Neo-traditional tattoo of a cat in glasses, a flat cap and bow tie holding a drink, with stacked books and pink flowers, on a forearm.

Cat in glasses and flat cap on forearm

Neo-trad · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A cartoon-style cat wearing round glasses, a flat cap and a bow tie sits behind a tumbler of amber drink, with its paw resting on the glass. Stacked books and pink and red flowers fill the lower left and left side of the design. Bold black outlines sit over soft shading and bright red, pink, brown and green colour, and the design wraps around the forearm.

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 bookshop had been shut since Tuesday, so Mr Ambrose conducted his business from the bench under the snug window of the Anchor, where Mrs Dorrit let him sit with his paws on the rim of a tumbler and his spectacles pushed up to read. He was a grey and cream tabby of great dignity, and he wore a flat tweed cap he had never once removed, not even to sleep.

Keep reading

On the Thursday a stranger came in out of the wet with a carrier bag of paperbacks and set them down on the table. Dorrit watched him try to make friends with the cat, which nobody had ever managed. Ambrose lifted one paw from the glass, turned a page of a Chesterton he had read eleven times, and said without looking up, 'The gentleman wants the second shelf, not the bench.'

The stranger laughed, then stopped laughing. Inside the bag were three copies of a novel Ambrose had written years ago under a name nobody in the village knew, and the last chapter had been torn from each one. Ambrose had been waiting a long time for someone to come asking how it ended.

He took a slow swallow, set the glass down with the care of a magistrate, and said, 'Tell him the butler is innocent. The cap was never mine to give.' Then he slid the spectacles back down his nose and returned to the book, which Dorrit noticed was already open at the final page.

More like this

Colour neo-traditional tattoo on a forearm of a cat wearing a flat cap, round glasses and a bow tie, holding a glass beside stacked books and pink flowers.
Cat in cap and glasses with books on forearm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a skeletal fox skull inside an orange ring, with green leaves and sprigs, on the arm.
Skeletal fox skull and sprig on the arm
Traditional-style tattoo on a forearm of a tabby kitten with blue eyes inside a gold ornate frame, with a red rose and orange flowers below.
Kitten in ornate frame with rose on forearm
Colourful geometric skull tattoo with a green headband and black eye patch shape on a calf, in a neo-traditional style.
Geometric skull on a calf
Neo-traditional colour tattoo on a calf of a stitched scarecrow doll in orange overalls holding a lollipop, surrounded by autumn leaves, bats and sweets.
Stitched scarecrow doll with autumn leaves and candy
Colour traditional tattoo of an hourglass with a skull, red roses, leaves and an eye with falling tears, on a lower leg.
Traditional hourglass with skull and eye on a calf
Black and grey skull hourglass tattoo with stippled shading and hatched linework on the inner forearm.
Skull hourglass on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo of a skull pierced by a dagger, surrounded by flowers and green leaves, on the forearm.
Skull and dagger on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo of a cocktail glass showing palm trees and a red sun, with a parasol and orange slice, on the forearm.
Cocktail with palm tree sunset on a forearm
Colour traditional tattoo of an owl wearing a bowler hat with a ribbon, patterned sugar skull style eyes and a teal waistcoat, on the forearm.
Owl in a bowler hat on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo on the upper thigh of a cat wearing a flowered hat and red bow tie, framed in a scalloped oval.
Cat in a hat and bow tie on a thigh
Traditional style tattoo of a Ouija board with dripping candles, red flowers and a black widow spider on the forearm.
Ouija board, candles and flowers on a forearm

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