Fine line lavender sprig tattoo in purple and green running diagonally across the forearm.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Lavender sprig on a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Colour · Photo

A slender lavender sprig with purple flower spikes and thin green stems runs diagonally along the forearm. The linework is delicate, with soft shading inside the purple blooms that gives them some depth. The palette is limited to purples and greens against pale skin, with open space around the design.

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 Mags,

Keep reading

The lavender arrived on Tuesday in a hessian sack that smelt of somewhere I have never been, and I have spent every morning since trying to tame it. Ted says I am overdoing the sugar. He is probably right, but the shortbread has to taste of July even when it is February and the shop window is still black at quarter past four.

Yesterday I stripped the flower spikes from their stalks with my thumb and fingers, the way you showed me with the rosemary, and the purple came off on my knuckles like a bruise that would not fade. I folded the buds into the butter and the sugar and watched the dough go faintly grey-violet. It looked like nothing much until it came out of the oven, pale and gold at the edges, and the whole back room smelt of the hedgerow behind your cottage.

There was one long sprig left over, the longest I had seen, with a bit of green stem still on it and two narrow leaves curling away as if they wanted to leave. I did not have the heart to bin it. I laid it on the cooling rack beside the first tray, and when Ted came in at half five he stood there a long moment, said nothing, and went to light the second oven.

I have kept it pressed in the back of the recipe book, between the pages for your Victoria sponge. Come at Easter. The flour is still on everything, and the window is going grey over the car park, which is my favourite minute of the day.

Love, Dee

More like this

Colour tattoo of a lavender sprig with green stem and leaves running diagonally along the inner forearm, in a fine line botanical style.
Lavender sprig on the inner forearm
Fine line black ink tattoo of a slender botanical sprig with small bell-shaped flowers on the upper arm.
Fine line sprig of flowers on upper arm
Fine line black tattoo of a flowering botanical sprig with small blossoms and leaves on the inner forearm.
Sprig of flowers on a forearm
Fine line lavender sprig tattoo in purple and green on the inner leg, just above the knee.
Lavender sprig on the inner leg
Fine line botanical tattoo of a slender sprig with small pink-tinted flowers and buds on the inner upper arm.
Fine line flower sprig on upper arm
Fine line black tattoo of a hand holding a bunch of wildflowers with the words hold on beneath, on the side of a ribcage.
Hand holding wildflowers with hold on script
Fine line botanical tattoo of Queen Anne's lace flowers and leaves on the upper arm of a person wearing a dark scalloped top.
Queen Anne's lace sprig on the upper arm
Botanical tattoo of a purple flowering sprig with teal leaves and loose falling petals on the upper arm, in a soft watercolour style.
Purple flowering sprig on an upper arm
Black fine line tattoo of a botanical sprig with a spike of lupin-like flowers, leaves and a small clover-like bloom on the calf.
Lupin sprig on a lower leg
Fine line black botanical tattoo of a slender sprig with small buds and leaves on the inner upper arm.
Fine line flower sprig on an upper arm
Fine line botanical tattoo of wildflowers and leaves running along the inner forearm near the wrist, shown in three stacked photographs.
Fine line wildflower sprig on a forearm
Fine line colour tattoo of two lavender sprigs with green stems and leaves on the ankle and lower leg.
Lavender sprigs on the ankle

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