Best Sketch Of Phoenix Tattoo Design Picture

The phoenix incorporates notions of life, rebirth and renewal. If you are contemplating a phoenix bird tattoo you need to take these values into account. Also, a phoenix bird of fire tattoo must be of sufficient size to make an impact. This is a magnificent bird and deserves respect - size is important. You simply can't represent the idea of eternal life with a small tattoo!

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To many, the creation of any tattoo is a wonderful thing. Anyone fortunate enough to have ever experienced the creation of a tattoo will bear witness to the anticipation and excitement it usually create’s. The creation of any piece of art is a gift that needs to be shared and in the case of the tattooist, a gift that is shared in a most intimate way.

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While a great many tattoos can grab your attention and strike at the heart, in the eyes of many, the tattooist’s art is never more elegant than in the creation of the beautiful phoenix tattoo.
Both graceful and striking, the phoenix is a symbol that mean’s so many things in so many different cultures but at it’s most basic form, the phoenix is the ultimate symbol of rebirth.

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Said to live anywhere from 500 to 3000 years. The phoenix which is usually thought to be a female bird will build a nest consisting of aromatic cinnamon twigs and then when it’s life draws to an end, set’s fire to the nest reducing both bird and nest to ashes.
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After three days a newborn phoenix chick is resurrected from the ashes of the old phoenix.

Being almost obsessed with death and rebirth, it’s no surprise that this legend descends mainly from the Egyptian culture. The newly hatched chick places the ashes of it’s previous incarnation into an egg made of myrrh and carries the ashes to the alter of the sun god in the city of Heliopolis, the Egyptian city of the sun.

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Featured in the Egyptian book of the dead, representing the rising and setting of the sun the phoenix offers the tattoo artist an opportunity to let their imagination go wild and create a tattoo of many and varied vibrant colours.