'Pictish Warrior' Spirals Tattoo

This Nurse Practitioner is a Warrior Queen! We installed the pattern of single, double and triple spirals as a wrap that spanned around her arm and up onto her back, giving it lots of kinetic movement. I think the Picts painting themselves with woad for battle would have approved of this!

'Pictish Warrior' Spirals Tattoo ny Pat FIsh

A perfect way to add large area coverage in color. While we cannot know exactly what tattoos the woad warriors would have worn, we can surmise that they would have copied the spirals found on contemporary stone carvings, all that we now have left to document the mysterious race of the Picts.

'Eye of the Storm' Celtic Spiral Tattoo

Today's client works in the educational system, striking a noble effort to help teachers do the best they can against horrific odds. He made a bet with his sons that an old guy like him COULD be cool enough to get a tattoo. They think he was at work today. FaceBook will out him! Thoroughly modern!

'Eye of the Storm' Celtic Spiral Tattoo by Pat Fish

Evoking the swirling forms seen in satellite views of massive storms, this ancient pattern from a cloisonné metalwork artifact has both the whirling power of the vortex and the calm center.

Prince of Peace Celtic Cross Tattoo

A new adaptation of an ancient cross found on a graveyard monument in Clonmacnoise, Ireland, the ecclesiastical heart of the nation. The proportions have been expanded to flare the ends of the cross arms and base, and opened up to add a small colored cross in the very center. A classic cross that can be reproduced at a small size, and carries historic significance.

Prince of Peace Celtic Cross Tattoo by Pat Fish

Celtic Ring and I'itoi Tattoo

A melding of two cultures, in this tattoo a man honors his ancestors on both his AmerIndian and Celtic sides. The I'itoi is the mischievous creator god of the O'odham, here represented as the Man in the Maze pattern frequently seen in the silver jewelry made by the Tohono O'odham people. Surrounded by an endless Celtic knotwork ring, the two become one just as he himself joins the two heritages. 

Celtic Ring and I'itoi Tattoo by Pat Fish