Black and white photo of a small fine line tattoo of a house with a chimney and shrubs on either side, placed on the upper arm.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Fine line house on the upper arm

Fine line · Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

The tattoo shows a detached house with a pitched roof, a chimney, several paned windows, a front porch with steps, and a shrub or tree on each side. It is drawn in thin, even black outlines with no shading or fill. The photograph is black and white and the tattoo sits on the upper arm against a plain pale background.

Find an artist for this

Take it to an artist as a reference. A good artist will make it yours rather than copy someone else's tattoo.

A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mrs Okafor had the key to number nine on a shoelace round her neck, which is how I knew she was not coming back for the rest of her things. You do not wear a key like that unless you have stopped trusting pockets. Stood on the porch steps with our van idling behind her, she looked up at the chimney the way you look at a man who owes you money.

Keep reading

Her husband had planted the two privet bushes the spring their boy was born, and they had grown up squarely either side of the door like a pair of bouncers. Every Saturday for eleven years she had clipped them into the same neat shapes. I had watched her do it from the bus stop on Alder Lane, thinking the house looked like it had decided to be polite about itself.

She asked me to help with the piano. Four of us tilted it down the steps, swore at the bottom step, and got it level on the pavement. When I climbed back up for the last box I found the front window still lit, one pane of the grid catching the evening, and a note stuck to the glass in her round handwriting: Next people, the pipes knock twice before the hot comes. Be patient with it.

I drove off with her piano and her tangerine tea caddy, and I still think about that note, and the porch light she left burning for whoever came next.

More like this

Black and grey tattoo of a stack of books on the inner forearm near the wrist, with shaded spines and a small star detail.
Stack of books on a forearm
Black and grey shield crest tattoo on the inner forearm, showing animal figures and an open book in fine linework with soft shading.
Shield crest tattoo on a forearm
Black ink blackwork and dotwork tattoo of a curled-up cat in front of rooftops, a sun and waves, inside a circle on the upper arm.
Sleeping cat and town in a circle on upper arm
Black line tattoo of four stacked geometric prisms on the forearm, drawn in a bold single-weight outline.
Stacked prism outline on a forearm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a mountain range and pine forest inside a leaf-shaped frame of branches, with a small moon above, on a forearm.
Mountain landscape in a pine branch frame on a forearm
Black fine line tattoo of a chick hatching from a cracked egg, overlapped by a triangle and circle, on the inner forearm.
Hatching chick with geometric outline on forearm
Black and white photo of a small fine line tattoo of a geometric, origami-style dog head on the inner forearm.
Geometric dog head on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of an isometric stepped island with palm trees on the inner forearm.
Isometric island with palm trees on a forearm
Fine line black tattoo of a cat and a dog inside a rectangular frame on a forearm.
Cat and dog in a frame on a forearm
Black and grey circular tattoo of a waterfall between rocks and trees on a forearm, shaded in a realistic style.
Waterfall landscape in a circle on a forearm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a stippled wave inside an outlined triangle on the side of a thigh.
Wave inside a triangle on a thigh
Small black fine line tattoo of a simple house with a chimney, windows and a door, on a hairy lower leg above a shoe strap.
Small line drawing of a house on a leg

From the plentytattoo archive, uploaded by a user. Is this your work? Ask for credit or removal.