Sun tattoo ideas

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Traditional style tattoo of a striped teepee, red sun, cactus and stars on a lower leg, with bold black outlines and red and yellow fills.
Teepee and desert scene on a calf
Traditional style tattoo of a cabin with a smoking chimney, pine trees, a low sun and a red flower on the calf.
Cabin scene with pines and flower on a calf
Black and grey dotwork tattoo on a calf showing a column of planets with Saturn, dotted orbit arcs, and a surreal face with roots below.
Planets and orbits with a surreal face on a calf
Back view of both legs with a black and grey woodcut-style tattoo of a sailing ship on the sea beneath clouds and sunrays, running from the thighs to the calves, in a Blackwork style.
Woodcut-style ship scene on both legs
Two legs in a bath covered in traditional style tattoos of red roses, a skull, a bicycle, a sun and a mask, on the thighs and calves.
Traditional leg sleeve with roses and skulls
Black and grey engraved tattoo of a sailing ship in a bottle with waves and a sun, on the calf.
Ship in a bottle on the calf
Black ink tattoo of sailing ships, clouds and a rising sun with engraved-style sea lines, covering the thighs and calves of both legs.
Sailing ships and sunrise across both legs
Black and grey realism tattoo on a lower leg showing a Roman numeral clock face in front of a pyramid, with birds flying through clouds above and scrollwork below.
Clock, pyramid and birds on a lower leg
Black linework tattoo of a desert sunrise, cacti and mountains with bands of solid black, across the back of both calves.
Desert landscape across both calves
Black bare-branched trees framing a green ringed sun with a red centre and red rabbits, tattooed on a calf.
Trees and rabbits on a calf
Colourful watercolour-style sun tattoo in yellow, purple and turquoise with swirling ornament on the calf.
Watercolour sun on a calf
Two traditional colour tattoos side by side on a leg, a smiling sun with a face on the left and a teal crescent moon with a face on the right, both with a dotted chain and gemstone pendant below.
Paired sun and moon tattoos on legs
Dotwork solar system tattoo wrapping a lower leg, with a sun with a red-orange centre near the knee and shaded planets, including Saturn, on orbit lines.
Solar system with sun on a lower leg
Colour tattoo of a blue anime-style character inside a yellow card frame labelled The Rain, sitting on the lower leg.
Anime-style Rain card tattoo on a lower leg
Overhead photo of black and grey blackwork tattoos on a thigh and calf, including a skull with a sun motif and a mandala, with henna and gold temporary designs on a hand.
Black and grey mandala and skull tattoos on legs
Black script lettering reading The sun will rise and we will try again across the back of a leg, above the knee.
Script quote on the back of a leg
Traditional style tattoo on the lower leg of a palm tree, red hibiscus, waves and the words Endless Holiday, with a sailing ship running down the shin, photographed on a beach.
Palm tree and ship on the lower leg
Back of two lower legs with black and grey blackwork tattoos on the calves, one showing a rising sun over hills and a tower, the other a striped hot air balloon above clouds.
Sun and hot air balloon on both calves
Dotwork meerkat standing on a wireframe cube with a red sun behind it, tattooed on a calf and partly coloured with multicolour squares.
Meerkat on a cube on a calf
Traditional style tattoos of red roses, a panther head and a sun with a face cover the thigh and calf of a person's legs, with a small tattoo on one finger.
Traditional roses, panther and sun on legs
Colour tattoo of cartoon characters, including a figure in a top hat and a small figure with a black bob, in a bold illustrative style on a calf.
Cartoon characters under an umbrella on a calf
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of two hands framing a sun, crescent moon and planets, placed on a calf.
Two hands, sun and planets on a calf
Colour Japanese-style cherry blossom branch tattoo with red blossoms, a black sun and flying birds, running from the ankle up the lower leg.
Cherry blossom branch and sun on an ankle
Black and grey fine line botanical ornament with stars and a sun motif on the calf, shown in a black and white photo.
Botanical ornament on a lower leg
Black and grey dotwork yin yang tattoo on a calf, with a ringed planet and galaxy swirl on one side and a sun, birds and mountains on the other.
Yin yang with sun, mountains and planet
Colour traditional-style tattoo of the state of Texas on a calf, showing a red sunset, mountains, water and a red and teal tent.
Texas outline with sunset and tent on a calf
Two colour tattoos side by side on a limb: a geometric wolf head with a crescent moon on the left and a geometric stag head with antlers on the right, in a neo-traditional style.
Geometric wolf and stag side by side
Two black fine line tattoos on the backs of a person's legs, an ornate crescent moon on the left calf and a sun mandala on the right calf, with a small elephant outline on the right ankle.
Crescent moon and sun mandala on calves
Two raised legs in black platform sandals show traditional tattoos of red roses, a skull and a sun on the thighs and calves, against floral wallpaper.
Traditional tattoos across both legs
Black and grey raven with an eye on its wing, perched on tree roots that run down the calf, in a traditional style tattoo.
Raven with eye and roots on a calf
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a pizza slice with a green eye and pepperoni spots, placed on the lower leg with a small X tattoo beside it.
Pizza slice with eye on a calf
Traditional style tattoo of a log cabin with smoking chimney, pine trees and a red sun, with a red flower below, on the calf.
Log cabin and pine trees on a calf
Colour Japanese style tattoo of a katana over blue waves and orange sun shapes on the calf, shown in three views.
Katana and waves on a calf
Colour traditional tattoo of a cactus in a striped pot on a lower leg, with a red flower and blue blossoms below it.
Potted cactus and flowers on a lower leg
Realism leg tattoos on a pair of calves, with a sun and falcon-headed figure on the left leg and a moon and jackal-headed figure on the right.
Sun and moon leg tattoos with Egyptian deities
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
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 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
Colourful neo-traditional tattoo of a sunrise over green hills and a tree, framed by golden vines with blue and purple flowers, on a lower leg.
Sunrise landscape with flowers on a calf
Back view of two legs with black blackwork tattoos forming a cathedral skyline, striped sun and arched bridge across the thighs and knees.
Black landscape design across both thighs and knees
Fine line black crescent moon tattoo on one calf beside a black sun tattoo on a second calf, in a sepia photograph.
Moon and sun on two calves
Two photographs of matching black and grey tattoos on a pair of calves, each showing a sextant, orbit lines and a sun face in an engraved sketch style.
Sextant and sun tattoo on both calves
Black tribal tattoo on a calf showing a stylised face within bands of triangles, spirals and geometric patterns.
Tribal face and pattern calf tattoo
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a hot air balloon with a sun face on the calf, with clouds and a small figure in the basket.
Hot air balloon with sun face on a calf
Neo-traditional tattoo of a pine cone and pine needles in orange, brown and red with bold black outlines, on the calf.
Pine cone and needles on a calf
Black tribal tattoo covering a lower leg, with a central spiral motif, bold geometric shapes and a band around the ankle, shown in blackwork style on the calf.
Black tribal calf tattoo with spiral centrepiece
Woman in a floral crop top and skirt showing black and grey tattoos of roses and a sun on her thighs and calves.
Rose and sun tattoos on legs
Traditional style colour tattoo of a grim reaper holding a scythe in front of an orange sun, on the calf.
Grim reaper with scythe on a calf