Black and grey script lettering tattoo of a verse with the reference Psalms 3:5, running diagonally along the side of a foot near the ankle.

Script verse tattoo on a foot

Lettering · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A black-and-white photograph of a long line of cursive script tattooed diagonally across the side of a foot near the ankle. The lettering has fine, even linework in solid black ink, and the final line reads as a verse reference, Psalms 3:5. The pale skin and dark background give the text strong contrast and keep the composition centred on the tattoo.

Lettering Fine line Ankle Script Psalm Quote Lettering

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 letters were all Mr Adeyemi had left, sixty years of pencilled notes on the backs of bus tickets and the margins of hymn sheets, and his wife wanted one line copied out exactly. I sat at her kitchen table on the fourteenth floor of Brackley House with a fine nib and a jar of black ink, while the lift outside groaned up and down like it had opinions of its own.

Keep reading

He had a loop on his capitals that leaned into the next word, as if each one was in a hurry to get home. I practised it on old newspaper until my wrist ached. Mrs Adeyemi watched without speaking, then made tea in a pot with a chipped spout and told me about the winter he had lain awake every night, listening to lorries on the ring road, too frightened to shut his eyes.

Psalm three, verse five, she said, tapping the page. I laid me down and slept; I awaked, for the Lord sustained me. He had read it aloud at the window every morning, she said, as though checking the building was still standing. I had to look away then, out past the car park to the grey sky over the estate.

When I finished, she held the sheet up to the light and was quiet for a long time. Then she asked whether the tail of the final e could curl a little more, the way his had, and I said yes, and bent over the paper again until it did.