Black and grey fine line tattoo of two swallows perched on a branch, placed on the inner wrist beneath a dark sleeve.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Two swallows on a branch on the wrist

Fine line · Other · Black and grey · Photo

Two small birds, likely swallows, sit side by side on a thin bare branch. The linework is fine and the feathers are shaded with soft grey tones and dark accents on the wings and tails. The piece is in black ink on a pale wrist, with a dark sleeve and blurred dark background framing it.

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

By three in the morning Ward 7 had settled into its usual hum of drips and far-off trolley wheels, and Agnes Pryce had taken her tea to the stairwell window, where the car park lamps threw orange light onto the wet tarmac. Two swallows had built a mud nest under the guttering above the bins that week. She had watched them come and go all through her breaks, one always sitting on the wire while the other worked.

Keep reading

In bed four, Mr Heald had woken and asked her what time it was, then what the birds were doing. He had farmed near Thorne for forty years before his chest gave out, and he could tell a swallow from a martin with his eyes shut. Agnes told him the one on the wire was keeping watch. He said the wire was a poor perch for it and that they should have a proper branch, the way his mother had kept a pear tree with two nests in it, and he drifted off before she could answer.

At six the sky turned the colour of dishwater. Agnes went back to the window and saw the nearer bird lift off the gutter and settle on the bare wire, then the second bird followed and landed close beside it, close enough that their tails almost touched. She stood there with her cold tea until the handover bell went, and when she came out through the automatic doors at seven they were still there, two dark shapes on the fence, and then they were gone together over the rooftops.

More like this

Black and grey swallow tattoo in a traditional style on the forearm of a light-skinned arm, shown in flight against a pale background.
Swallow tattoo on a forearm
Fine line black hummingbird tattoo with a curled tail flourish on a forearm, photographed against a pale background.
Hummingbird tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of a crow perched on a thin branch that wraps around the inner wrist.
Crow perched on a branch on a wrist
Small black and grey fine line tattoo of a sitting sloth on the forearm, shaded in soft grey tones.
Small sloth on a forearm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a hovering hummingbird with dotted shading on the inner upper arm.
Hummingbird on an upper arm
Close photo of a fine line tattoo of three teal birds perched on a black branch across the upper arm.
Three teal birds perched on a branch
Small black silhouette tattoo of a flock of birds flying in a line across the inner forearm, in fine line style.
Flock of birds on the inner forearm
Black fine line tattoo of a feather quill with a trailing line and small dots on the inner wrist, photographed against a green background.
Feather quill on the inner wrist
Black fine line tattoo of a heron in flight with dotwork shading, placed on the inner forearm.
Flying heron on a forearm
Fine line black tattoo of two otters holding hands on the outside of an ankle, above a brown boat shoe.
Two otters holding hands on an ankle
Black and grey realism tattoo of two birds perched on a bare branch, placed on a woman's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Two birds on a branch across a shoulder blade
Small fine line outline tattoo of a smiling ghost in black ink on the inner wrist.
Small ghost tattoo on the inner wrist

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