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On the last episode of Ink Master Shock Wars, one of the competition's most infamous

veterans return.

Christian Buckingham.

Immediately shaking up the game.

That was a flat, boring-ass tattoo.

I guess I'll just treat my client like and I'll win tattoo of the day.

Well, maybe you'll do a good tattoo then.

I don't know.

Oh, yeah.

Or maybe you can go back to Snitchita and go tell on everybody else like you did with these

guys.

In the elimination tattoo.

The veterans had the power.

We're going to break this little cool kids club up.

Artistic skin design.

Yeah, it's going to happen like that.

Unkindness art.

Batapuss conquering the land.

Allegory art.

It almost makes me feel like they're onto us.

Hey, April, I think that background's too much.

This competition is so stressful.

I'm cracking.

Just kind of do what you feel like you need to do it.

I don't have a clue of what the I'm doing.

In the elimination, Black Spade Tattoo, Artistic Skin Design, and Bone Face Ink were the

bottom three shops.

Artistic Skin Design.

If you want it to be anatomically correct, you need a laser.

I feel very insulted when you say that you want to laser our tattoo off.

I didn't do the tattoo.

You did.

Black Spade Tattoo.

There is not a spot on this thing that is solid.

Bone Face Ink.

This little green guy on the left.

One eye is round and outside of the bottom of the eyelid, and the other eye is squared off

and tucked inside the eyelid.

It's totally jacked, man.

Boneface Inc, you do not have what it takes to be master shop.

No, G.

It's all focused.

Eight shops remain to take on returning veteran shops.

But only one will earn a $200,000 prize and the title of master

shop.

So is the pressure getting to you guys?

We'd be lying if we said it's not.

I already told you guys, I like your work.

And we were looking at you guys like, hey, these might be people who we do good.

We'll help you out.

You know, something like that.

But are you guys at that point where you're just giving up?

I don't give up on anything.

You guys need to be a presence in this house.

Hell yeah.

And I know you're a girl, and you can get pissed.

Like, every woman on Earth has that inner scary chick.

Use that every time somebody comes at you.

You have to be a superhuman in here to make it to the end.

As far as the alliance, our plan works out perfectly.

Another veteran went home.

But the next competitor may be the new top dog.

Christian came in.

He's already been to the finale.

Where are they going to pull other teams from now?

Everyone from the finale.

The finale.

Everybody from the finale or winners.

Um, no, they can't bring winners.

They can bring winners.

They can bring winners.

They can?

They can bring whoever the they want to bring.

You're halfway through this competition, but the toughest challenges are yet to come.

Only one shop will earn $200,000, a feature in Inked Magazine, and the title of Ink Master.

Hell yeah.

And for the first time ever, the title of Master Shop.

Now standing in your way are the next returning veterans.

They both competed in season six, representing Black Cobra Tattoo, Matt Oba,

and Katie McGowan.

Two veterans that made it so far in the competition.

It's a bulletproof team.

Matt made it to the finale once before.

I made it through about 75% of the competition.

Now that we're here as a team, everybody needs to watch out.

Today, you had to use consistency to replicate a fine work of art.

Matt and Katie's are the two bottom tattoos.

If Katie's canvas walked by me, I'd go, what is that?

Your colors are completely different than the colors of the painting.

Biggest problem for me is the face.

It looks like Wilma Flintstone.

You just made some really inconsistent decisions.

No matter who's here this time, there's nobody that's going to stop us from getting to the

finale.

We want it more than anyone else could possibly want it.

And we have a point to prove.

Matt, Katie, good to see you guys.

Welcome back.

Hello.

Thank you.

So how are you guys planning on working as a team?

The things that I don't do well at, he excels in and vice versa.

So we're just a really good match.

Well, this week is designed to put your shop to the ultimate test.

Please join the other artists.

These guys have a long history working together.

They're master and apprentice.

They're going to be a huge threat to everybody.

This week, we're testing consistency.

Consistency is being able to maintain the same style and technique throughout an entire piece

of art.

For this flash challenge, your canvases all have loved ones with a condition that has permanently

changed their appearance.

Oh.

Now, sometimes, this can bring unwanted attention and embarrassment that they live with every

day.

To show their support and solidarity, your canvases want an exact replica of their loved one's

condition permanently tattooed on their skin.

Not easy.

No.

Let's meet your canvases.

Oh, my god.

Hi, guys.

Thanks for joining us.

One by one, please tell us what you'd like done.

I'd like to get a tattoo of my son's insulin pump on my side.

I want to get a replica of his skin grafts from a burn on my leg and foot.

This is my grandson, and I'm getting a replica of his cochlear implant on my head.

This is my daughter, Liliana, and I would like a replica of her scar across my stomach.

I would like to get a tattoo replica of his zipper scar on my chest.

Good job.

Tom, what's going on, bud?

Brave little kids.

Today, we're asking you to shed the pressures you have in this room, be human, and be good

tattooers for these folks today.

This is what it's all about, actually.

Old Town Ink, you won the last elimination tattoo, so you get the power to pick your canvas.

This is not what we expected today.

I'm going to push so hard to make the best tattoo I can and make these kids and these parents

happy.

We're going to choose grandma and the cochlear implant.

Thank you.

OK.

Remaining canvases, one by one, please choose a skull.

Basilica tattoo.

Black spade tattoo.

Unkindness art.

Hey, hey, hey.

Allegory arch.

Black cobra tattoos.

Pens and needles.

Hi.

Artistic skin design.

Classic trilogy tattoo.

