Ship Traditional Upper Arm — tattoo by Erik Gillespie

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An old school tattoo of clipper ship with tentacles, placed on the upper arm. Done in black and grey. By Erik Gillespie at Great Lakes Tattoo.

Key facts

• Tattoo by: Erik Gillespie at Great Lakes Tattoo, Chicago, United States
• Style: Traditional (Old School) 100%
• Shows: Clipper ship 75% · Tentacles 25%
• Placement: Upper Arm
• Colour: Black & Grey
• Pain here: Mild, 2 of 5; healing: easy

Details

• What makes it recognisable: subject 80 · style 20
• Visibility here: easy to cover
• Tags (each opens similar tattoos): Traditional (Old School) · Octopus & Squid · Ship · Upper Arm · Black & Grey

How we know

• Photo: published by Great Lakes Tattoo on greatlakestattoo.com; on TatSeek since 2026-09-30, with credit and a link back. The work belongs to the artist. Image rights
• Description and tags: TatSeek Vision Scan, an AI reading of each photo (Claude, by Anthropic) under written rules and a closed tag vocabulary, checked against photos labelled by hand. Shares of the picture are visual estimates, not measurements. Nothing about the person in the photo is recorded. How tagging works (Vision Scan v3)