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phantom orchid tattoo ⚔️🥀
@phantomorchid.bsky.social
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✨🖤 𝖙𝖆𝖙𝖙𝖔𝖔𝖘 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖑𝖔𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖘 🖤✨
all bodies + skintones // portland, oregon
queer, autistic + disabled // they/she/he
masks required + vax encouraged

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First session on a memorial piece for a truly wonderful friend. Loved getting to make this sweet boy as fancy as he deserves, can’t wait to finish him up 🥹💞

#pdxtattoo #portlandtattoo #cattoo #cattattoo #neotrad
A photograph of a fresh tattoo placed on the side of a thigh with pale skin, framed by the black and taupe pattern of the client’s pants. The design features a portrait in profile view of the client’s former cat with tufted ears and distinctive tabby markings on his face. The cat is wearing a medieval crown and a ruffled shirt sticking up above a tall tunic collar, surrounded by an ermine fur pelt and a half-finished necklace of metal medallions. The back of the cat’s head is overlapped by a large peony flower and the entire composition is ringed by several clusters of stylized leaves and berries. The lines are finished and a small amount of stipple shading has been added to the peony and the tunic collar. The final piece will be black and grey! A detail shot of the previous image, focusing on the cat’s face and princely attire.
May 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
phantomorchid.bsky.social
I loooved doing this anchovy tin for my partner’s nephew. More weird little guys like this forever 🙏

#portland #portlandtattoo #pdxtattoo #fishtattoo #pdx
April 30, 2025 at 7:17 AM
phantomorchid.bsky.social
I love doing this tear-away style of portrait with tattered edges to the character’s shoulders, and this was my first time incorporating such a detailed outfit into the mix. Really pleased with how it came out.

More fancy portraits, please! 🙏

#portlandtattoo #pdxtattoo #vampiretattoo #fantasyart
April 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
phantomorchid.bsky.social
Closeups of the handsome vampire I got to make for @legalizegoblins.bsky.social

I love doing character pieces and getting to add extra gothy touches like the tears of blood and bat brocade (inspired by Castlevania concept art) was the icing on top.

Part fresh/part healed with some touch-ups!
A closeup shot of a portrait tattoo on pale skin. The subject is a gothic vampire in Victorian/Regency clothing in shades of muted purple and grey with red accents and some gold jewelry, including an upside-down cross earring. There is a faint brocade pattern on his tattered cloak suggestive of bat shapes. Faint misty, cloud-like shapes frame his head and curl over his hair, partly obscuring the details. He has grey, curly hair tied back in a mauve bow and pointed ears, with two beauty marks next to his eye and his mouth. His eyebrows are thick and black and frame his heavily lined red eyes. He has a strongly outlined nose and a purple tinge to his lips, with trails of blood streaming from his eyes and the corner of his mouth. The vampire’s expression is ambiguous and seems to be sizing up the viewer, perhaps faintly challenging or intrigued. In some places the outlines are darker than others due to being touched up during the final session. Much of the tattoo is already healed but some parts are fresh. A wider shot of the previous photo, this time including more of the background elements. Swirling pale blue and soft lavender mist surrounds the vampire, framing his head and shoulders and overlapping his clothing and hair in places. The tattered, stylized edges of his cloak are more visible in this shot, and his body ends at his shoulders. Three purple bat silhouettes fly above his head, and a muted golden full moon peeks out from the clouds. The moon and mist are freshly tattooed and bear a faint tinge of blood in places.
April 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
phantomorchid.bsky.social
I always love living in Portland but some days are just a little funnier than others~
Sidewalk chalkboard sign for Paymaster Lounge featuring a white male cougar(?) or similar large cat kicking up its back leg and pissing into a moonshine jug, above the text “Definitely Not Moonshine”
February 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
phantomorchid.bsky.social
✨🌙 Elf vs. Demon Elf 😈✨

This one was super fun— Julia wanted one of her novel’s MCs and their alter ego as a first tattoo! Had such a good time working on it together 🙏💞

More like this always and forever!

