Swallow tattoo ideas

650 photos and flash · 46% Traditional, 20% Fine line · Forearm most common

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Black and grey drawing of an anatomical heart wrapped in ribbon banners reading shipwrecked bones carry my seasick heart home, with two swallows, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Anatomical heart with ribbon lettering
Black and grey flash sheet drawing of a sailing ship on waves, two swallows, an anchor and a telescope, with the script phrase Between the Devil and the deep blue Sea beneath.
Sailing ship, swallows, anchor and telescope flash
Black ink flash design of two birds and the lettering I am flawed if I'm not free, with swirling flourishes, shown on a white background.
Two birds and quote lettering design
Traditional flash sheet of a swallow, an alphabet, a red rose, two hearts with banners, flowers and nautical stars, drawn in red, green, yellow and black ink.
Traditional flash sheet with swallow and roses
Traditional flash sheet with the words NO MONEY NO TATTOO, a swallow, a lighthouse, falling coins, a clasped handshake on a striped sleeve, an anchor and shears in the corners.
No money no tattoo flash sheet
Black silhouette flash design of two swallows in flight above the words we only part to meet again, in a serif typeface on a white background.
Two swallows above a quote
Black ink drawing of a swallow above a speech-bubble shape containing the handwritten quote about desire and fire, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Swallow and quote design on paper
Black line drawing design of a script quote reading I think i'll miss you forever like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky, with silhouetted birds, shown on a white background.
Script quote with flying birds
Black and grey traditional tattoo designs printed on a white sweatshirt, including swallows over a clasped-hands heart, a rose with a banner, a stag and an anchor.
Tattoo designs printed on a white sweatshirt
Black flash design of two swallows in flight above the words we only part to meet again, set in black lettering on white.
Two swallows above a quote
Hand-drawn tattoo design in red pen on lined paper, showing the words let it be in flowing script with three small birds beside it, with no body placement shown.
Let it be script with three red birds
Black handwritten script reading she laughs without fear of the future, with a small swallow silhouette, drawn as a tattoo design on a cream background.
Script quote with a swallow design
A grid of cross stitch chart designs in traditional tattoo flash style, including swallows, hearts, roses, a pin-up, a cherry pair and lettering, on a grey background.
Sheet of cross stitch tattoo-style flash designs
Black script reading have courage and be kind above a small black silhouette of a swallow in flight, on a plain white background.
Have courage and be kind script with swallow
Sepia drawing of a swallow in flight beside cursive script reading and in time, this too shall pass.
Swallow in flight with cursive quote
Black ink flowing script reading Love never fails, with small birds perched and flying among the letters, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Love never fails script lettering design
Black cursive lettering reading Stay Strong with small blue watercolour swallows flying across it on a plain grey background.
Stay Strong script with blue swallows