Fine line tattoo of a hare inside a dotted-edged frame with a small teacup, in dark blue ink on the forearm.

Hare in a framed panel on forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A hare with long upright ears looks out from a rectangular frame with a dotted border, and a small teacup sits at the lower edge of the panel. The linework is fine and engraving-like, with the fur built up from dense hatching and short strokes. The design is rendered in a single dark blue-black ink on a forearm, with a stack of bangles below it.

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

Sit yourselves down and mind the teacup, it isn't for knocking over. You see that hare on the board above the door, framed up like a bill for a hanging? He was not always so fine. Old Hob Marrow painted him in the hard winter when the river froze at Ely and the fair was stuck fast for nine weeks with nothing to sell but hot chestnuts and gossip.

Keep reading

The hare was called Tobias, and he belonged to nobody, which was the trouble. Every morning he came to the frosted caravan steps and sat up on his hind legs, ears straight as a magistrate's pen, waiting for someone to pour him tea. Hob never had the heart to refuse. He set out a cup from his sister's wedding set, the one with the chipped gold rim, and the hare drank it slowly while the fair folk watched through their breath. Nobody had ever seen a hare drink tea before. Nobody has since, and that's proof enough for me.

Then the thaw came, and the fair rolled on to King's Lynn, and Hob went with it. The hare did not follow. Hob came back the next year, and the year after, and each time he set one cup on the step. Each time the cup was empty by morning, and Hob never once saw him go.

So when you hand me your pennies, mind that little cup at the bottom of the frame. It's still warm if you touch it. Next.

More like this

Realistic black and grey tattoo of an upside-down cat with dark points on the inner forearm, beside a white lace sleeve.
Upside-down cat on a forearm
Neo-traditional jackalope with antlers and long ears, framed by poppies and white blossoms, tattooed on an upper arm.
Jackalope and flowers on an upper arm
Black ink tattoo of the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, drawn in a crosshatched engraving style, on the side of a person's ribs.
White Rabbit tattoo on the ribs
Colour tattoo of a hare in profile on a thigh, with a misty pine forest and grass filling its body in a neo-traditional illustrative style.
Hare silhouette with forest scene on thigh
Fine line black tattoo of a leaping hare above a small rose and sprigs of leaves on pale skin.
Leaping hare with botanical sprigs
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a small sitting rabbit seen from behind and to the side, placed on the outer ankle.
Small sitting rabbit on an ankle
Black and grey tattoo of a cartoon black cat with large pale eyes, sitting on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Cartoon black cat on a forearm
Black and grey tattoo of a seated rabbit covered in ornate geometric patterns and dotwork shading, placed on the upper thigh.
Ornate patterned rabbit on a thigh
Colour tattoo of a brown rabbit surrounded by blackberries, rosemary sprigs and autumn leaves in a wreath on the upper arm, in a botanical realism style.
Rabbit and blackberries on an upper arm
Black and grey sketch-style tattoo of an upright hare pierced by arrows on the upper arm, with dotwork shading in the fur.
Hare with arrows on upper arm
Fine line black ink tattoo of a small rabbit in profile on pale skin, set against a blurred green background.
Small rabbit tattoo on skin
Fine line tattoo of two outlined hands over a solid red circle on the forearm, shown on a person wearing jeans and a grey top.
Two hands over a red circle on a forearm

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