Western Tattoos

The western traditional style of tattooing—marked by thick outlines and heavy black shading—is often viewed in one of two ways; as a genre of work, like black and grey or neo-modern, or as a historical reference point to the origins of the electric era. 

     

"Western Traditional is an iconic style. Like in early medieval art where the meaning of an image carries more weight than its faithful representation of reality. Old School style is a distillation of what we see in the natural world,” 

J.D. O’Kelly, Electric City Tattoo