Black and grey realism tattoo of a bearded classical figure with swirling hair and clouds on a forearm.

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Bearded classical figure on forearm

Realism · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A large portrait of a bearded male face, shown with a sculptural, stone-like finish, sits on the forearm. Swirling wave-like hair and beard flow down the arm, with cloud-like forms above the head. The work uses smooth, soft shading and strong highlights in greys and black on a dark background.

Realism Forearm Face Beard Cloud Swirl Hair Portrait

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Maud, the plaster Neptune has started weeping again, and Mr Ashby says it is damp, but I have watched the wet run from the corners of his eyes and gather in the grooves of his beard like rain in a gutter, and I have stopped arguing with him about it.

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You will remember he came up from the old Winter Garden when they pulled out the pier stage in '31. Great hollow face, grey as a gull's back, waves carved into his hair and a bank of stone cloud above his brow that the carpenters swore was smoke. We hung him over the bandstand doors so the dancers would have something to look up at during the waltzes. Nobody looks at him now except me, sweeping at midnight.

Last Saturday a sailor came to the ticket window with a half-finished cigarette and asked me, perfectly serious, whether the old man still wanted his tithe. I laughed. Then the band struck up Moonlight Serenade, the floor filled, and a bead of water fell from his chin onto the boards exactly on the downbeat. The sailor went white and walked out without his cap.

I have left a tin bucket under him and a bottle of the good gin on the sill. If the tide turns in the night I expect we shall know by morning. Come down when you can. Bring the brass polish and your sense of humour. Yours, Edie.