Tattoos by Bram Adey: floral tattoo

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

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