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I'm not itchy yet and the peel is done. It's like waiting for the other shoe to drop.

I love Christian Lanouette's work.  He's out of Montreal. https://www.instagram.com/christianlanouette/
My tattoo artist, Myra Oh, out of Jacksonville, FL: https://www.instagram.com/myraoh/
I don't know if these artists are under-recognized, but I'm pretty intrigued by all of the work coming out of Wonderland Tattoo in Portalnd.  I don't know that I will every try to get a piece done there since I prefer more traditional tattoos on me, but their work sure is pretty. Alice Carrier, Alice Kendall, and Kirsten Holliday:
https://www.instagram.com/alicerules/
https://www.instagram.com/alicestattoos/
https://www.instagram.com/onholliday/
Another one I'm not sure is under-recognized or that I'd want to be tattooed by, but whose work I really admire is David Hale.  His whole approach to tattooing is interesting, though he's taking a sabbatical right now unfortunately.  I have a print of his on my desk. http://davidhale.org/flesh/

I thought we could use a thread that shined a little light on some of the artists we love, but aren't necessarily very renowned or getting the recognition we feel they deserve.
Lets get the ball rolling....
I've been a fan of the work of James Tex of Deadly Tattoos inc, located in Calgary, Canada, for a few years now. I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with his work, and some members here might even know him personally and/or have tattoos from him.
Anyways, I stumbled across him a while back in another tattoo forum where a member showed off the progress of a Samurai sleeve he was getting done from Tex. I was blown away by his work, and to my great viewing pleasure he had a fairly large online portfolio on his shops website: Deadly Tattoos inc.
I'm not sure if everyone agrees with me in that he's "low key", but I can't say that I have read an article about him or seen any pictures of his tattoo except on his website (and obviously the forum I mentioned).
Here's a few samples of his work from his online portfolio:

By Marie Sena.

Just got an impromptu sparrow from Ashley at Bulletproof Tiger Tattoo here in Manchester
http://bulletprooftigertattoo.com/artists/ashley/
 
 

super cool !

Bless this tattoo, bless it so much.  I saw it and flashed back to W+G going to the moon for cheese.

Bless this tattoo, bless it so much.  I saw it and flashed back to W+G going to the moon for cheese.

By Franz Stefanik, of Okey Doke Tattoos in Toronto, ON. 

The closest I'm getting to a tattoo this year looks to be the plane ticket for my consultation in March I'm buying tomorrow.  Between my other hobbies and being a college student I really don't have to worry about pacing myself, my life budgets my tattoos for me 

@otisc thanks man! If you go to traditionaltool's IG you can see it with the surrounding sketch. There's going to be another say 6 hours of line work.... Like I said, I tapped out early.... But my understanding is that traditional Japanese back pieces are usually 2 hours every two weeks. Shorter sittings over a longer period. That suits me better: it becomes a discipline that way, a practice. Anyway, thanks again.

Finished this just in time! Chad Koeplinger and Jondix.

The winner of Tattoo of the month November is @havetsherre with this insanely awesome panther tattoo by Steve Byrne. Congrats!! 
The next contest will be announced on the 1st of December! (also, the polling will be much easier, I promise) 
Big thanks to everyone who contributed this month!!
 

Got this one last Monday. By Jon West

got this last friday. By Alix Ge

Here's my panther done by Chad Koeplinger a little over an year ago! Alreadu scarred.
 
Done in like 30-40 minutes!

it was there... i saw it on Raking Light Projects IG post. i'm lucky no one picked it up at that time!
he has some amazing art that's much different than his tattooing. He has a book out, called Inward, that's available thru Tattoo Life Magazine http://www.tattoolifemagazine.com/bookthomashooper/
 and I also recently found out he keeps his website up to date, which is pretty rare in this age of FB and IG... https://thomashooperart.com/
my favorite post has all the backgrounds used for the "The Traveler" print. pretty great stuff. the short little video on this link is also damn cool https://meditationsinatrament.com/2016/09/21/the-traveler/

@Dani forgot to check LST for this thread prior to the convention, so i missed this opportunity. perhaps next year!
@Gingerninja easy to have good taste at the Bay Area Convention.  great artists and amazing tattoos any way you turn.
One last pic. Andrew from Raking Light Projects talked me into picking this one up from Thomas Hooper... I just had to convince the wifey. You can see it hanging at his booth in the prior set of pics.

Cool, glad I can actually participate instead of just posting about my oogling like I usually do.  I got it in April of 2014 and that feels like it was an eternity ago, I was even more of a youngin' then.
Lars Lundquist at Inksmith & Rogers  Admittedly I never took a good healed photo, so the one straight off the table will have to do.

I haven't posted anything in a long time but this is a tattoo I got in October by Scott Sylvia. I plan on booking another appointment with him on Thursday. I'll be sure to post pics. I think I attached the pictures correctly. Let me know if you see it! Thank you all for looking. 

Cool, glad I can actually participate instead of just posting about my oogling like I usually do.  I got it in April of 2014 and that feels like it was an eternity ago, I was even more of a youngin' then.
Lars Lundquist at Inksmith & Rogers  Admittedly I never took a good healed photo, so the one straight off the table will have to do.

finally getting around to this photo flood.  let's see if i'm allowed to upload all these.

i captured this dude's most painful tattoo(s) of his life, administered by Thomas Hooper...
 

Cool, glad I can actually participate instead of just posting about my oogling like I usually do.  I got it in April of 2014 and that feels like it was an eternity ago, I was even more of a youngin' then.
Lars Lundquist at Inksmith & Rogers  Admittedly I never took a good healed photo, so the one straight off the table will have to do.

In December going up to richmond to see brian bruno and get some more shading on the belly.