#pdxtattoo #portlandtattoo #queertattoo #fantasytattoo #demontattoo #elftattoo
February 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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🌿🌸 Elven Prince 🌸🍃

New flash drop! Just wanted to draw an androgynous elf baddie 💅 Someone come get him! He’s sized for a thigh or bicep at 8” min and starts at $885 (ps. I take Affirm now…!)

venue.ink/@phantom.orchid to book or see my other flash 💞

#pdxtattoo #portlandtattoo #queertattoo
February 20, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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🌸 If you see this, post something pink 🌸
A pink, purple, and gold-toned portrait of a pretty, demonic horned man from the neck up, inspired by the characters Sukuna from Jujutsu Kaisen and Hisoka from Hunter x Hunter. His chin-length hair is purple below and pink above, styled like flames and stands away from his head. His body is torn away as if made of paper, and he has an open third-eye on his forehead with jagged, pale pink scars above his eyebrows. He is holding his long-nailed, disembodied hands in front of him as if in prayer. He has gold eyes, dark purple eyeshadow and pink sclera, and is crying black tears which are streaming down his cheeks and dripping off his chin. He is looking down and to the side, and his lips are parted as if he has been interrupted. The background is a flat, pale pink which contrasts with the painterly rendering on parts of the figure.
January 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
phantomorchid.bsky.social
Two of my favorite (unclaimed!) flash designs from last year~

My brain has really been struggling to draw new flash lately, so I’m going to keep showing it proof that I can indeed make things. Fancy things. Gay things!! Cmon bro don’t u wanna make more gay things 😭🥲

#portlandtattoo #pdxtattoo
January 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
phantomorchid.bsky.social
broke my cat, any suggestions?
January 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
phantomorchid.bsky.social
The before and the after 🖤💫

I love doing coverups that lend to interesting compositional choices I wouldn’t have made otherwise! It was so fun to transform this abstract piece (which was already very cool) into something that tied the entire forearm together!

#coveruptattoo #portlandtattoo
January 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
phantomorchid.bsky.social
The fresh scorpion from 2020 with a better shot of it healed in 2024! Love seeing how it settled in over the years 💫

#scorpiontattoo #portlandtattoo #pdxtattoo #pnwtattoo #queertattooer #queertattooartist #scorpion
January 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
phantomorchid.bsky.social
Drawn-on coverup for a very lovely client (featuring a peek of a healed scorpion we did in 2020.) 🦂✨ I’ll share what we covered below👇

Loved doing this. All thorns, all the time!!

#portlandtattoo #pdxtattoo #pnwtattoo #thorntattoo #queertattoo #queertattooer #blackworktattoo #peonytattoo
A close-in side view of a person wearing a white shirt and light blue jeans. Their forearm has a fresh tattoo in black ink of thorny, spiky vine that zigzags over the top of their arm, with flowers and leaves sprouting at the top of the vine and over the wrist. A frontal view of the forearm tattoo, showcasing the drawn-on peony flower atop the wrist, which settles next to an “11:11” tattoo in blackletter done by another artist atop their hand. The zig-zagging of the thorny vine can be seen clearly atop their forearm, and a glimpse of the healed scorpion tattoo can be seen at the top. A side-view of the inner forearm shows how the drawn-on peony flower follows the curve of the wrist. There is a hint of another larger flower on the inside of the forearm just barely visible. The scorpions face is visible at this angle. The inside of the forearm features a blackwork peony flower with stipple shading, overlapped by the end of the zigzagging thorny vine. The inner wrist and elbow ditch are left blank, allowing this flower to serve as the centerpiece of the inner forearm.
January 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
phantomorchid.bsky.social
A favorite unicorn from my repeatable flash, done a while back on a talented friend (howeirdtattoos on instagram) 💫

This one still makes me so happy whenever I look at it! I still want to do more in other colors…

#tattoos #unicorn #portland #portlandtattoo #queertattoo #pdx #illustrativetattoo
A back-of-the-thigh tattoo of a stylized unicorn portrait with tufted fur and a flowing sinuous mane. The unicorn’s body is rendered with soft peachy oranges while the mane has a cool, deep sea green palette. We used bright turquoise and chartreuse for the horn and the spiky 8 point stars accenting the piece. Another angle of the same back-of-the-thigh tattoo of a stylized unicorn portrait with tufted fur and a flowing sinuous mane. The unicorn’s body is rendered with soft peachy oranges while the mane has a cool, deep sea green palette. We used bright turquoise and chartreuse for the horn and the spiky 8 point stars accenting the piece. This angle shows the back of the leg more thoroughly, as well as the unicorn’s mane in better detail.
January 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
phantomorchid.bsky.social
Breaking in the butterfly site with one of my favorite flash pieces that I have yet to tattoo… anyone in Portland wanna give this pastel Astarion a home? 🥹💞 permanent Happy buff!

#astarion #bg3 #baldursgate3 #portland #portlandtattoo
A pink and blue pastel-toned digitally painted portrait illustration of Astarion in a loose necked, laced up ruffled shirt surrounded by eight-pointed stars on a pink background with a light pink circle behind his head. A pink and blue pastel-toned digitally painted portrait illustration of Astarion in a loose necked, laced up ruffled shirt surrounded by eight-pointed stars on a pink background with a dark pink circle behind his head.
January 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM