Gallery: Innovative Artist Uses Real Leaves And Flowers To Create Stunning Tattoos

Rita “Rit Kit” Zolotukhina is a tattoo artist. But she works a little differently than most. Rit Kit is a botanical tattooist.

From Kyiv, Ukraine, Rit Kit draws inspiration from nature, in order to create beautifully stunning leaf and flower tattoos. 

“I’m a nature lover, so most of my sketches are related to flora,” she said in an article by Illusion. “But the more I drew, the more I wanted something fresh and native, to feel the plants without any steps in between.”

In order to create the designs, Rit Kit dips leaves into stencil ink and then presses it onto the body, which leaves an imprint. 

“We don’t know the definitive look when we start, just the colors, the mood and basic shape," she said. "It’s my favorite way to make tattoos, and I think the most natural. They’re like botanical fingerprints on the bodies of other brave nature lovers.”

According to the same article, the colors of the tattoo are inspired by both the living, and dying, parts of the original plant.

Rit Kit shares photos of her work on Instagram, including in-process photos like the one directly below. Keep scrolling to see some of her designs: