Who do you think deserves some recognition?

[Brock Varty]

Calle at King Carlos

[MadeIndelible]

Iggy Vans, Idle Hand Tattoo in SF. I know of one person on LST that has something from him, but I don't here about him much. Very no frills, solid traditional work.

Tattooing professionally in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1994, Iggy Vans began his career at Erno Szabady's now-legendary studio on Fillmore St., in the Lower Haight, as well as at Erno's sister shop on Front St. in Santa Cruz. He has also tattooed at Everlasting (on McAllister St.), Freddy Corbin's Tattoo 13 in Oakland, Lyle Tuttle's on Columbus Ave. & at the original Picture Machine on Geary Blvd. & 4th Ave.

After all those years moving around, Iggy is very proud to be back in the Lower Haight, as a senior artist on the staff at Idle Hand, since January 2005.

[rightbrigade]

I feel like A lot of people I talk to don't know Brian Bruno, he's my favorite current tattooer. He did a half sleeve on me from wrist to elbow and it came out perfect.

http://absolutearttattoo.net/artwork/1807494.html

[Avery Taylor]

I feel like A lot of people I talk to don't know Brian Bruno, he's my favorite current tattooer. He did a half sleeve on me from wrist to elbow and it came out perfect.

ABSOLUTE ART TATTOO

Brian's tattoos are great. I am also a big fan of Mike Rennie's tattoos. He is another guy that you don't hear about a lot, but puts out great work.

[CultExciter]

Brian and Mike are awesome. Hilarious guys to boot.

[sylvirawr]

Tiny Miss Becca

Ashley Love

Mikael de Poissy

Alix Ge

Kim-Anh Nguyen

[Aussie Tom]

Anyone living in or coming to Melbourne, Australia should really get amongst Fergus Simms tattoos. He has dozens of amazing tattoos from the guys at Smith St. and you can really see their influence in his tattoos.

[metalmancpa]

I'm a fan of Gunnar Gaylord which is why I drove 800 miles from Boston to Columbus to get work done by him.

[Graeme]

Tiny Miss Becca

I've been really impressed with Tiny Miss Becca's tattoos for a while. I think the way that she designs tattoos is really clever because they're on the one hand really nicely rendered, but so efficiently designed.

[CultExciter]

Those Alix Ge tattoos look awfully similar to Mr. Conn.

[justcallmematt]

Dave Lang @High Tide Tattoo in Juneau

Super Awesome guy, and a really solid Tattooer

https://www.facebook.com/hightide907

[cabertosser]

great thread - thanks all for your contributions and for furthering my tattoo education.

i'm really loving the James Tex work noted at the beginning of the thread, and Brian Bruno's stuff noted above.

[TrixieFaux]

How about Harlan Thompson at Pioneer Tattoo in Chicago. I have some friends from Chicago who are friends w/him and have tattoos from him. He guests at Memoir here in LA sometimes.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Harlan-Thompson-tattoos/112869168745266?sk=photos_stream

http://www.harlantattoos.com/http://www.harlantattoos.com/

[Soulrebel152]

Aidan Monahan Aidan Monahan tattoo Another squirrel trying to find a nut at FTW Oakland *F*T*W* Tattoo - Oakland - CA

[CultExciter]

Brandon Munday, down in Greensboro NC. Dude is good.

[Dhopper]

Forrest Cavacco aka Tattoo Forrest at Cobra Custom Tattoo in Plymouth, Ma. TATTOO FORREST

[hogg]

Forrest is a GREAT tattooer and a really nice dude.

[eisen777]

I really want a Forrest tattoo...esp since hes a new england tattooer and Im a typical new england nationalist.

[embers]

this guy matt lentz.

the stuff hes been doing lately is AMAZING. coming into his own. love his roses sooooo much. i want one so bad. i have a couple tattoos from him and he is really heavy handed but super cool and cares about every aspect of your tattoo

Photo by matt_lentz • Instagram

[LosingShape]

Just want to pump up some awesome people who do some rad stuff.

Aron Dubois at Scapegoat Tattoo (Portland,OR) - ~ONLY QUESTIONING~

All round nice guy who does some really cool stuff.

Nathan Kostechko (Based out of Cali but does a lot of travelling) - ... :

Met cool Nate because he guested at Thicker Than Water and love this guy. Does amazing black & grey stippled stuff as well as some rad color pieces.

[Dumpleton]

Not to sure if this guy has been posted, Matty Darienzo, He is an Australian that tattoos at Into You London.

matty d'arienzo | Tumblr

[Joe Shit]

LARA SCOTTON currently in NYC.

POWERHOUSE TATTOO CO. - Jamison Stagaard

MyBloodyArt in SF.

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http://www.dannyderrick.com/

[Avery Taylor]

This thread needs to get going again. I have mentioned all of them before, but I thought I would put it all back up again. Tom Yak, Mike Lucena, and Derrick Snodgrass. Every time I see a tattoo one of these guys has done I am blown away.

[MadeIndelible]

Caz at Seven Seas Tattoo in San Diego.

[fourtotheflush]

Caz is coming into Boston on the 3rd I think.