Colour tattoo of a stylised insect with blue and green swirling wings and black dot details, on the inner wrist and forearm.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Blue and green swirl insect on a wrist

Forearm · Colour · Photo

A stylised insect-like motif sits on the inner wrist, with two dark dots forming the head and body. Its wings are made of curling swirls outlined in blue and green, with black line accents at the tips. The bold, even linework and solid fills are set against smooth, lightly glossy skin on a plain, close-cropped background.

Find an artist for this

Take it to an artist as a reference. A good artist will make it yours rather than copy someone else's tattoo.

A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tam, The ferry didn't run on Tuesday, so the post has been sitting in Morag's shed beside the paraffin and the bread. I'm writing anyway, because the dragonflies have come back to the mill pond, the blue ones with the green tails, and I thought of your old skiff and the way you used to row us out through them.

Keep reading

Da always said they were the island's own weather. You could read a fair day by how they hung over the reeds, wings stiff as sheet glass, and a wet one by how they scattered. You'd catch one in your cupped hands and blow on it until it lifted off, its wings curling round on themselves like someone had drawn them with a loose pen. Two black dots for eyes, you told me, so they could see you coming and decide whether to bother.

I went down to the pond on Wednesday with the jam jar from the dresser, meaning to bring one up to the window so you'd have something to look at in that flat grey city. I couldn't do it. I sat on the wall until the light turned the water the colour of an old bottle and watched them stitch the air above the rushes, loop and stop and loop again, and I thought that if I caught one it would only be a dead thing in a jar pretending to be a summer.

Come home for the Michaelmas gales if the boat will carry you. Bring your own jar. I'll keep the lid off and we can let them go together.

More like this

Fine line infinity symbol tattoo with blue, white and green flowers on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Infinity symbol with flowers on a wrist
Colour fine line tattoo of a dragonfly with patterned blue, green and orange wings and purple vine swirls on a lower leg.
Patterned dragonfly with swirls on a calf
Fine line dragonfly tattoo with teal and purple wings and black swirling tail and antennae, on a person's back.
Teal and purple dragonfly on upper back
Botanical colour tattoo of black vine scrolls with a blue flower, a purple flower and green leaves, shown on bare skin.
Blue and purple flowers with black vine scrolls
Close-up photograph of a green tribal spiral tattoo with black outlines and swirling curled shapes on a person's skin.
Green tribal spiral tattoo on skin
Fine line butterfly tattoo with blue and pink swirled wings and black tendrils trailing down the forearm.
Blue and pink butterfly with swirl tail
Black ink abstract tattoo of stylised swirls, pointed petal shapes and dots on the outer lower leg.
Swirl and dot motif on a lower leg
Traditional style butterfly tattoo with blue and green wings, bold black outlines and curled antennae, on the top of a foot or ankle.
Blue and green butterfly on the foot
Small colour tattoo of a butterfly with teal and lilac wings and a semicolon for its body, placed on the inner wrist.
Semicolon butterfly on a wrist
Close-up of a green and grey Celtic knotwork butterfly tattoo with spiral wing tips on skin.
Celtic knot butterfly tattoo
Black outline tattoo of a dragonfly whose body is a semicolon, above a band of outlined flowers on the wrist.
Dragonfly and semicolon on a wrist
Fine line black tattoo of a looping swirl symbol with a small numeral beside it, on the inner ankle above a pink sock.
Swirl symbol with small numeral on ankle

From the plentytattoo archive, uploaded by a user. Is this your work? Ask for credit or removal.