Colour tattoo of abstract paint splashes in purple, blue, green, pink and red across the inner forearm.

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Abstract paint splashes on a forearm

Forearm · Colour · Photo

The tattoo covers the inner forearm with loose, abstract shapes resembling spilt watercolour paint, including soft blooms, droplets and thin pink and red streaks. The linework is minimal, with most of the design built from soft edges and layered tonal washes. Vivid purple, blue, green, pink and red dominate against the pale skin, and the composition runs diagonally along the length of the arm.

Forearm Paint splash Splatter Brushstroke Abstract shape Droplet

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The rain had been coming down on the dye stalls since the noon bell, and Mabel Quick was still trying to keep her pots from running into one another. Her father had always said colour was a thing that wanted to escape, and the wet made it worse. Indigo crept over the lip of the blue jar, madder spread across the cloth, and the whole row of awnings dripped rainbows onto the cobbles.

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Her brother Tam came up the lane with a bolt of undyed linen on his shoulder and a face like a wet dog. He had promised the baker's wife a shawl by Saturday and had not yet touched a vat. "Leave the pots," he said. "Come and look at what the river's doing." Down by the fish quay the rain had lifted the spilt pigments off the gutters and carried them out over the water in soft clouds, purple and green, with a red thread pulling through the blue like a seam.

Mabel stood at the edge of the quay and watched it spread. She thought of the old saying that a dyer's hands are never clean, and that every colour sold in the market has been wept into the cloth first. The river took the bloom from the tanners' yard and the pinks from the ribbon-makers and laid them all down together, and none of it stayed where it was put.

She went back to the stall with her sleeves rolled and the cold in her wrists. She tipped the spoiled indigo into the gutter, let the madder run where it liked, and sold the shawl for a penny more than the baker's wife expected, because it was the only one in the market that looked like weather.