Watercolour style Joker face tattoo with green hair and a red grin, with ink splatter and sketched lines, on the upper back near the shoulder blade.

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Joker face tattoo on upper back

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A large portrait of the Joker's face with a wide red grin, pale skin and green swept-back hair, rendered with soft wash-like colour fading into the skin. Dark ink splatters and fine sketchy lines surround the face, with purple and green blooms on the right side. The design fills the upper back and is photographed straight on against plain skin.

Back Joker Splatter Portrait

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Hanna Vell had been lighting ovens at Pennick's Bakery since the cockerels on Foundry Lane were still asleep, and she had learned to tell a knock from a knock meant as a joke. This one came at the yard door three times, quick as dropped spoons, then once more, slow.

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She opened it with the peel in her hand. A man stood on the cobbles with his hair swept back in green, oily waves, as though he had combed it with a cabbage leaf. His face was chalk white, and his mouth ran so wide at the corners it seemed to have been drawn with a split lip. "Morning, baker," he said. "You've got flour on your nose, and I owe you a debt paid in grins." He held out a sack heavier than it looked. It smelled of wet ink and cloves.

Inside were nine dark stones, each splashed with purple and bleeding green where something that was not dye had soaked into them. Hanna knew the sort of trade that brought those. She also knew her grandmother's tale about the trickster who bargained for bread before dawn and never paid except in mischief. "Bake me one loaf," he said, "shaped like the moon when it's laughing, and I'll take the stones away."

She shaped the dough by lamplight, pressed a crescent into it and scored a grin across the top with a knife. When she turned round the yard was empty but for a red smear on the step, and the loaf had split in the oven to show a smile of its own. Every stone in the sack had gone as white as chalk. The bakery sold that bread all morning, and by noon every child in Foundry Lane was laughing at nothing.