Hi, I’m Sol.

Hey :) Thanks for checking out my website. Welcome to the chaos.

I’m a first generation Cuban-American artist in California. My mediums include digital painting, tattoo, watercolor, graffiti murals, crochet, and modeling (live figure and still photography).

I am not currently accepting new tattoo clients. 

My Deal.

I was born in Georgia, and raised in the suburbs of South Florida. My parents immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba. I started caregiving and pursing a career in healthcare at sixteen. Later, tattooing changed my life and I will always be grateful for the friends that have trusted me with their body in those early years. My family began to move to California in 2017. In an attempt to stay close, I moved across the country. After much experience in the tattoo and healthcare industries, I was dismayed to find sexism, homophobia, and racial discrimination everywhere and anywhere. In 2017, I began working for non-profits that serve the BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities in California. Since 2022, I’ve been an office administrator and youth group facilitator for The Davis Phoenix Coalition in Davis, California. Through all the changes of my life, I have never stopped drawing, and found a love for portrait and figure modeling in various art galleries and private studios along the coast of California. In 2024, I completed a bachelors degree in Medical and Molecular Microbiology. In 2025, I released my first short story, He Who Dares Stir The Stones. What am I up to next? Gardening, mostly. Writing, and being present in my community. My next book is on the way!

I am happily accepting commissions in digital and multimedia.

I hope we can work together in soon!

Sol Smalls