Realistic colour tattoo of a yellow rose with green leaves and stem on a woman's upper arm near the shoulder.

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Yellow rose tattoo on a shoulder

Realism · Upper arm · Colour · Photo

A yellow rose with soft pink and orange shading sits on the upper arm, with a long stem and three green leaves extending down towards the elbow. The petals use smooth colour gradients and fine detail to show depth, and the leaves are shaded in dark and mid greens. The woman is photographed from behind against a plain grey-blue backdrop, with the tattoo as the clear focus.

Realism Botanical Upper arm Shoulder Rose Leaves Stem Flower

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nobody at Hollins Lane believed the yellow would take. Old Mr Teague had sent to Lyon for the cutting, and it came up the platform at Ely in a tin lined with damp moss, looking like a dead twig with a label tied to it. He grafted it onto dog rose stock in March, bound the union with raffia, and then sat on an upturned crate beside it every evening with his pipe unlit, as if the thing might be shamed into flowering.

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The first bloom came in June, a single bud the colour of weak tea that opened over three days. Teague cut it at dawn and carried it to the back step where his wife kept the kettle. She said it smelled of lemon drops and nonsense. He said nothing. He only turned the stem so the sun caught the apricot at its heart, then went in and wrote a letter to the nursery that began with the words I have been wrong about most things.

By the following spring there were eleven bushes along the south wall, and the village had stopped calling it foolishness. His daughter took cuttings for the church fête. The vicar asked for one for the altar. Nobody asked how a rose from France had survived a Fenland January, and Teague never told them that it had lived only because he slept in the glasshouse for a fortnight, feeding it warm water from a kettle every hour.

When he died the next autumn, they found the pipe still on the crate and a note pinned to the potting bench. Water them at dusk, not noon, it said. They sulk if you hurry them. Underneath, in smaller capitals, he had added: THE YELLOW IS THE HARD PART. ANYONE CAN GROW RED.