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

Rosary and cross black and grey tattoo on the forearm by SYDPanther and tulips American traditional tattoo on the back by SYDCandle lantern black and grey tattoo on the forearm by SYDHummingbird and flower American traditional tattoo on the forearm by SYDRose black and grey tattoo on the forearm by SYDRosary and cross black and grey tattoo on the forearm by SYDLilies dotwork tattoo on the shoulder by SYDPanther and tulips dotwork tattoo on the back by SYDLilies dotwork tattoo on the forearm by SYDLantern and flowers black and grey tattoo on the forearm by SYDApple dotwork tattoo on the forearm by SYDPanther and tulips American traditional tattoo on the back by SYDJaguar and tulips dotwork tattoo on the torso by SYDBee new school tattoo on the forearm by SYDHummingbird and flower American traditional tattoo on the forearm by SYDHeart black and grey tattoo on the forearm by SYDPanther black and grey tattoo on the back by SYDLilies black and grey tattoo on the upper arm by SYDPanther and tulips dotwork tattoo on the back by SYDWoman realism tattoo on the upper arm by SYDHummingbird and flower American traditional tattoo on the forearm by SYDHummingbird and flower American traditional tattoo on the forearm by SYDLantern and flowers black and grey tattoo on the forearm by SYDCladdagh ring black and grey tattoo on the forearm by SYD