Front and center is a graphic octopus design by pioneering ... to make with the show is just how radically the black-and-gray style changed tattoo,” museum exhibition developer Danielle Sommer ...

Once you have one, data show, you'll get more. Today, an increasingly popular style of tattoo art is called black and gray. Black and gray used to be referred to as joint-style or prison-style ...

A popular style of tattooing called "black and gray realism" has its roots in East LA's Chicano culture. It moved from California prisons in the 1970s to high-end tattoo shops worldwide.

To date, the project has taken several sessions and more than 40 hours to ink, and features an octopus ... the black and gray image was meticulously inked by Ou. It’s Ruiz’s first tattoo ...

Although the American traditional tattoo style has had a longer presence in Southern California, the region is more synonymous for its fine-line black-and-gray tradition. That’s part of what ...