Small black tattoo of a pine tree inside a crescent moon, centred on the upper back of a woman with her hair in a bun.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Pine tree and crescent moon on upper back

Back · Black and grey · Photo

A small black tattoo of a pine tree sits centrally on the upper back, with its tapering silhouette overlapping a crescent moon outline. The tree is filled with solid black ink with ragged, uneven edges, while the moon is drawn as a thin single line that curves around the left side of the tree. The image is in black ink only, with a plain dark background and soft natural light on the skin.

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'll think me soft for writing about a tree, but the Scots pine above the hut has been on my mind since the night Mr Galbraith shook me awake to see the moon. It hung low and thin over the ridge, a paring of light, and the old pine nearest us had caught it so the crescent seemed to curl round the trunk like a hand. He said a tree is only honest when it stands clear of its own shadow. I laughed at him then.

The factor had marked that pine for felling, along with forty others, and the axes have been ringing down the glen all week. Galbraith would not let his crew near it. He sat at its foot with his flask and his father's notebook, drawing the moon in pencil on the back of a tally sheet, a single line that never quite closed. When the factor came up the track on Thursday, Galbraith only tapped the page and said, "Look at the shape of it first."

I did look. The branches were ragged where the wind had worried them, black against the sky, and the moon ran round the left of them like someone keeping a secret. The factor went back down the hill without his saw. Galbraith folded the sheet into his pocket and said the pine could keep its moon a while longer.

Yours, Tom

More like this

Black fine line tattoo of a ferris wheel with spokes and a central hub, placed in the centre of the upper back.
Ferris wheel tattoo on upper back
Fine line black tattoo of a lotus flower with a dotted top and a swirled unalome line, centred on a person's upper back below the neck.
Lotus and unalome on upper back
Black and grey tattoo of a compass rose beside a tall pine tree, with dotwork fading down the trunk, on the calf near the ankle.
Compass and pine tree on a lower leg
Black ink tattoo of a snake eating its tail forming a circle around a tree and crescent moon, placed on the centre of the chest.
Ouroboros with tree and moon on chest
Small black botanical tree tattoo with leafy branches on the back of a person's neck, below dark hair.
Small tree tattoo on the nape of the neck
Black ink compass rose tattoo with N, E, S and W points on the upper chest near the collarbone, in a geometric style with dotwork detail.
Compass rose on upper chest
Close photo of a fine line black tattoo on the inner arm, showing a vertical line with a looped knot motif and small dots at each end.
Fine line knot and dots on inner arm
Small black fine line tattoo of a pine tree inside a thin circle on the inner upper arm, with a red and white striped sleeve and brick wall behind.
Pine tree in a circle on an inner arm
Black and grey lotus flower with fine mandala detailing and dotted lines above and below, on the upper back of a woman with a short brown bob.
Lotus flower on upper back
Fine line black compass rose merged with an atom diagram, tattooed centrally on the upper back below the neck.
Compass and atom tattoo on upper back
Black fine line tattoo of a small sun with a face and rays, placed between the shoulder blades on a woman's upper back.
Small sun with face on upper back
Close-up of a fine line black unalome style tattoo with dots and a spiral, placed centrally on the chest between the breasts.
Fine line spiral design on chest

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