Rose tattoos

[sbhikes]

These roses are unusual (from http://web.stagram.com/p/436134954046273325_6075972):

And then this image has interesting roses. They have the little jelly candies in the middle and are also flat and opened on the outside with the middles still unopened. I think that is kind of interesting. I wish I knew what to call the jelly candies. (From .@mykechambers | #tattoo #tattoos | Webstagram - the best Instagram viewer)

[tattooedgirl]

I like colored roses, red would have to be a fave of mine. I think that you can use them as a filler but they are equally beautiful anywhere on the body. I have considered getting one on my ankle, but then decided against it.

[Graeme]

I really dig what Ron Henry Wells has been doing with roses. He explains what he's doing with them on his blog here:

For the past few years I’ve been working on drawing roses increasingly weirder, but still based on real roses. More and more deconstructed, kind of like how I treated letters when I was a graffiti writer. Leave essential parts intact, while abstracting the image as a whole. I don’t know if I’m going anywhere with this, and I’m certainly not saying I’m doing some super original new dance or anything, I mean I’ve seen plenty of people do angular roses, but I’m trying to make something happen with these that feels like mine.

[el twe]

Man, Wells is just killing it.

[Graeme]

John Sultana who tattoos at Saved instagrammed this sheet of roses that is going to be in a book of rose flash that will be published by Zach Nelligan and Ezra Haidet. I think this is super cool:

[blujax01]

My daughter's rose done by Jack at Fate Tattoo in Columbus

[suburbanxcore]

Josh Stephens (@joshstephenstattoos on Instagram) has been posting some pretty bold, thick roses. They're a little different from what I traditionally like (or have on me at all), but they're cool.