Illustrated lynx head tattoo flash design with amber eyes, fine linework and soft sepia shading on a beige background.

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Lynx head illustration

Neo-trad · Mixed · Flash

A front-facing lynx head with pointed ear tufts, a dark nose and white cheek ruffs fills the frame. The design uses fine, flowing linework and layered grey and sepia shading to define the fur and facial markings. Warm amber eyes are the only strong colour against a pale, watercolour-textured beige background.

Neo-trad Cat Portrait Animal

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The cat was already sitting on the top coal sack when I lowered the lantern into the hold, as though it had booked the passage and was waiting for me to say so. Two amber eyes caught the light and kept it. I'd heard the drainers' men at Earith swear there were none left on the Ouse since their grandfathers' time, so I told it firmly that it was trespassing, and it went on looking at me the way the lock-keeper does when a boat is late.

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We ran the barge down past the sluice with the tiller lashed and the stove going, and the cat rode in the wheelhouse on a folded tarpaulin like a passenger who expected the good cabin. Its ear tufts stood up black against the grey sky. Near Brownshill the mist came off the washes so thick I could not see the bow, and I had only the reed-hiss and the pale ruff of that animal to steer by, the white fur catching what little light there was.

My grandmother used to say the fen lynx went north when the water was let out, that it sulked in the Wash for a century and came back only once someone was foolish enough to plough the old carr. She told me that to keep me away from the dykes. At Holme Fen I cut the engine and let the barge drift into a willow thicket where the ground was still soft and wild. The cat stood, looked back once, and stepped onto the bank without any hurry at all.

When I tied up, a single tuft of grey fur was caught on the tarpaulin. I keep it in the tin with the spare fuses. Some mornings, when the stove ticks and the mist sits low on the water, I hear something moving in the reeds that isn't the wind, and I leave the hatch open a crack.