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Artist of the Month: Bert Krak

Bert Krak is a tattoo artist working out of Smith Street Tattoo in New York City.

Full back done on model Cat Mcneil.
An Ed Hardy inspired full front piece.

Bert is a highly sought after tattooer for collectors of classic American traditional tattoos.

Panther and stars by Bert. Butterfly and dice by Chad Koeplinger.
Full dragon back piece.

In addition to tattooing, Bert also makes finely crafted tattoo machines.

Back of the head banger.

He has been collecting antique tattoo flash since he started tattooing, and uses these pieces of history to influence his own designs.

Healed chest and fresh butterfly.
Classic battle Royale back piece.

While sticking close to traditional iconography, Bert still has a distinct style in terms of colour palette and heavy lines.

Tiger head on the hand.
Matching peacock calf pieces.

If you’re passing through New York, or live nearby, be sure to set up an appointment with him. You can check out his work at his Instagram here.

Healed eagle, wolf, and panther. With a fresh Polito cowboy.
Another Polito cowboy skull done on influencer Christian Ponisi.

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Artist of the Month: Dan Gagné

Dan Gagné is an artist working at Loveless Tattoo in Montréal, Canada. Dan’s tattoos are perfect for the month of October, and those who love Halloween and horror year round. His work is mainly American traditional and blackwork, and is heavily inspired by horror movies. His work often features monsters and other icons of classic horror movies and stories.

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Bright Creature from the Black Lagoon with unlucky number 13.
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Ghostface from Scream with phone and knife.
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Creepy witch with hard black shadow.
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Fantastic werewolf and full moon.
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Huge mostly blackwork Alien torso piece.
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Creepy crawly spider head tattoo.
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A sinister looking Dracula!
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The Pale Man from Pan’s Labyrinth.
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Norman Bates and loving mother from Psycho.
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Battle of the monsters with Godzilla and King Kong!
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Nasty looking Gremlin. Don’t get it wet!
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Alien from Mars Attacks!
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Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th!
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Creepy skull and vampire bat with red moon.
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A startled looking Leatherface with his pretty mask and chainsaw.
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Matching loving undead.
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Jason Voorhees Vs. Michael Meyers. Friday the 13th and Halloween.
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The Demogorgon! From Stranger Things, featuring the classic light bulbs.
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The mighty Count Orlok from Nosferatu.
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For all the bookworms and halloween lovers. Book, vampire skull, and candles.

What classic Halloween/horror design do you want?

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Artist of the Month: Sergey Vaskevich

Sergey Vaskevich is a tattoo artist from Minsk, working out of Good Sign Tattoo. His work is dark traditional and neo-traditional. His work is dark both in colour, and in imagery. Often featuring devils, demons, ghosts,and occult designs, along with the occasional fetish piece.

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Horrifying bat head.

He has a fantastic imagination, combining often mundane designs with a fantastic mix of death and horror.

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Devil head and mountain range.
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Vampiric looking ladyhead with her own great snake tattoo.
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Knee mandala
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Wicked throat piece of a fiery candle.
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Beautiful harp.
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NSFW fetish/torture piece.
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Spooky occult piece featuring a demon hand making shadows.
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Classic wolf head.
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Fiery bold torch.
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Well and ghost.
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Classic bear head.
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Banging elbow spider.
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Fantastic demon head eating a naked woman.
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Severed ladyhead with moon and crow.

Which piece is your favorite?

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Artist of the Month: Ryan and Matthew Murray

Ryan and Matthew Murray are identical twin tattooers who do brilliant dark, blackwork tattoos in Salem Massachusetts working out of Black Veil Studio. Being in Salem the two are drawn to the darker side of life.

The two men do fantastic, realistic horror and death related artwork. Their pieces are brilliantly realistic and detailed.

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Nosferatu
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Frankensteins monster
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Dark snake
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Black widow spider
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Bat, wolf, cat, and spider
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A burning church
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Thestral from Harry Potter
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Bat
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hanging bat
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Dark woman and spider
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Ouija and spider
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Hogwarts and Snape vs Lupin in werewolf form.
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Rams head
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Crying woman with flowers

Be sure to see them if you’re going through Salem!

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