Ray tattoo ideas

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Black outline tattoo of a spotted ray with grey shading and blue bubbles and water lines, on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Spotted ray and blue bubbles on the back
Painterly colour flower tattoo with a rainbow burst top, red petals and green leaves on the upper back, with a close-up of rainbow rays beside it.
Colourful flower tattoo on a shoulder blade
Traditional-style colour tattoo of a smiling sun with closed eyes and flame-like rays, placed on a person's back beside a purple patterned strap.
Smiling sun with closed eyes on back
Back of a woman with a grey and brown sun tattoo on the upper back, its wavy rays surrounded by swirling linework.
Sun with swirling tendrils on upper back
Colour tattoo of a sun and moon with two faces facing each other, in neo-traditional style, on the upper back near the neck.
Sun and moon faces on upper back
Colour sun tattoo with orange and yellow rays and a dark outline on a woman's upper back near the shoulder blade, in a traditional style.
Colour sun tattoo on upper back
Two women seen from behind with their arms around each other, one with a black fine line crescent moon on her upper back and the other with a black sun tattoo on her back.
Crescent moon and sun tattoos on two backs
Back view of a woman with her hair in a bun showing a small black fine line tattoo of a crescent moon, a sun with a face and another crescent moon stacked down the centre of the upper back.
Sun and crescent moons on upper back
Black line outline of a sun with a plain circle centre and flame-like rays, tattooed on the upper back between the shoulder blades.
Sun outline on upper back
Black and grey tattoo of an anatomical heart beneath a radiating all-seeing eye, with botanical sprigs, placed on the upper back.
Anatomical heart with eye and botanical sprigs on a back
Back tattoo of black and grey wildflowers in front of an orange watercolour-style sun, with fine radiating lines, small birds and a script banner across the upper back and shoulder.
Wildflowers and orange sun across the back
Black tribal sun tattoo with spiral centre and spiky rays, placed between the shoulder blades on a person's upper back.
Tribal sun tattoo on upper back
Black and grey tattoo of a lion and a second animal around a sunburst on a person's upper back, with their hair in a bun.
Lion and sun on upper back
Black and grey realistic manta ray tattoo shaded in detail across the upper back near the left shoulder blade.
Manta ray tattoo on upper back
Grey shaded tattoo of a sun with a face and crescent moon surrounded by rays and stars on a person's upper back, with small blue and purple accents.
Sun with a face and crescent moon on upper back
Black dotwork sun tattoo with a stippled centre and pointed rays, centred on the upper back.
Dotwork sun on upper back
Black and grey neo-traditional tattoo covering the full back and chest, with a Statue of Liberty portrait, a skull holding a torch, roses and a central religious figure.
Full back and chest black and grey tattoo
Realism style black and grey tattoo of a winged hourglass with rays, roses and diamonds across the upper back.
Winged hourglass with roses on upper back
Two black and grey tattoos side by side: a crescent moon with a face and hanging beaded chains, and a sun with a face, rays and beaded chains on the upper back.
Crescent moon and sun tattoos with chains
Close view of a solid black tribal-style sun tattoo with flame-like rays on the lower back, above a pair of blue jeans.
Sun tattoo on the lower back
Black blackwork sun with a solid filled centre and flame-like rays, tattooed on a woman's upper back beside the shoulder blade.
Black sun tattoo on a shoulder blade
Colour neo-trad style tattoo on a woman's upper back showing a shaded red apple held by black-and-grey hands, with orange sunburst rays and abstract stripes behind it.
Apple held in hands over a sunburst on the back
Black ink tattoo of a crescent moon with ornamental filigree and a sun with radiating points, placed on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Crescent moon and sun on upper back
Black fine line script reading You are my Sunshine with a small sun and rays, tattooed across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
You are my Sunshine script on the upper back
Black fine line tattoo of a small sun with a face and rays, placed between the shoulder blades on a woman's upper back.
Small sun with face on upper back
Back view of a person with long dreadlocks and a teal headwrap, showing a large black sun tattoo across the upper back and a butterfly tattoo on the shoulder.
Sun design across a back with butterfly on shoulder
Black and grey lettering tattoo on the lower back, showing a heart with a peace sign inside and a banner reading What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Heart and peace sign with banner on lower back
Black and grey pentagram set inside a sun with flame-like rays, with two small bat silhouettes, on the upper back near the neck.
Pentagram sun and bats on upper back
Back view of a woman with her hair up, showing a small black tribal-style sun with a spiral centre on her upper back, near the shoulder blade.
Small black sun tattoo on upper back
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a radiating sun with concentric circles, centred on the upper back.
Radiating sun on upper back
Black and grey tattoo of a sun with a face and a crescent moon on a woman's upper back, with the script words live your life above the right shoulder blade.
Sun and moon with script on upper back
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of The Moon tarot card across a person's upper back, showing a large solid black moon with rays.
The Moon tarot card across a back
Black linework tattoo of a sun with long wavy rays and a crescent moon, both with faces, across the upper back.
Sun and crescent moon with faces on upper back
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a bare tree with a dotted sun and birds in flight across the upper back.
Bare tree with birds and dotwork sun on a back
Traditional-style colour tattoo of a muscular bearded sea god holding a trident, with a red lightning bolt and stippled clouds, on a person's upper back.
Trident-holding sea god on upper back
Black and grey geometric tattoo of an eye inside a circle and diamond frame with radiating lines, on the upper back.
Eye within a geometric diamond on the upper back
Collage of eight sepia photographs of black fine line geometric tattoos with diamond, arrow and circle motifs on the forearm, upper arm, spine, ribs, neck and ankle.
Geometric line tattoos in a collage of eight
Two script lettering tattoos with small orange sun designs, one reading You are my sunshine on the upper back and one reading My only sunshine on the upper arm.
Matching sun and sunshine lyric tattoos
Purple plumeria flowers with a black-outlined sun and tribal bands tattooed across a person's upper back, photographed from behind.
Plumeria and sun on upper back
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of a sun with eight patterned rays and three outlined stars on a person's upper back.
Sun with rays and three stars on upper back
Black and grey blackwork sun tattoo with a human face and long rays, placed centrally on a person's upper back.
Sun with face tattoo on upper back
Black and grey tattoo of a winged crest with a sword and a triangle, sitting on the upper back between the shoulder blades.
Hylian crest on upper back
Solid black sun tattoo with wavy rays and a thin outlined centre on the upper back near the shoulder blade, in a blackwork style.
Black sun tattoo on upper back
Brown linework sun with a face, swirling rays and small stars on the upper back of a woman with her hair up, in a fine line style.
Sun with face and stars on upper back