Tattoos by Bram Adey: March 2026

Sunday, March 29, 2026

New tattoos and flash - Late-March 2026

Hi, welcome to the blog. My name is Bram Adey, and I've been tattooing in Winnipeg for sixteen years. I make black and grey tattoos, often nature themed, but do lots of custom work in varying themes as well. Here are some new tattoos from the last few weeks, as well as some new available designs from my ongoing work "Our Wild World" of Manitoba and environs wildlife designs.

Pussy-Willow tattoo - Forearm

From my aforementioned collection "Our Wild World", and Drawn from life, spring 2025.

pine cone tattoo - forearm - Pine cones and bough tattoo by Bram Adey at ritual winnipeg tattoo studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Pine Bough tattoo - Top of Wrist - A tattoo of a pine bough and cones wrapping from the innner forearm to the top of wrist, made by Bram Adey at ritual winnipeg tattoo studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Pine cones and needles - Forearm/wrist tattoo

This design is based on an older flash design i had available, updated and customized to fill the top of the client's wrist.

Snake tattoo detail - A detail of a forearm tattoo of a serpent, the tattoo is in a traditional black and grey style, made by Bram Adey at ritual winnipeg tattoo studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Snake tattoo - Forearm

I generally draw snakes based roughly on the form and patterning of the red sided garter snake that is the most common around Manitoba.

A tattoo of a running couger on an upper arm - the cougar tattoo is in a traditional black and grey style, made by Bram Adey at ritual winnipeg tattoo studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Cougar tattoo - Upper Arm

Another one from "Our Wild World", based on the drawings of Dwayne Harty in the book "Manitoba's Big Cat"

A tattoo of a badger strolling across a chest. the badger tattoo is rendered in a traditional black and grey style, made by Bram Adey at ritual winnipeg tattoo studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Badger chest tattoo - Custom

To compliment the coyote on the other side by my friend Brit from Montreal.

a tattoo of a peony flower nestled in flames on an outer calf. the floral tattoo is in a fineline traditional style, mmade by Bram Adey at ritual winnipeg tattoo studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Peony and Flames - Calf Tattoo

An older flash design from my archive of available designs.

a tattoo of a hognose snake slithering across a back. the snake tattoo is in a traditional blacn and grey style, made by Bram Adey at ritual winnipeg tattoo studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Hognose Snake - Custom Back Tattoo

Another of our native snake species.

An upper arm with a loon tattoo on the shoulder and a bison on the outer bicep. the loon and bison tattoos are in a traditional black and grey style, made by Bram Adey at ritual winnipeg tattoo studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Loon and Bison tattoos - Upper Arm

A shin tattoo of a pair of peony flowers and a dagger. the peony and dagger tattoo is in a traditional black and grey style, made by Bram Adey at ritual winnipeg tattoo studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Dagger and Peonies - Shin tattoo

From my archive of available designs.

a larger tattoo of a snake filling an outer calf from knee to ankle. the black and grey snake tattoo is made in a traditional style by by Bram Adey at ritual winnipeg tattoo studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Custom snake tattoo - Outer calf

A ditch tattoo of a Lilac flower - the lilac floral tattoo is in a traditional black and grey style by Bram Adey at ritual winnipeg tattoo studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Lilac floral tattoo - inner elbow

The Following are some new available flash designs

Mallard Duck - Tattoo Flash design

Black eyed susan - tattoo flash design

After roughing out a good twenty sheets of flash for this project, i was left with quite a few little gaps here and there, so i've been taking time to make up some smaller design to fill the spaces:

Black Widow - Tattoo flash design

Various bugs - insect tattoo flash

Loons - tattoo flash designs

Loon - tattoo flash design

I picked up "The Silmarillion" recently to give it a re-read, and was inspired by the description of the two trees to make up these interpretations of the flowers of the two trees. If you're a Tolkien lover and would like these tattoos, drop me a line, I'd love to do them or some version of them!

Thanks a lot for checking out my blog. If you'd like to come get tattooed, drop me a line at bram_adey@hotmail.com , my books are always open, and I'd love to see you!

-Bram

Sunday, March 15, 2026

New Tattoos - March 2026

Hi, welcome to my blog. My Name is Bram and I'm a tattooer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. I have been tattooing for sixteen years and make black and grey tattoos in a traditionally inspired fineline style, often nature-themed but also with a little dose of esoterica in the mix.

If you'd like to come get tattooed, shoot me an email at bram_adey@hotmail.com to get the ball rolling.

I also own and operate a small tattoo studio in winnipeg called Ritual Winnipeg, and you can see more of my work as well as my wonderful coworkers at https://ritualwinnipeg.com/

Enjoy!

A black and grey tattoo os a snake entwined in flames. the tattoo is on an outer forearm, and the dark serpent is loosely coiled and nestled in a bed of slender black flames.

Snake and Flames - Outer forearm tattoo

A fineline black and grey tattoo of a lady's slipper flower on an upper-outer arm. The Lady's slipper is a calm simple design with a single stem emerging from a bed of a few long, dark, broad leaves, with a delicate, fine flower head.

