Tattoos by Bram Adey

Monday, February 23, 2026

Tattoos and Flash - February 2026

Hi, Welcome to my blog. My Name is Bram and I've been tattooing in Winnipeg for the last sixteen years. I make traditionally inspired fineline black and grey tattoos, often nature themed. I do lots of Birds, Floral tattoos and Animals.

I do both custom tattoos and have a wealth of tattoo flash designs to choose from or be inspired by. I'm always taking new clients, and you can book a tattoo or consultation appointment by emailing me at bram_adey@hotmail.com.

A fineline black and grey tattoo of a small sparrow foraging on the ground for seeds.

Sparrow tattoo - Forearm

A fineline black and grey tattoo on the back of a thigh of a peony flower surrounded by thin, elegant black flames.

Peony and Flames - Thigh tattoo

A fineline black and grey bird tattoo of a tropical bird with long ornamental tail feathers and a pretty patttern in it's feathers.

Tropical Bird tattoo - Shoulder

A western traditional style tattoo of a raspberry plant with fineline raspberries and lush, bold leaves.

A western traditional tattoo of a black and grey scorpion.

Scorpion tattoo - Back of Forearm

A black and grey tattoo of a loon centred on a chest. The loon's back faces the viewer as it raises it's body up out of the water with it's wings outstretched.

Loon - Chest tattoo

A photograph of a tattooed shoulder, trapezious and neck. The shoulder is capped with fineline clouds, billowing up to fill the shoulder, with a sprig of sweetgrass running along the trapezious and up onto the neck.

Sweetgrass and Prairie clouds - Neck and shoulder tattoos

A fineline Black and Grey floral tattoo filling the front of a shoulder. the peony opens to fill out the shoulder and spills out onto the chest with slender, dark leaves.

Peony - Floral tattoo

A fineline black and grey floral tattoo of two bunches of lilac flowers filling an inner forearm. the flowers are rendered simply with strong fine lines and are supported by elegant dark leaves.

Lilac tattoo - Forearm

A fineline black and grey tattoo of three sprigs of wheat on an outer forearm. the seed heads of the wheat are rendered in a strong fineline style with minimal shading and supported by bolder stems and elegant black leaves.

Wheat tattoo - Outer Bicep

An outer-bicep tattoo of three coneflowers in a fineline black and grey style. The flowers are realistic looking, with super fine lined flower heads and deep elegant leaves and stems supporting them.

Coneflower tattoo - Outer Bicep

An inner-forearm tattoo of a flower-head of geraniums with fineline flowers and bold, rich leaves.

Geranium - Floral tattoo - Inner forearm

A view of the inner-arm parts of a full-sleeve tattoo showing an inner-forearm of big bluestem grass and an upper-inner arm of a spruce bough. the tattoos are made in a fineline black and grey style featuring long elegant lines, both ultra thin and a little bolder in the stems and cones.

Inside of tattoo sleeve - Bluestem and Spruce

A detail photo of an inner forearm tattooed with big bluestem grasses on the inner forearm and a large Spruce bough on the upper-inner arm. the tattoos are in an elegant fineline black and grey style with strong black and grey shading and fine-elegant linework.

Bluestem and Spruce - Sleeve tattoo

A fineline black and grey tattoo of a snowberry plant on an outer forearm. The tattoo is big and flowes across the outer forearm filling it entirely with branches of a snowberry tree. there are finely lined white berries and bolder, rich leaves to support them.

Snowberry tattoo - Outer forearm

A fineline black and grey tattoo of a spruce bough filling an upper inner arm and flowing out to the front of the arm and filling the inner-elbow. The spruce needles are rendered in a strong fine line and the cones are with a bold contrasty style.

Spruce tattoo - Inner to Outer Bicep

A tattoo of a kingfisher bird on a chest/collar bone. The bird is diving across the chest with it's wings outstretched but slightly tucked in in a diving posture. The tattoo is rendered in a western traditional style with strong black linework and shading while still being naturalistic in it's rendering.

Kingfisher - Collar bone tattoo

A fineline black and grey tattoo of a butterfly on a hand. The little butterfly is very fine in style with thin lines and bold/elegant patterning.

Butterfly - Hand tattoo

A large western traditional tattoo of an osprey filling an outer-thigh. the osprey clutches a fish in it's talons with it's wings upstretched in flight, showing off the beautiful, bold pattern of it's wing feathers and belly.

Osprey - Thigh tattoo

Osprey tattoo - Thigh

A fineline black and grey tattoo of a black spruce bough reaching from the upper outer arm to the inner forearm. The spruce needles are rendered in a fine line with smooth soft shading, while the cones are in a bolder traditional style with dark grey shading.

Black Spruce tattoo - Upper arm

Black spruce tattoo - upper arm

A black and grey tattoo of a morel mushroom on a forearm. the tattoo is of a solitary mushroom in a western traditional style with a clean strong black outline and strong black and grey shading. the mushroom is nestled among some twigs and other debris.

Morel Mushroom tattoo - Forearm

An inner-forearm tattoo of a coffee plant. the plant is represented as a single branch, straight along the inner-forearm with elegant leaves and fineline open flowers and berries along it's stem.

Coffee plant tattoo - Inner forearm

A thigh tattoo of a fox dipping it's toes in a pond. The fox is standing among wetland plants as it explores the edge of the pond.

Fox in the wetlands - Thigh tattoo

A black and grey outer-bicep tattoo of a pomegranate fruit. the fruit is split open with it's seeds exposed, a few seeds lay around. the fruit is rendered in a western traditional style with strong black lines and dark shading, while the seeds are rendered with a super fine black line and soft grey shading.

A simple floral tattoo on a back of an upper-arm. The flowers are rendered with a super fine black line and the leaves are in a bolder traditional style.

Floral tattoo - Back of arm

An inner forearm tattoo of Flax flowers. The floral tattoo is simple and formal in the center of the forearm and is rendered in a fineline black and grey style, with slender, elegant black leaves and smooth, soft flowers.

Flax Flowers - Inner forearm tattoo

A fineline black and grey tattoo of the bough of a cherry tree, with fineline flowers and traditionally rendered cherries. the leaves flip around in an elegant way, the flowers bloom up towards the sun and the cherries hang down low.

Cherry tree tattoo - Upper-outer arm

Most of these tattoos are custom pieces, but a good little selection of them are also designs that were chosen from my extensive collection of tattoo "flash", designs that are ready and available to be tattooed. The following are part of a new body of available designs I've been working on called "Our Wild World". This collection is meant to become a comprehensive cross-section of plants, animals and fungi of Manitoba's natural environment. All of these designs are available to be tattooed.

The winter weasel

This flash project is a real joy to work on, and I'm so grateful to already have had a chance to tattoo many of the new designs.

As always, thanks from the bottom of my heart for checking out my blog and getting tattooed by me. Here are a few photos from around my place and Winnipeg generally. I've not been doing too much photography lately, because it's just too danged cold! but we did get that one spectacular day recently with rhyme ice in the morning and fog in the evening, that made for a spectacular day of photos.

Thanks again,

Bram