Ocean tattoo ideas

186 photos and flash · 24% Realism, 24% Fine line · Forearm most common

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Black and white photo of two pairs of clasped hands showing matching fine-line Roman numeral lettering VIII IV XII on the inner wrists, with a beach and sea behind.
Roman numeral wrist tattoos on a beach
Fine line heart tattoo with small script on the upper arm of a woman with her back to the camera, facing the sea at dusk.
Heart with script on upper arm
Fine line black script reading "It is well with my soul" runs vertically down the centre of a woman's back, seen from behind on a beach.
Script quote down the spine
Black script lettering reading Listen to the ocean on a pale blue background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Listen to the ocean script lettering
Black script lettering reading Let the Ocean take me across a forearm, with smaller script tattoos visible on the upper chest.
Script quote reading Let the Ocean take me on a forearm
Hand-lettered navy script reading 'the ocean cures all' stacked over three lines on a white background, a lettering design suitable as a tattoo stencil.
The ocean cures all lettering design
Blue Japanese-inspired wave tattoo with a handwritten quote on the inner forearm, reading You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Blue wave and quote on a forearm
Black script lettering tattoo on an upper arm reading: our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean.
Wave quote lettering on an upper arm
Black fine line tattoo of a curling wave flowing into the words into the sea in script, on the side of a foot near the ankle.
Wave and script reading into the sea on ankle
Black and grey hand-lettered tattoo flash design of an anchor with rope and the words If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land, drawn on a sketchbook page, with no body part shown.
Anchor with hand-lettered quote design
Black script lettering tattoo on the upper arm reading 'our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean'.
Quote about a wave and the ocean on the upper arm
Fine line handwritten script reading palm trees, ocean breeze, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Palm trees, ocean breeze script
Black script lettering on an arm reads 'Our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean', in a lettering style.
Wave quote lettering on an arm