Draco Tattoo Design
A Nordic style dragon tangled above a Icelandic vegvisir symbol. Fit to coil and writhe around an arm or leg.
View ArticleMaeshowe Dragon Wolf Tattoo Design
Maeshowe is a neolithic chambered tomb located in Orkney, in far Northern Scotland. Built around 2800BC, 5,000 years ago. The most stunning of the stone carvings within is this mysterious chimera of a...
View ArticleEquity Knot Tattoo Design
A balanced Celtic protection knot and ring, a strong symbol for a teacher, here used to cover a regrettable "tribal" symbol long past its appreciation date.
View ArticleHounds of Life Celtic Shield Tattoo Design
The Tree of Life in this tattoo is flanked by two protecting Irish Wolfhounds, with the entire knotting linked and interwoven with an oval border, making it an integrated shield.
View ArticleCeltic Rising Eagle Tattoo Design
The Eagle rises! A custom drawing of a knotwork-winged eagle to span her shoulderblades.This young woman of faith will be joining the Army soon, and asked for the inspirational Bible text 2 Corinthians...
View ArticleRunning Hounds Band Celtic Tattoo Design
Dogs have always held an extremely important place in Celtic life and art. The Irish hunting hounds were exported worldwide as royal gifts for centuries, and they figure prominently in all the...
View ArticleChristogram Tattoo Design
A christogram tattoo, combining of the symbol for Christ, consisting of the Greek letters chi (X) and rho (P), with the Alpha and Omega, surrounded by these words in French: "Seigneur Jésus, Christ,...
View ArticleRose Cross Celtic Tattoo Design
A custom request for three heraldic roses on an equal-armed Celtic cross, representing this father's three children, whose names he wrote out in ogham to encircle the design.
View ArticleWinchester Bible Medieval Dragon Tattoo Design
A wyvern dragon forming an illuminated letter "S" in the prologue to the Book of Jonah in the Winchester Bible, c.1150-90. The Bible is kept at the Winchester Cathedral Priory of Saint Swithun, and was...
View ArticleHumpty Dumpty Tattoo Design
The client who thought up this tattoo is a pro racing bike rider who got in a massive wreck and has a "7" shaped scar over the pins and metal bits in his shoulder, so we put this Humpty Dumpty in the...
View ArticleHonor Cross Celtic Tattoo Design
A cross designed for a police officer and military veteran. The central element is a triskle, the spiral triad, and the knotwork contains 4 hearts and Celtic symbols. A strong tattoo representing both...
View ArticleCeltic Polar Bear Tattoo Design
A fulfillment of a vision. This woman lost a trisomy baby at birth, and in dreams she comes back to her mother as a spirit bear, a loving polar bear. We placed her on a Celtic crescent moon, with...
View ArticleOklahoma Wildflowers Tattoo Design
Designed for and with a plant botanist, a nosegay of the glorious wildflowers of the prairie lands of Oklahoma.
View ArticleAll Saints Half Sleeve Tattoo Design
A representation of enduring faith. Three bands with embedded cross symbols joined to make a full forearm sleeve. The photos show the tattoo that had one band done 10 years before, then the top and...
View ArticleThe Loving Tree Tattoo Design
A memorial for two beloved parents whose lives together were as two trees twined to become one. This daughter asked that we unite an apricot and a plum, and I encircled them with a Celtic knot work...
View ArticleMercurial Spirals Tattoo Design
An evocative circle of spirals taken from the 6th century Book of Kells illuminated manuscript. The size of a dime in the original, greatly enlarged here to encompass the hip and onto the butt of a...
View ArticleCeltic Oak Green Man Tattoo Design
The spirit of the woods, a Celtic Green Man with woven knotwork beard and oak leaf hair. Representing the union of the primordial forest with the spirit of humankind.
View ArticlePictish Spirals Wild Spirit Tattoo Design
With a central Trinity Knot as the stable core, this backpiece design of wild Pictish spirals is a study in asymmetry and the curling flow of smoke in air.
View ArticleDragon Consorts
A memorial tattoo for a beloved wife, representing two people united for decades, since they were a teen romance, on the husband who could not figure out how to live without her. This week he committed...
View ArticleCeltic Four Dragon Band Tattoo Design
Four European dragons entwined in a knotted band that can be worn two ways, depending on which way the band is placed. The dragons can be looking away from each other or facing each other, depending on...
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