Colour sleeve tattoo on the upper arm showing Care Bears on clouds beneath a crescent moon, with stars, a rainbow and a pastel castle, plus a grey Grumpy Bear in an inset.

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Care Bears sleeve with moon and clouds

Upper arm · Mixed · Photo

A full upper arm sleeve shows Care Bears characters, including a red bear holding a rainbow, a green bear and a grey bear in a small inset, set among clouds, stars, hearts and a crescent moon. The outlines are bold and the shading is soft and smooth, with pastel blues, pinks, yellows and greens. The design wraps around the arm from several angles, with a pale castle rising in the background.

Upper arm Bear Rainbow Moon Star Cloud Castle Heart

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The red bear had lost its rainbow twice before Mrs Pryce brought the carousel panel back to the workshop, so I gave it the full treatment this time: three thin coats of cream under the pink, and the rainbow laid on while the paint was still wet, so the colours would bleed into each other the way they do over the bay after rain.

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Donnie, who runs the pier stall, wanted the castle too, pale blue and tall, with hearts in every window. I told him castles were for kings, and he said the bears were the kings of this town. I painted the green one beside the lamp post and the grey one in the corner, sulking, because Mrs Pryce said he had been left out of the last two sets and she wanted him included even if he looked fed up about it.

On the last evening I climbed the ladder to put the crescent moon in, the one I had sketched on the back of a pie menu in March. The paint was still tacky when the lights along the prom came on, and the whole panel caught them at once. Mrs Pryce stood below with her hand over her mouth and said her husband would have laughed at the grey bear. I said I hadn't meant to make him look sad. She said he wasn't sad, he was only waiting for someone to notice him.

I signed the panel in the corner, under the smallest star, the way my father used to. Then I rinsed the brushes, locked up, and walked home along the water with turpentine on my hands, wondering which of the bears I would have chosen if anyone had asked me.