Wood tattoo ideas

33 photos and flash · 27% Traditional, 21% Realism · Forearm most common

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Traditional style anchor flash design with a wooden stock, coiled rope and red flowers with green leaves, shown on a plain white background.
Anchor with rope and red flowers
Black and grey drawing of a skull wrapped in octopus tentacles with a ship's anchor behind it, shown as a design on a dark background.
Skull, anchor and tentacles design
Black and grey Traditional style tattoo of a wooden cross with a crucifix and a banner reading PHILIPPIANS, with 4:13 beside it, on the upper arm.
Wooden cross with banner and scripture reference
Black and grey realism tattoo of wood grain with knots and stippled dotwork shading across a forearm, resting on a white paper-covered surface.
Wood grain tattoo on a forearm
Small black fine line tattoo of a nut and bolt on the inner forearm of a hand holding a wooden skateboard against a pink background.
Nut and bolt tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey line drawing of an anchor wrapped in rope, with headphones, a microphone and audio cables hanging from it, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Anchor with headphones and microphone
Pencil flash drawing of two owls perched on a branch with leaves, in a neo-traditional style, shown without a body placement.
Two owls on a branch design
Two hands rest on a wooden tree stump, each with a small black tattoo on the ring finger.
Small finger tattoos on two hands
Two hands resting on a weathered wooden log, each showing a small black tattoo on a finger of the hand.
Two hands with small finger tattoos on wood
Black and grey realism tattoo of wood grain with knots and flowing rings, shown on a forearm resting on a paper-covered table.
Wood grain tattoo on a forearm
Painted traditional-style peony with green leaves on a bark-edged wooden slice, shown against a grey wall.
Traditional peony painted on a wooden slice
Small black and grey fine line tattoo of an axe lodged in a chopping block on a forearm.
Axe in a chopping block on a forearm
Watercolour-style drawing of a tattoo design showing an anchor wrapped in rope, with a death's-head hawkmoth, two compasses, lightning flags and two revolvers.
Anchor with moth, compasses and revolvers
Black script lettering of a poem verse tattooed across the ribs on a side of the torso, in a lettering style.
Poem verse in script across the ribs
Black and grey realistic tattoo of a weathered wooden cross with a ribbon banner reading To Live Is Christ in script, on the upper arm.
Wooden cross with To Live Is Christ banner
Colour traditional tattoo of a wooden log with a pink and yellow banner reading FROM BENEATH YOU IT DEVOURS, shown on skin.
Wooden log with banner reading From Beneath You It Devours
Black and grey realism tattoo of a wooden cross with a candle on top and a ribbon reading In Memory of Those I've Lost, on the side of the ribs.
Wooden cross with candle and memorial ribbon
Black and grey guillotine tattoo reading Keep your chin up beside a gallows with noose reading Hang in there, both on a lower leg.
Guillotine and gallows tattoos on lower legs
Black and grey realism tattoo of a cut tree stump with growth rings and a split running up from the centre, across the upper arm.
Tree stump growth rings on upper arm
Realistic colour tattoo of a wooden cross draped with a stars and stripes flag against a blue cloudy sky, with grass at the base.
Wooden cross draped with a flag
Colour and grey tattoo of a leg lamp in a wooden crate with a red ribbon reading A MAJOR AWARD, on a calf, in a traditional style.
Leg lamp in a crate with a banner
Black ink drawing of a tree stump cross-section, with concentric growth rings, radial cracks and a bark-like edge, on textured white paper.
Tree stump cross-section design
Realism tattoo of a wooden cross wrapped in a crown of thorns and a draped purple cloth, with stones and nails at the base, on a lower leg.
Wooden cross with thorns and purple cloth on a calf
Traditional style tattoo of a sharpened wooden stake with the script words Mr. Pointy and red blood drops on an upper arm.
Wooden stake with blood drops
Greyscale pencil drawing of a rough wooden cross bound with rope, presented as a tattoo design with no body part shown.
Lashed wooden cross design
Several hands rest on weathered wood, each with gold and rose gold metallic geometric temporary tattoos on the wrists, forearms and fingers.
Gold metallic temporary tattoos on hands and wrists
Two black ink tattoos on a lower leg, a guillotine labelled Keep your chin up and a gallows with a noose labelled Hang in there, set against a brick wall.
Guillotine and gallows calf tattoos
Black typewriter-style lettering reading choose joy on the inner wrist of a raised hand, set against dark weathered wooden boards.
Choose joy wrist tattoo
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of a tree stump cross-section with concentric growth rings and pale radial cracks, shown on a forearm in three stacked photographs.
Tree ring cross-section on a forearm
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of a tree stump cross-section with growth rings and radial cracks, shown on the forearm in three stacked photographs.
Tree ring cross-section on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo of a weathered wooden outhouse under an orange sun, with a banner reading IT NEVER ENDS.
Outhouse and It Never Ends banner
Full arm sleeve tattoo of oak leaves and tree bark in colour, running from the upper arm down to the wrist.
Oak leaves and bark arm sleeve
Traditional style colour tattoo of a grey anchor wrapped in yellow rope and teal leaves, on the lower leg.
Anchor with rope and teal leaves on a calf