Colour tattoo of two embracing figures based on Klimt's The Kiss, with the word LOVER beside them, on the inner forearm.

Klimt-style embracing couple on a forearm

Forearm · Colour · Photo

The tattoo shows two figures embracing with closed eyes, drawn in bold black outline with a gold patterned robe filled with circles, squares and rectangles. The woman's robe and the man's dark clothing are decorated with small coloured dots, flowers and stars in orange, purple, green and red. The word LOVER runs in black lettering down the right side, and the design sits on a forearm against a plain pink background.

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

Dear Ruth,

Keep reading

You will think I have finally lost my wits, but I have spent three days in Vienna copying gold. Not paint: gilder's gold, the leaf laid on red bole and burnished with a dog's tooth until it stops being metal and becomes light. The guard at the Belvedere, a Hungarian with a moustache like a yard brush, let me sit on the bench under the big picture on the condition that I did not touch the glass.

I did not touch the glass. I only watched. Two figures stand at the edge of a field of gold, his head bent down, her eyes shut, and the whole robe is squares and circles, a hundred small rectangles like the tiles of a grand hotel bathroom. Every one of them is a small lie the painter told so that we would believe the pair of them stood on something precious. I could count the lies from the bench. I counted them until the guard coughed.

What held me was the cloth at the edges, the dark where nobody looks, sprinkled with orange dots and purple flowers and little stars like someone shaking out a box of sweets. I kept thinking about what I would have put there instead.

So I went down to the river, bought a tin of cheap enamel from a barge man called Pavel, and sat on the wall painting dots onto the inside of my own forearm with a sable brush from my bag. Orange, then red, then a green that refused to dry. Sophie says it looks like a rash. I told her it is the only honest gold I have ever put on anything, and she laughed, which is the first time since March.

Write back and tell me the boys are eating.

Your brother, Tom

More like this

Colour tattoo of a woman embracing a child, with golden hair patterned with flowers, in a fine line style on the upper arm.
Embrace with gold hair and flowers on upper arm
Colour fine line tattoo of a face outline on an upper arm, with Lego bricks spilling out across the eye area.
Lego bricks dissolving from a face outline
Fine line tattoo of a head outline with coloured Lego bricks scattered across the face, on the forearm.
Lego bricks spilling from a head outline
Black linework tattoo on a forearm showing a striped-shirt figure with a long braid, a monkey face and a wolf head, in fine line style.
Wolf, monkey and braided figure on a forearm
Traditional colour tattoo of a cartoon couple within a gold-edged heart frame with red roses, on the outer thigh.
Cartoon couple in heart frame on thigh
Colour tattoo of a serene Buddha head with closed eyes and soft blended purple and teal shading, on the inner forearm.
Blue and purple Buddha head on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of two stylised figures embracing, with a large flower and leafy sprigs, on the upper thigh.
Two figures embracing with flowers on a thigh
Neo-traditional colour tattoo on a forearm showing two profile faces, a man in round sunglasses and a woman with a bob, beside a sprig of blue and green leaves.
Two profile faces and leaves on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a headless figure in a green suit and yellow tie, with a tangled knot of red, yellow, blue and green lines for a head, on the upper arm.
Headless suited figure with tangled head
Colourful geometric bird tattoo with black hatching and yellow, teal and orange accents on a forearm.
Stylised bird on a forearm
Fine line illustrated tattoo of a woman in a cloche hat reading a book beside a red tulip, on the inner forearm.
Reading woman and tulip on forearm
Colour tattoo of a palm tree on a striped island with several embracing figures, placed on the thigh above the knee.
Palm tree and embracing figures on a thigh

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