Colour realism tattoo of a red rose with aged, browned petal edges and green leaves, placed on the upper chest.

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Realistic red rose on the chest

Realism · Chest · Colour · Photo

A large red rose with deep petals curling outwards, the outer edges shaded to look aged and browned, with a small droplet resting on one petal. Smooth shading and fine detail give the petals a soft, lifelike three-dimensional form. Green leaves sit behind the bloom against darker background shading, and a partly visible tattoo of red and orange tones appears at the lower right edge of the frame.

Realism Chest Rose Petal Leaves

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down, sit down, the cake will keep, and so will this. Our Ruth cut that rose herself on her wedding morning in 1952, from the bush by the coal shed, because the florist in Hexham had sent up nothing but carnations and she would not walk up the aisle smelling of a funeral. It was the last bloom of the year. Frost had been on the windows since Michaelmas, and that rose came out of it stubborn and red as a pillar box, with dew still sitting in its cup when she pinned it to her coat.

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Walter kept it pressed in the back of the hymnal for sixty years. Every anniversary he'd open the book at the Psalms and there it was, gone brown at the edges like old paper, the creases running across the petals like a map of somewhere nobody has been. He never once threw it away. He said a thing that kept its shape through a whole marriage deserved to be looked at.

The dew was the trouble. Ruth swore it never dried. She'd wipe the hymnbook with her thumb and say the drop was still there, cool as the morning it came from, and Walter would nod and say, aye, love, and go on pouring the tea. When he died the book came to me. I opened it at the Psalms, and the rose was there, and on the outermost petal sat a bead of water, small and round and perfectly clear.

So when you've had your speeches, pour the tea and look at each other the way Walter looked at her. Go on. The cake will keep.