I read every enquiry myself before any date or price is agreed. It is not an automatic booking, and most of what I say yes to is larger, multi-session work.
- Send
- Motif or direction, placement, rough size, and when you are flexible
- Where
- A direct message on Instagram, to @holi.ink
- Then
- I answer if it is a fit, and I say so if it is not. No response time promised