Traditional style tattoo of a flowering cactus, a sombrero and a red and orange sunset inside a circle, on a forearm.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Cactus and sombrero sunset on a forearm

Traditional · Forearm · Colour · Photo

A flowering saguaro-style cactus stands beside a sombrero, set against a red and orange sunset inside a black circular outline. A dark desert silhouette with a smaller cactus and two birds sits on the right. Bold black outlines, flat fills and a few shaded highlights give it a classic colour look, with the sombrero band in patterned reds, blues and yellows.

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

The sombrero had been sat on twice by the time Dad lifted it down from the hook above the Gold Star's counter, and he wouldn't let me carry it out to the van. "It's been to Torremolinos," he said, "which is practically Arizona." The band was still bright, red and blue and a yellow like custard, though the brim had gone soft and grey from years of tea steam.

Keep reading

We drove past the retail park to the edge of Morecambe, where the last cactus in Lancashire grew in a clay pot beside the shuttered bingo hall. Nobody knew who had planted it. It had one yellow flower stuck on top like a stubborn sunflower, and every spring the council sent a man to pull it out and every spring it came back. Dad stood at the railings with his hands in his pockets, looking at the grey water as if it were a desert he'd been promised and never collected.

"Your nan wore a hat like that to the Co-op Christmas do in 1979," he said. "Said it made her look like Rita Hayworth. It made her look like a lampshade, if you ask me." He laughed, then didn't, and set the sombrero on the cactus so the flower poked up through the crown like a stalk through a hat stand.

The sun went down behind the Heysham chimneys, red first and then orange, and two gulls cut across it, black as cut paper. Dad took the hat back, folded it under his arm and said nothing at all, which was how I knew he was keeping it.

More like this

Traditional tattoo of a saguaro cactus, barbed wire ring, white flower and desert mesa on a forearm.
Desert cactus and barbed wire on a forearm
Dotwork saguaro cactus tattoo with orange, pink and teal geometric bands on the upper arm.
Saguaro cactus with geometric bands on upper arm
Colour traditional tattoo of a green cactus with a pink flower in a teal pot with striped bands, on a forearm surrounded by other tattoos.
Cactus in a striped pot on a forearm
Colour traditional tattoo of a green cactus with red hearts and an orange zigzag-patterned base, on the forearm.
Cactus with hearts on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a crystal ball showing a desert with cacti and a mesa under a purple sky, framed by smoke clouds, on the calf in a neo-traditional style.
Crystal ball with desert scene on a calf
Colour traditional tattoo of a llama in a patterned saddle blanket beside a cactus, with red flowers and a teal background, on an arm.
Llama and cactus in traditional colour
Colour traditional tattoo of a cactus in a striped pot on a lower leg, with a red flower and blue blossoms below it.
Potted cactus and flowers on a lower leg
Traditional style tattoo on a calf showing a red eye in a cloud frame above a shaded umbrella with raindrops and a red flower below.
Eye, umbrella and rain on a calf
Traditional style colour tattoo of a blue-green cactus with a red flower and red buds, in a striped and triangle-patterned pot, on the forearm.
Cactus in a patterned pot
Colourful neo-trad tattoo of a cat silhouette filled with a sunset, green leaves, a yellow flower and a waterfall, on the forearm.
Cat silhouette with sunset and waterfall
Traditional style colour tattoo of a green cactus in an orange and black patterned pot on the inner forearm, with other tattoos above it.
Cactus in a patterned pot on a forearm
Traditional colour tattoo of an anchor wrapped in rope, with a red rose, green waves and black droplets, on a forearm.
Anchor and rose on a forearm

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