Romantic Tiger Tattoo with Roses

Large open blooms crowd around the calm face of a tiger in this gray ink drawing. The tiger gazes straight out, its stripes drawn in short, soft strokes, while the flowers fill the space below its chin and climb past its ears, with leaves in deeper gray tucked between them.

Layered blooms around a steady gaze

The flowers have rounded, many-layered petals, closer in the photo to peonies than to classic roses, and they are shaded with the same fine lines as the fur, so the animal and the blossoms merge into one rounded shape. Pairing a big cat with flowers is a favorite theme in tattoo art, setting strength beside tenderness. Worked entirely in black and gray, the oval design fits a forearm, an upper arm or the back of the shoulder. Our article on what a tiger tattoo means looks at the symbols behind the tiger, and more designs fill our tiger temporary tattoo collection.

Size and ingredients

This tattoo is listed at 15x21 cm and goes on with a moistened sponge. The listed ingredients are an acrylates copolymer, propylene glycol, petrolatum, linseed and soybean oils, mineral oil and color pigments including iron oxides and titanium dioxide.