Celtic Shamrock
By Shannon • May 3rd, 2007 • Category: ModBlogNow, the core picture in this design (the “celtic shamrock”) is fairly common and is probably on quite a few sheets of flash, but I think this is a good example of how you can take a popular motif and tattoo it a little bigger, a little cleaner, a little brighter, and with a few extra features (like the negative space clovers) and turn it from overdone to something unique and far more effective. This tattoo is by Justin Weatherholtz at Wizard’s World in Douglassville, PA.
Shannon is the former editor of BMEzine.com.
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Wow, I love this tattoo. Very nice.
Whoa, that’s awesome.
The colors are wonderful in the tattoo they compliment each other great! Awesome tattoo!!
Go Justin, he does fab work. Check him out. :)
That’s absolutely awesome.
Fuuuuck. I lalalove it. It happens to be my favorite color[green] and I love the smaller shamrocks that aren’t any color. Those really pop out to me. :] Kuddo’s to the artist
I love how some of the background green weaves in and out of the main design, and i’m a sucker for celtic knotwork anyday…
Dayum! That is beautiful.
Very nice indeed. Wonderful bold colours. :-D
an excellent example of taking something popular and making it unique again. very well done ^_^
i loooove it.
didnt p.o.d. use that central celtic symbol on their cds?
that’s a wicked spin on the typical celtic clover
It’s not something I’d wear personally, but it’s extremely well-done. Nice!
that is fantastic, i love the use of negative space
I LOVE the colors
I live in Boston, and I am bored to tears with all the crappy shamrock tattoos I see. That being said, if I bumped into this bloke, I’d compliment him on his good taste.
Damn nice. I usually am not a fan of multi-color tattoos, but this is quite pleasing.
this is pretty, but not a true celtic knot, which bugs me. i love the negative space clovers, though.
very cleverly done. A+
The blues and greens are amazing!
Cool spin on a common theme! Me likey.
nice to see someone willing to get it the size it needs to be……too many little tiny pussy versions of this!…..
man even I like that and i usually don’t like celtic stuff
The colors are fantastic. :) Great tat.
I still don’t like the subject matter or how it looks (not my thing), but I’m so relieved to finally see a shamrock tattoo that is well done, and bigger than a 50c piece! (Aussie 50c piece that is).
Good on him for making it his own and going to an obviously talented artist!
I love those negative space clovers! looks awesome
i dig the shamrock, but could’ve done without the green zombie flesh background.
the shamrock’s dope, though.
LOOK AT THOSE COLORS!
i love how the weaving is encorporated from the background into the shamrock itself, furthering the whole celtic knot idea
that is incredibly pretty. lovely contrasting colors and the shamrock-shaped missing pieces i particularly love!
Those colours are phenomenal, the use of negative space. The overlapping and depth. This piece is really quite striking.
That central symbol in the middle of each shamrock leaf is called a Triqueta it’s a symbol for the trinity (depending on your faith that could be the christian trinity, triple goddess or past, present and future).
and I can’t spell, it’s Triquetra. *winks*
Just to clarify.
when i saw that photo, the first thing i thought was “damn, i’d fancy a guiness right now”
I love the colours and the design, outstandingly eye catching.
Wow… awesome