SYD • VERA

@midwestcrybaby · Tattoo artist

🌽 FORT WAYNE INDIANA🌽 Artist @thepaintedladyfw 🦋 Walks In’s Tuesdays 12-5p 18+/CASH ONLY 💌 syd@thepaintedladyfw.com

SYD is a tattoo artist in Fort Wayne, Indiana whose work centres on American traditional. American traditional leads (15 of the 101 pieces on Perspectiv), with dotwork on another 14. About 27% of the pieces use colour, most often burgundy, dark red and teal; the rest are black and grey. Flower, rose, frog and panther come up again and again. Most pieces sit on the forearm or the back. Portfolio last updated September 2026.

Styles

Colour

Mostly black and grey, colour in 27% of pieces, measured across 95 segmented pieces.

Recurring colours: burgundy, dark red, teal and forest.

What they tattoo

Subjects: flower, rose, frog, panther, mushroom and rosary.

Usually on the forearm, the back and the thigh.

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Work

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