Skeletal Gadsden Flag Tattoo Design

August 04, 2017

One of my favorite political symbols is the Gadsden Flag, established in 1775 and bearing the motto "Don't Tread on Me." It was taken up by the Tea Party activists, but I had been putting stickers of it on my vehicles for many years before. In conversations with an excellent patriotic client I came up with the idea of rendering it in a skeletal form, and this tattoo is the result. We chose to encircle it with both the original text and "Nemo me impune lacessit" which is on the royal coat of arms of the Kingdom of Scotland and translates in the Scots language to: "Wha daur meddle wi me?" Many years later I have had a chance to do it again, this time encircling it with a ring of Celtic knotwork.

Skeletal Gadsden flag tattoo by Pat Fish

Tribal Spiral Lotus Tattoo Design

August 03, 2017

Today a woman asked for a tribal design to complement other tattoos, and wanted a large pattern but not too heavy. So we did this simple graphic of a lotus with a tribal spiral element supporting it, done just in lines.

'The Morrigan' Celtic Tattoo

July 30, 2017

Today I installed this custom knotwork raven on a man who decided to devote his forearm to a representation of the bird form of the Celtic battle Goddess. She is shown calling out to the honored dead.

'The Morrígan' Celtic Tattoo by Pat Fish

"The Morrígan ("phantom queen") or Mórrígan ("great queen"), also known as Morrígu, is a figure from Irish mythology. The name is spelled Morríghan or Mór-ríoghain in Modern Irish.

The Morrígan is primarily associated with fate, especially with foretelling doom and death in battle. In this role she appears as a raven or crow, flying above the battlefield." -Wikipedia

Viking Neo-Nordic Celtic Dragon Forearm Gauntlet Tattoo Design

July 28, 2017

Today I finished this forearm gauntlet built of two dragons entwined to form the focus of energy. On the inner arm they meet to face off underneath a triquetra Celtic knot, and their bodies fill the rest of the arm with a matrix of knotwork. The best of both the Neo-Nordic and Celtic styles: representational imagery blended with knotwork that covers the arm with a web of interlocking weaves.