Lady's Slipper - Floral upper-arm tattoo

From my flash series "Our Wild World" best viewed on my instagram stories or in-studio on the first friday of every month from 5-9pm.

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A small fineline butterfly tattoo. The tattoo is of a small monarch butterfly placed between the inner and outer forearm, flying up and away. The tattoo is rendered with very fine black lines, but also has a darkness about it's darker parts, softened by grey shading.

Monarch Butterfly - Fineline black and grey tattoo

A realistic fineline black and grey tattoo of a duck, similar to a mallard, floating on water. The tattoo is on an upper-inner arm, and the duck floats gently across the water and leads out to the rest of the arm where we can see it interact with other tattoos.

Duck Tattoo - Upper-inner arm

Perch - Upper-arm fish tattoo

this photograph shows the back-side of a tattooed upper-arm highlighting a simple, elegant tattoo of a birch leaf surounded by a wood-chopping axe on one side and a fishes tail on the other. the leaf tattoo is rendered in a traditional but realistic style.

Leaf tattoo - Upper-arm

These previous three photos, the duck, perch and leaf (as well as the mostly hidden axe tattoo in the third photo). were all made across the last couple years and are making for a fine little sleeve/half sleeve project.

This photograph shows a sternum tattoo of a bowl of fire set on a checked kerchief. the tattoo is hand-sized and sits elegantly in the centre of the chest. the flames lick up in a teardrop shape of fine-lined black and grey spikes.

Passion - Sternum Tattoo

I made this tattoo design about four years ago as a simple expression of the body, overflowing with passion. The square kerchief represents the earth, tipped to be a diamond, the active principle.

An Upper-arm tattoo of wild roses filling the spaces between several other tattoos and completing the top portion of a well-tattooed arm. the roses are rendered in clusters of fineline black and grey flowers and bolder blacker leaves

Wild Roses - Shoulder tattoo

If you have oddly shaped gaps in your tattoo collection and would like to fill them with some flowers like this, drop me a line, i always love giving a collection this floral treatment.

A black and grey tattoo on the back of an upper-arm showing a spout in a brick wall releasing a stream of water being playfully caught in a dish further below. the water cascades down in a gentle stream and splashes playfully as if fills the bowl.

Abundance - Back of the arm tattoo

This is another tattoo design i devised four years ago or so representing the universe providing by way of life-giving water. This is meant to be a protective and auspicious tattoo.

a photograph of someone wearing a polo shirt with a button undone showing the head of a loon tattoo peeking out. The tattoo is in a bold black and grey style and shows perfectly out of the shirt in a playful, formal way.

Loon peeking out - Chest tattoo

Another design from ""Our Wild World". See my instagram highlights for more from this set.

A simple forearm tattoo of a small sprig of delicate flowers. the flowers are rendered in a fineline traditional style, with slender dark leaves and fine, soft flowers.

Floral tattoo - Forearm

An upper-inner arm tattoo of a crayfish. the crayfish is designed in a simple symmetrical style reminicent of old textbooks, but rendered in a clean western traditional style with strong black linework and black and grey shading.

Crayfish tattoo - Upper-inner arm

A large outer-forearm tattoo of a hawk with a small songbird in it's talons. the bird is perched on a branch and stoops it's head to the side with a menacing look in it's eye. the perched hawk tattoo fills the available space left between hand tattoos and other tattoos on the inner and upper forearm.

Merlin - Outer forearm hawk tattoo

A small tattoo of a bison on the back side of a shoulder, just above the armpit. the bison is in a dynamic pose, head lowered and legs in motion, as though charging. the bison tattoo is rendered in a fineline black and grey style with contrasting areas od fine linnes flooded with soft grey and areas of open skin locked in by dramatic black shading to reveal the bison's shape.

Bison tattoo - Upper arm

Most of the work I do is custom-drawn, but in my spare time i make a fair amount of pre-made designs for you to choose from if you'd like. Right now, i'm mostly working on the project i mentioned a couple times earlier called "Our Wild World", and it's a collection of plants/animals/fungi/geology from around the Great Plains/Precambrian Shield.

Much of the series is inspired by pre-80's wildlife/botanical reference, like this lovely little canadian school textbook by Elizabeth Burnett Flock, and illustrated by her brother J.H.

I neglected to photograph a few new floral designs, but you can see my black-eyed susan design a bit here, I also added Twin Flower to the collection this week.

Slug and Snail - Tattoo flash designs

Bee - Tattoo flash design

I got sick this week, so I busted out "les centimes" for a little fun.

Down at the studio, I've been trying to get a lending library going, not too much uptake just yet, but if you've got a good book you're done with and you'd like to trade it for something new, or you've got old books you like, but no longer want to steward, stop by the studio Tuesday-Friday, 10-6 and drop 'em off, I'd love that!

The weather's getting warmer, so i'm gonna start getting back into the business of photographing this type of creature again.

Well, thanks a lot for checking out my blog, I really appreciate it!

All the best,

Bram