Surreal Staircase Blackwork Forearm — tattoo by Erik Gillespie

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A black & grey traditional (old school) tattoo featuring a pattern & ornament, placed on the forearm. 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: Buildings & Architecture 100%
• Placement: Forearm
• Colour: Black & Grey
• Pain here: Mild, 2 of 5; healing: easy

Details

• Visibility here: often visible (short sleeves)
• Tags (each opens similar tattoos): Traditional (Old School) · Pattern & Ornament · Forearm · 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 tags)