Colour realism tattoo of a sunflower with green leaves on the upper arm.

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Realistic sunflower tattoo on the upper arm

Realism · Upper arm · Colour · Photo

A large sunflower with glowing yellow and orange petals and a detailed brown centre sits across the arm, with two green leaves curving down from its base. The petals are shaded with soft gradients and fine vein-like detail on the leaves, giving a lifelike, dimensional look. The flower fills most of the frame against the skin, with a pale blue background wash behind it and a silver surface visible at the edges.

Realism Botanical Upper arm Sunflower Flower Petal Leaf Leaves

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mrs Varley has sent you out to the back wall with a bucket and a pair of kitchen scissors, which is how you know she has made up her mind about the sunflowers. The boarding house at Shingle Cove has eleven rooms, one bathroom that knocks in the pipes, and a garden that faces the wrong way. For three summers the flowers she planted along the flint wall have turned their heads toward the sea, ignoring the kitchen window where she would prefer them to look.

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You came for a fortnight in August and stayed because the brass tide clock in the hall had stopped, and nobody else wanted the job of winding it. Most evenings you paint the flowers as the light goes gold across the tarred fence and the sea turns the colour of pewter. Mrs Varley stands behind your shoulder and says the big one by the gate is showing off. You tell her it is only doing what it was planted to do, which is follow the light, even when the light is leaving.

The letter from the council comes on a Tuesday. The house is to be sold before the frosts, and the boarders are already packing their wicker trunks and their damp swimming costumes. On the last evening you cut the largest head from the wall, its seeds dark and dense as a bishop's buttons, and carry it indoors. You set it on the hall table beside the stopped clock and pin a note to its stem.

Next morning the flower has been moved. Someone has propped it against the kitchen window, face turned inward, looking at the sink and the kettle and the woman who never once managed to make it face the right way. The clock is still stopped. Neither of you has wound it.