Nature tattoos are all the rage. For collectors who gather their senses and think their best  outdoors, a small nature tattoo might be just the right homage to mother nature.

Nature tattoos don’t have to be flowers.

Using the form of the trees local to where you are, or a mountain that sits in the background of your town is a great way to open up conversation about what part of the world you call home.

Tattoos honoring bodies of water, or certain kinds of leaves can also help people understand where your passions lie.

The following gallery showcases that to have a smaller nature tattoo means you have confidence and clarity in who you are and how the world will see you.

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1. Small Nature Tattoo Band Designs

This lower leg band tattoo is spectacular in its simplicity. It’s just etched rocky canyons and clouds inked elegantly in black line and sparse shadow. Love how the artist has placed a single red orb (sun down or sun up?) along one ridge line providing an alternative focal point to the rest of the art.

An eye catching woodland take on the traditional arm band tattoo. It’s a raw, rustic, and well executed piece of primarily black line tattoo, with a bit of alt fill dots to add thickness and body to the pines.

The key to this ink’s success lies not so much in the image itself, but in the spacing of pattern – trees, neg space, clouds – and smart placement on the forearm just below the elbow. A thicker or thinner tattoo tagged elsewhere on the arm wouldn’t quite have the same clean look. 

A beautifully worked nature scene using various space and style techniques to give a great sense of scale. While only a small tattoo, the melding of perspectives keeps the art crisp and interesting. The fat flowing black lines used to delineate rivers and trees form an elegant, almost colorful counterpoint to the negative space mountains and heavily detailed dot work shading. It’s a tremendous piece of body art.