Black and grey castle tattoo on an ankle, with an Iron Mike banner tattoo above it and red trainers in the frame.

Castle tattoo on the ankle

Ankle · Mixed · Photo

A detailed castle with tall spires and arched windows sits on the ankle, set on a shaded rocky base. The castle is rendered in black and grey with fine linework and soft shading across the stonework. Above it, a banner reads IRON MIKE in black lettering, and a small patch of pink and red watercolour-style ink sits at the side of the ankle.

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 flour was still hanging in the air when the old oven started ticking, which meant it was ten to four and I had a castle to finish. Iron Mike had been bolted into the back wall since before my father bought the lease, a black iron brute the previous baker used to slap and swear at. Nobody else could get a decent crust out of it, and I'd stopped arguing with it years ago.

Keep reading

The order was a christening cake, three tiers, and the mother had sketched the design on the back of a receipt: a grey castle with spires like sharpened pencils, perched on a crag of rock, every window arched. I'd spent two nights on the spires alone, piping sugar paste over wire, and they kept leaning like drunks outside a pub. The rock was easy. Rock forgives you. You just dust it with cocoa and let it be uneven.

By half four the spires finally stood straight. The windows were the hard part, each arch no wider than a fingernail, and my hands were shaking from too much coffee. Then the back door opened and Dad came in with the van keys in his fist, took one look at the cake, and said nothing for a long time.

"Your nan would have made it taller," he said at last. Then he reached past me, took the finest brush from the jar, and painted a small red flag on the highest spire. Outside, the sky over the car park was going the colour of weak tea, and Iron Mike ticked and settled as it cooled.

More like this

Traditional colour tattoo on a calf showing a red rose with green leaves, an orange monarch butterfly and a lettered banner.
Rose, butterfly and banner on a calf
Black and grey blackwork octopus tattoo with dotwork shading on a man's calf, with its tentacles wrapping down towards the ankle.
Octopus tattoo on a lower leg
Black and grey realism style tattoo of vampire fangs with blood drops on the ankle, with a train tattoo above on the lower leg.
Vampire fangs on an ankle
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a cactus with spines on the outer ankle, photographed from behind with white trainers.
Cactus outline tattoo on an ankle
Black and white photo of a small fine line wing tattoo on the inner ankle, above a white sneaker.
Small wing tattoo on ankle
Two script word tattoos, Run on the left ankle and Fast on the right, in black ink with red canvas sneakers and rolled khaki trousers.
Run and Fast script ankle tattoos
Traditional style tattoo sleeve on a person's legs, with red roses, a swallow and daggers, lying on a wooden floor.
Traditional leg sleeve with roses and a swallow
Realism style skull wearing a gold crown above a grey banner reading True till death, tattooed on a calf in mixed grey and colour ink.
Skull and crown with banner on a calf
Two tattooed hands tie a light blue shoelace on a dark shoe, with a traditional style animal face on the back of the right hand and letters across the fingers.
Tattooed hands tying a light blue lace
Two small crown tattoos on the fingers of clasped hands, one solid black and one outlined, in a fine line style on the hand.
Small crowns on two fingers
Realism tattoo sleeve on the forearm showing Greek-style columns, a detailed astronomical clock dial and a classical statue against a cloudy sky, in grey shading with warm brown tones.
Classical columns and astronomical clock on forearm
Close-up of a small black lettering tattoo reading adventure, running vertically along the calf below a knee, with a red cord and gold bangle at the ankle.
Adventure lettering on a lower leg

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