Josh Lockhart

Josh Lockhart tattoos in the American traditional and neo traditional tradition, and the work shows why those styles have outlasted every trend that came after them. Bold black outlines. Heavy, confident shading. Subjects chosen because they carry weight: skulls and hooded reapers, daggers and serpents, saints and sinners rendered in black and gray.

The work holds up at both scales. A palm sized swallow or a single dagger reads as cleanly as a full thigh piece of a woman’s portrait framed in an ornate mirror. Color shows up rarely and on purpose, which is what makes it land when it does.

If you want a tattoo that looks like a tattoo, built on the rules that make classic work age well, Josh is the artist to talk to.