Today a man who began this sleeve last month came back promptly to achieve completion. The look of a full forearm sleeve is like no other Celtic pattern, in this case achieving the feel of the bracer an archer would wear to protect their arm.
'Archer's Bracer' Celtic Sleeve Tattoo by Pat Fish
The seven pointed star, sacred to the Cherokee Nation, the Babylonians and the Gods of the Game of Thrones universe, is here united with the heads of two wolves in a yin-yang balance and encircled with a Celtic ring. An ancient American Indian story tells of the two wolves that do battle within us, and the one that wins is the one we feed. A guidance to choose the path of righteousness.
Today, after three years in the making, I finally finished this coverup. An all-too-typical tribal sun from his youth was no longer an adequate expression of his aesthetics, so he opted to celebrate his Cape Breton roots with a Celtic knot half sleeve. Coming from Canada was hard for him to schedule, so getting to Santa Barbara for multiple sessions required much unfinished yearning for completion. Covering black tribal did require extra darkness in the center at the top, but overall he is transformed and improved.
Celtic Sleeve Coverup Tattoo by Pat Fish
Recently a man came in to get this pattern and confessed he'd been lurking on my website for years, and kept coming back to this one. Finally his wife told him to just go ahead and DO IT! And it gave me a chance to make a minor change that I believe improves the pattern just a bit over the way I'd done it before.
Celtic 'Duleek Sleeve' Tattoo by Pat Fish
