Small red queen of hearts and king of hearts tattoos on the side of two touching fingers, in a simple lettering style.

Queen and king of hearts on two fingers

Lettering · Hand · Colour · Photo

Two fingers pressed together show a small tattoo on each: a serif letter Q with a solid heart beneath it on the left, and a serif letter K with a solid heart above it on the right, mirroring playing card styling. The letters and hearts are filled in solid red with clean edges and no shading. The close-up composition is set against a plain pale background, with the fingers and tattoos filling most of the frame.

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

The storm kept the boats in Ardvane harbour for nine days, and by the fourth the men had played every game they knew. Morag Lennie, who sold thread and tinned milk from the shop above the slipway, kept a pack of cards in a tin box under the counter. Its paper had gone soft as cloth from handling, and two cards were missing.

Keep reading

Those were the king and queen of hearts. Morag had painted every card herself, copying the serif letters from an old almanac, but she had run out of red. Madder root and rowan berries boiled in her copper pot gave a brown that bled at the edges, so the pair stayed in the tin.

Ailsa Dunn, who mended nets with her grandmother's bone needle, came to the shop and asked for the ink. Dugald Reid, who had carried peat up the hill since he was small, came the same afternoon and asked for it too. Morag would not give it to either of them without the other. She said a heart painted for one person is only a letter, and a heart painted for two is a promise, and she would not put a lie on paper in her own shop.

So Ailsa and Dugald sat either side of the stove on the ninth night and pressed their forefingers together. Morag worked with one fine brush, the Q on his finger and the K on hers, and the red dried dark and clean. When the wind dropped the boats went out, and the two fingers were still touching when they came back. Morag kept the tin. On wet mornings the card players of Ardvane still tell it the way it was told to them: the king's heart sits above the queen's, and the queen's sits below, so that each can read the other whole.

More like this

Close-up of a clenched hand with four small finger tattoos of a black spade, a red heart, a black club and a red diamond.
Playing card suit tattoos across four fingers
Four arms meet in the centre of the frame, each with a small black playing card suit tattoo on the forearm near the wrist: an outlined diamond, a solid club, a solid spade and an outlined heart.
Four playing card suit tattoos on wrists
Black and white photo of four wrists held together, each with a small solid black playing card suit tattoo: a spade, a heart, a club and a diamond, on the forearm near the wrist.
Four playing card suit tattoos on wrists
Four small fine line playing card suit tattoos, a diamond, club, spade and heart, on the wrists of four arms linked together in the centre of the frame.
Four playing card suit tattoos on wrists
Four small black playing card suit tattoos, a spade, heart, club and diamond, on the wrists of clasped hands, with a metal bangle and a woven bracelet nearby.
Four playing card suit tattoos on wrists
Black and white photo of two small fine line rune tattoos on the side of two fingers, one a chevron shape and one a cross-barred symbol.
Two small rune tattoos on fingers
Black and white photo of two clasped hands, each showing a small fine line geometric triangle tattoo with a circle on a finger.
Matching triangle tattoos on two fingers
Close-up of two hands held together, with a small fine line black letter K and heart on one finger and a heart and letter on the next, placed on the fingers.
Letters and hearts on two fingers
Two small matching black fine line heart outline tattoos, one on a finger and one on the back of a hand, in a sepia photograph.
Matching heart symbol tattoos on two hands
Black and grey photo of four small wrist tattoos of playing card suits, a diamond, club, spade and heart, with the wrists pressed together in the centre.
Playing card suit wrist tattoos
Close-up of two hands, with a small black crown, letter K and spade tattoo on one finger and a small red outlined symbol tattoo on the neighbouring finger.
Crown, letter and spade tattoos on fingers
Two hands touch at the fingertips, each showing a matching small black ornamental symbol tattooed on the finger.
Matching ornamental symbol tattoos on two fingers

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