The most common elements in the Death tattoos are, without any doubt, the weapons (for the obvious reason that they are used for killing people).
The scythe is, by far, the most popular choice when it comes to a Grim Reaper tattoo. The scythe can symbolize the cutting of negative energies or influences. Also, as a harvesting tool, it can symbolize hope and prosperity. It can represent the moment of death, when a scythe is said to cut a silver thread. The scythe has a long handle, indicating that it can reach anywhere.
Death tattoo: Death is portrayed as a young woman holding a scythe
Death tattoo: a skeleton praying to Death. If you like this tattoo design you can find it in a larger format on my web site, www.seiza.ro
However, when the Death is portrayed as the Death Angel, the scythe is usually (but not necessarily) replaced by a sword. The sword can be a short, simple, sword (similar to the roman Gladius) or a highly-decorated sword.
Angel of Death tattoo: the Angel of Death is holding a highly decorated sword
Without being very popular, many other medieval weapons can be seen in the Death tattoos: spears, lances and javelins (these weapons can be seen in the Angel of Death tattoos or in the tattoos which depict Death as a medieval knight), knives and daggers (very common in the Skulls tattoo designs), bows and arrows, etc.
Grim Reaper portrayed as an archer / bowman
Increasingly popular are the fire-guns: usually handguns - derringers, old-fashioned revolvers (very common in the Mexican Mafia tattoos and in the Skulls tattoos), semi-automatic pistols and machine pistols (very common in the gang / prison tattoos) but also various long guns (like shotguns or sniper rifles).
Gangsta tattoo: Grim Reaper pointing a revolver. This tattoo was drawn by Peter Coinin Jr., a tattoo artist who works at the Beauty Mark Tattoo, 3356 East Main Street Waterbury, Connecticut. If you like this tattoo and you want to buy it you can send an email at this mail-address: beautymarktattoo@yahoo.com or you can visit their web-page
a very popular combination: guns, roses and a skull
skull tattoo covering a man's chest: a skull and two crossing revolvers surrounded by several gunshot wounds
a vision modern of the Angel of Death: Angel of Death portrayed as a sniper
a vision modern of the Grim Reaper: Grim Reaper portrayed as a sniper
a very popular tattoo theme: skulls and guns
gangsta tattoo design: a skeleton holding a modern semi-automatic pistol
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I like the grim reaper pointing a revolver. accept, more like with two pistols and a tilted cowboy hat.
ReplyDeleteThis tattoo was drawn by Peter Coinin Jr.. If you like the tattoo and you want to contact the artist who drew it, you can visit his web-site, The Beauty Mark Tattoo.
Deletethe grim reaper with the revolver is done by Peter Coinin @ The Beauty Mark Tattoo 3356 East Main Street Waterbury, Connecticut. The artwork is original and it would be nice if the owner of this site could give him the credit for it. You should do the same for the rest of the images on here, if they are not yours, you should give the original artist credit.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your help.
DeleteAs you can see, I've changed both the image's description and the image's link in order to give credit to the artist who drew the tattoo. I'd like to do the same with all the images, but unfortunately most of the time I don't know anything about the artists who created them.
I'll also send a mail to Mr. Peter Coinin and I'll ask him for the permission to keep the image on my blog.
Have a nice day!