Sun tattoo ideas

977 photos and flash · 28% Fine line, 17% Dotwork · Forearm most common

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Traditional style tattoos across a woman's back and upper arm, including a large butterfly, a red rose and a spider web.
Traditional back and arm sleeve
Traditional tattoo sleeve on the upper arm showing a mermaid holding a bouquet, a red heart, pink roses, a skull and a blue rose, outlined in black.
Mermaid and heart sleeve on upper arm
Pencil-style drawing of a tree of life inside a circle, with a sun on the left and a crescent moon on the right, shown as a black and grey tattoo design.
Tree of life with sun and moon design
Black and grey dotwork and linework tattoo of a desert scene with saguaro cacti and mountains inside a circle on a calf.
Desert scene with saguaro cacti on a calf
Small black fine line mandala tattoo with a sun-like centre and radiating spokes on the inner ankle, with yellow flat shoes in the frame.
Small black mandala on an ankle
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of an anchor over stippled sea waves and a rising sun, set inside a diamond shape on the upper arm.
Anchor and sea waves in a diamond
Black line flash sheet of five designs: a sun and moon, a paisley swirl, a round geometric mandala, a crescent moon with zigzags and a large mandala sun, with no body placement shown.
Sun, moon and mandala flash sheet
Traditional style tattoo of a black and grey spider web with a yellow sun and black star motifs, placed over the elbow.
Spider web and sun on the elbow
Colourful abstract swirl tattoo with an orange circle at the centre, in soft painterly strokes of blue, yellow, orange and green, on the outer forearm.
Colourful swirl on a forearm
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
Traditional colour tattoo on a forearm showing a grey castle under an orange sun, a sealed envelope with a red wax seal, a winged golden ball, calla lilies and red flowers.
Castle, sealed envelope and winged ball on a forearm
Black and grey photo of a woman's bare upper back with a sunburst and a vertical column of planetary symbols tattooed beside the spine.
Sun and planetary symbols down a back
Solid black flash design of a flaming sun with wavy rays surrounding a pentagram inside a circle, shown without any body placement.
Flaming sun with pentagram design
Colour Japanese style tattoo of a folding fan showing Mount Fuji and a red sun, surrounded by pink cherry blossom flowers and falling petals, with a pink ribbon, on the back.
Fan with Mount Fuji and cherry blossom
Black and grey tattoo of a globe on a stand with a city skyline, an arch and birds in the sky, shown on a limb.
Globe with city skyline tattoo
Two side-by-side photos of black ink tattoos: a sun with rays on the left and a small crescent moon on the right, both on the side of the torso.
Sun and crescent moon on the side body
Black ink swallow in a traditional style flying above a rayed sun and wavy lines, tattooed on the forearm.
Swallow over sun and waves on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a pentagram inside a circle with sun rays, crossed stakes and a lantern-style object, on the side of the ribs.
Pentagram and sun emblem on the side ribs
Colour realism tattoo of two small songbirds perched on pink plum blossom branches over a soft orange circle, on the calf.
Two songbirds on plum blossom on a calf
Black and grey fine line tattoo of the sun and a row of planets, including ringed Saturn, running along the inner forearm with small stars and dotted trails.
Solar system sequence on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a yellow outlined sun with a purple wash and swirling vine linework on the side of the torso.
Yellow sun with purple wash
Colour dotwork tattoo of a shaded skull with a black sun and rainbow dot halo, placed on the chest.
Dotwork skull with rainbow halo
Hand-drawn lettering design reading Harry, Hermione and Ron in flowing script, with a lightning bolt, crown, glasses and small star doodles, drawn in brown ink on a sepia background.
Harry, Hermione and Ron name lettering design
Black tower silhouette with a red sun, two birds, a small cloaked figure and a red rose tattooed on an upper arm.
Tower silhouette with red sun and rose on upper arm
Black and grey mandala, flower and sun tattoos across a woman's thighs, with a hand holding half a coconut in front of them.
Mandala and flower thigh tattoos
Black linework flash design of a crescent moon and sun with sleeping faces, set within a mandala and hanging feathers, drawn on pale paper.
Crescent moon and sun mandala design
Black fine line script reading Here comes the sun across the upper back between the shoulder blades, with a woman in a swimsuit facing away against a turquoise background.
Script lettering across upper back
Black ink drawing in a dotwork and fine line style of the state of Oregon filled with mountains, pine trees and a sun with dotted rays, on a cream background.
Oregon outline with mountains, pines and sun
Seven black and white feather line drawings, several filled with dotted, swirled and sun-like patterns, shown as possible blackwork tattoo designs with no body placement visible.
Seven ornamental and plain feather designs
Flash sheet of four traditional-style portraits of princesses, each with a red banner bearing a name, set against a cream background.
Four princess portraits with name banners in traditional
Black and grey dotwork tattoo on a thigh of a circular mountain, pine tree and river scene framed by laurel leaves and a flower.
Mountain landscape and flower on a thigh
Black and grey sun and moon tattoos on the forearms of a man in a seersucker waistcoat, gingham shirt and mustard bow tie.
Sun and moon tattoos on forearms
Black and grey pen drawing of a yin yang symbol with a rayed sun, crescent moon, swirling clouds and waves, presented as a tattoo design.
Yin yang with sun and moon
Two fine line script tattoos in black ink on forearms, one reading my sun and stars and the other reading moon of my life, with a dark fuzzy cuff at the lower wrist.
Matching script quotes on two forearms
Black and grey dotwork palm tree tattoo with birds and a sunset over the sea on an upper arm, beside a bold grey cloud outline and coloured tattoo edges.
Palm tree and sunset on an upper arm
Black and grey flash sheet of twelve pagan symbols labelled in white text, including a pentagram, triskelle, crescent moon, green man and raven.
Pagan designs flash sheet
Black and grey tattoo of a sun with a face, a crescent moon and hanging feathers, styled in a traditional manner, on a forearm.
Sun, moon and dreamcatcher on a forearm
Black tribal blackwork tattoo with a central sun motif wrapping the calf and ankle of a leg against a dark background.
Tribal calf and ankle tattoo
Black and white photo of two ankles, one with a fine line sun tattoo and the other with a fine line crescent moon tattoo, both on the ankle.
Sun and moon tattoos on two ankles
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
Coloured drawing of a ram skull with grey horns, a red gemstone eye set in pearls, red roses and leaves, and an orange sun behind, in a neo-traditional style.
Ram skull with roses and a rising sun
Black and grey traditional tattoo of two swallows over a sun with rays and a flower, on the back of a hand.
Two swallows and a sun on the back of a hand
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading Radiant as the sun, photographed on skin against a pale background.
Script quote reading Radiant as the sun
Black tribal flash design of a sun with a spiral centre and an eight-pointed star behind it, shown as a solid black stencil-style drawing.
Tribal sun and star design
Two colour tattoos on a person's thighs: a ribcage wrapped in orange and blue flowers on the left, and an anatomical heart filled with a forest and sunset landscape on the right, in a neo-traditional
Ribcage with flowers and a landscape heart on thighs
Fine line black tattoo of a palm tree, birds and a low sun on an ankle, with a grey knotted heeled shoe below.
Palm tree and birds on an ankle
Fine line black tattoo of a snowflake, an outlined teardrop and a small sun in a row on the inner forearm.
Snowflake, drop and sun on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a tree with a serene carved face, glowing heart, sun, moon and mushrooms on an upper arm, in a surreal botanical style.
Tree spirit with roots and celestial scene on upper arm