Old School Tattoo in Madrid
Looking for an artist to make an Old School tattoo? Our tattoo artists create old school style artwork with great visual impact, with thick, solid lines that create a clean, visually powerful tattoo.
What motif do you want to get tattooed? In Old School tattoos, marine themes such as mermaids, anchors, ships, or eagles are common because of their relation to classic American tattoos.
However, the themes you can choose are varied, such as roses or birds, the important thing is that the tattoo rescues the important elements of the old school style, such as the thick and solid lines, and its simplicity, giving it that vintage touch that attracts so much attention.
Everything you need to know about Old School Tattooing
The Old School tattoo, also known as traditional American tattooing, is characterized by its solid, simple and clean pieces.
The outer line of the Old School tattoo is characterized by black ink and is made with a considerable thickness, which generates a clean and solid art, well defined, but simple.
The color palette used usually includes black, yellow, green, red and brown.
History of Old School Tattoos
To understand the Old School style it is necessary to refer to its history. This style was created in the United States around the 1920s.
In those years tattoos were frowned upon by society, and the technology of the time was limited, so the instruments to make tattoos and the variety of existing inks were much more precarious.
In the United States, tattoos quickly became associated with the navy, so tattoos with ship, star and anchor motifs are typical.
Later, the themes of American patriotism became more recurrent, due to the context of the war in the 1950s.
Thus, it was also common for motorcyclists to get tattoos with symbols that identified them as a family. And so little by little, tattoos became more frequent.
Why get an Old School Tattoo?
Nowadays, the Old School tattoo retakes the artistic elements of the classic style, but applied with new technologies, machinery and a variety of inks, and interpreted by the creativity of each tattoo artist.
The Old School tattoo is characterized by the creation of pieces with contours of thick black lines, applying an art of great solidity and cleanliness. Old school tattoos are usually simple, and due to their vividness, saturation and hardness they achieve great visual impact.
Another relevant aspect is that in the classic tattoo is given great importance to the shadow, and the background, which is usually full, with saturated colors.
In this way, old school tattoos have a vintage character, with a classic artistic style, but done with modern instruments, with more variety of inks, and expressed by creative artists who give each piece a unique touch.
This is why we can see people proudly wearing their old school tattoos on the streets.
What is a common theme in an Old School tattoo?
The themes of traditional tattoos are commonly related to the navy, and patriotism.
- The use of ships, mermaids, anchors and stars is frequent in the Old School style.
- The anchor represents stability and security, so it is used to express loyalty to family or loved ones.
- The stars symbolize a guide to find a way or return home.
- Heart tattoos to express love are common.
- Eagles are also often tattooed, which was a way of expressing American patriotism. But now they are symbols that are associated with the classic style of tattoos. The eagle symbolizes courage, intelligence and honor.
- Snakes usually symbolize power.
- Skulls the decisions of life.
Although these are some of the most frequent motifs in Old School tattoos, you can choose from a variety of themes, the true traditional style is expressed in the creativity of the tattoo artists and the technique of using thick black lines to outline the image and make simple but striking designs.
Old school tattoos can be done using black ink and grayscale, but it is also common to include bright colors such as red, and a lot of saturation is given to give it that eye-catching touch.
Whether you decide for an Old School tattoo in black or color, the important thing is that the tattoo you wear on your skin is as striking as you imagined it to be.
Looking for a place to get an Old School tattoo in Madrid?
If you are determined to get an Old School tattoo in Madrid, in Circe Tattoo we have artists specialized in the classic style, who will make a simple but impressive piece, in the best old school style.
Do you already know what motif to choose for your tattoo?
In this section you can take a look at the portfolio of our artists and choose the specialist tattoo artist that best suits your style.
