Neo-traditional colour tattoo on the thigh showing a hand holding paintbrushes and pencils, framed by pink flowers and green leaves.

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Hand holding paintbrushes and pencils on thigh

Neo-trad · Thigh · Colour · Photo

A hand grips a bundle of paintbrushes and pencils, with their black bristles and yellow ferrules at the top, while pink flowers and green leaves spread around it. Below, a small grey creature with red trim and hearts sits beside another pink bloom. Bold outlines, smooth shading and saturated pink, red, blue and green ink give it a vivid colour finish.

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The little grey creature had licked the cadmium red off the palette again, and Maud found it under the drying rack with its mouth stained the colour of a wild rose. She crouched slowly, the way her grandfather had taught her to approach a stray in the yard behind the shop. It watched her with its red-trimmed ears flat and its small hearts blinking along its sides, and it did not run.

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Her hand already knew the grip. Three sable brushes and two pencils, bundled tight, the gold ferrules worn dull from forty years of his thumbs. He had sign-written every shopfront on Kirkgate that way, tools clamped in one fist while the other steadied the board, and he used to say a painter who needed both hands for her tools would never finish a wall. Maud had finished six walls that spring. She still had the bruises from the ladders to prove it.

She set a pink bloom from the windowsill on the floor between them. The creature sniffed it, then took it in both paws and dragged it under the rack. When she reached for the blue pencil that had rolled there, it chirped at her, a sound like a kettle thinking about boiling, and she let the pencil go.

By morning the sign for the bakery was finished in gold leaf. In one corner, half hidden under the scroll, was a small grey shape with a heart on its belly, and the baker's wife said she wouldn't have it painted out for all the flour in Leeds.

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