Three small black bird silhouettes in fine line style on the outer elbow of a raised arm, with a rolled denim sleeve.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Three small birds on an elbow

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

Three small black bird silhouettes are tattooed in a cluster on the outer elbow and upper forearm of a raised arm. The birds have simple, solid outlines with no shading, and the ink is a dark black. The pale arm sits against a cream textured background, with a rolled denim sleeve and long reddish hair at the left edge 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

Now, sit closer to the range, because the cold gets into a story the same way it gets into a man's knees. My grandfather kept the Hallam farm above the reservoir, and the winter he lost the last of his ewes, three starlings came down out of a sky the colour of lead and sat on the gate post as if they'd been sent to inspect him.

Keep reading

He didn't care for birds. Starlings ate the seed he'd put by for the spring drill, and he said so, loud enough for the hens to hear. But on the morning the thaw began, the three of them lifted off the post together, wheeled once over the byre and went straight up into the murmuration, and he stood in the yard with the pitchfork in his hand and watched until his eyes ran.

Here is the part they don't tell you in the pub. When the ground softened, he walked the top field with a lantern and found the lost lamb alive under the hedge, shivering but whole, and beside it lay three small black feathers, laid in a neat row like a message. He never said who he thought had sent them. He only ever said, when anyone asked why he'd stopped swearing at that gate, that some things come back in threes, and you'd do well to leave the gate open.

More like this

Small black fine line palm tree tattoo on the upper arm of a woman seen from behind, with long brown hair and a white top.
Small palm tree tattoo on upper arm
Small solid black mermaid silhouette with two tiny fish below it, tattooed on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Mermaid silhouette on the inner wrist
Small fine line tattoo of three arrows in dark ink with reddish fletching on a woman's forearm, below a grey sleeve and beside long loose hair.
Three arrows on a forearm
Black and grey vintage-style tattoos of sewing tools, including a thimble, scissors, pin cushion and dress form, on a woman's forearm.
Sewing tools tattoos on a forearm
Close photo of a fine line black script tattoo reading Smile on the side of a woman's ribcage, with her arm raised.
Fine line Smile script on the side ribs
Small solid black mermaid silhouette with two fish tattooed on the inner wrist and forearm.
Mermaid silhouette on the inner wrist
Small fine line black dandelion tattoo with seeds blowing away, on the back of a hand near a dark zipped bag.
Dandelion with drifting seeds on a hand
Solid black mermaid silhouette with two small fish silhouettes trailing below, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Mermaid silhouette and fish on a wrist
Small fine line tattoo of three arrows in pink, teal and dark ink on the forearm of a person with long blonde hair, wearing a grey sleeve.
Three arrows on a forearm
Four small solid black bird silhouettes in a diagonal row on a woman's inner forearm, with a white lace top behind.
Four birds flying on a forearm
Fine line black tattoo of a dandelion whose seeds drift into small birds across the inner forearm.
Dandelion seeds turning into birds on wrist
Black silhouette tattoo of three small birds in flight on the inner wrist, in a black and white photo of a hand raised near a knit hat.
Three small birds on a wrist

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