OK, artists, if you win, your shop will have the power to assign all the human canvases for

the next elimination tattoo.

You have three hours, and your time starts now.

Hello, hello.

Is this crazy?

Today, the artists want to do exact replicas so that the children can bond with their parents.

Like, look, mommy, daddy has what I have.

You guys should make the poem, like, red.

And I want this color to be blue.

Blue?

You realize this is my body now.

Today, I'm looking for consistency in these tattoos so that every little dial on an object

or any little readout can all be done.

He fell on a bonfire, burnt his leg.

If I have it too, he can say, hey, look, my dad's got the same thing as me.

Same thing happened to my daughter.

Serious?

She was two at the time.

She ended up falling in the fire as well.

It was the scariest moment of my life as a parent.

I was 17 when I had my daughter.

It was a kid having a kid.

She saved my life because I was going down just a really dark path.

As soon as I found out that I was pregnant, I stopped everything.

I got into tattooing.

I'm completely and utterly stoked.

I miss her, but at the same time, it makes me remember what I'm here and what I'm fighting

for, and I'm fighting for my little one.

Game time.

She was born premature, and she had to be in the hospital for a year.

She had nine surgeries in her intestines.

Wow.

Yeah.

When I was six years old, I fell on a pair of hedge clippers, and they went in my face, and

I got this huge scar.

This is like 20 years old.

So I totally know how you feel.

This scar might make you feel embarrassed, but you went through something really hard, and

you survived.

This scar just shows you that you're stronger than what you went through.

Two hours left.

Two more hours.

It's going so fast down there.

Yeah.

This is our first day back.

We really want to come in and show that we have what it takes.

So I want Katie to do the lines on this piece, and I'm going to follow up and come in and

do the shading.

Katie, I want to walk about for a minute.

I'm not here to make enemies by any means, but I'm definitely sizing all of the artists up.

I mentioned your finale.

Yeah, yeah.

Congratulations.

I appreciate it.

You've been there.

Yeah.

That's tough.

Aaron's tattooing, and she's killing it.

I want tattoo.

Gekko?

I decided to sit this one out and let Aaron do the whole tattoo.

That way, every line, every gradient is consistently the same.

How we doing?

Nolan and I came here to win or lose as a team.

There is no team captain.

We're just a team.

Here, give it a try.

Yeah, there you go.

I think Allegory, Old Town, and Unkindness have one stronger player.

To me, if it's just one person dragging dead weight all the way, I don't think that's a master

shop.

Four, three, two, one.

That's it.

Machines down.

Time is up.

No more ink.

Is it awesome?

Oh, my god.

Aw, that's my baby.

That was so awesome working with you.

Thank you so much.

You're so welcome.

Got a rad little guy with you.

Yeah.

All right, guys, time to critique your work.

Let's start with Old Town Ink.

Why did you guys pick this particular piece?

I immediately felt some with this kid.

He has Axenfeld Ritter syndrome.

His 139 surgeries have been on his eyes.

I wanted him to see it before he goes blind again.

Oh, no.

It's incredible for him to get to see his grandma get tattooed.

understanding that he's going to lose his sight at some point.

Very clean.

I love the fact that she got her own little touch of color in there.

The color's bright.

Solid job.

What do we say?

Perfect?

Perfect.

Show them perfect.

Unkindness art.

There it is.

Same as mom.

You're right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You did an incredible job replicating that piece.

Consistency is perfect.

I mean, the little wire and the plug-in, the drop shadow, and how closely it's tucked to a

real ear.

Very nice tattoo.

Thank you.

Allegory Arts.

We did a tattoo of Ethan's insulin pump.

It's very cool that you incorporated the pouch.

I love the camo pattern.

The colors look solid and consistent.

I think it's a great job.

Thank you.

Pins and needles.

What did you get done here today?

I got replicated the third degree burn scars.

You replicated it with a lot of really light, light shading.

It looks very smooth and consistent.

It already looks like an old scar, which is very cool.

You actually made the outside look like the graph piece coming on.

Very precise.

You guys show off.

Thank you.

Artistic skin design.

I got a replica of my daughter's surgeries from when she was a newborn.

Man, I just got to say, this is one of the most intense ones of the day.

This mother being willing to put a huge scar across her midriff is just intense.

You guys did it soft.

When this heals on her, it's going to lighten up and fall out enough to be a perfect replica.

Couldn't have been better.

Thank you.

Basilica tattoo.

Nice, solid, clean, crisp outline.

Great little attention to detail.

I think it's super cool that y'all added more to it.

Makes it just look like a tattoo and not some little technical gadget.

Killer tattoo, guys.

Classic trilogy tattoo.

Tattooing in this body part on this placement is very tough, and you guys do it very crisp.

Best tattoo you've done here.

Black Spade.

The kid's name and the scar tissue above it, giving it its own little touch.

Very cool.

Technically very smooth, very soft, very nice shading.

I think you did a great job, guys.

Next up is Black Cobra Tattoo.

Katie's consistent solid black outline.

That's definitely you back in the house.

Really smooth application, Matt, and the shading.

Overall, I like the little drop shadow and the softness, yet very dark and bold and solid.

Looks like a perfect sticker.

Well done.

Us winning the skull pick at this point is so important because we just got here, and we have

a lot to prove.

We need to win this.

Obviously, we can't do the entire painting.

This is a canvas from hell.

If you were going to become Ink Master, you should be able to accommodate me.

Just chill.

Just chill.

This one's really rough.

There's a lot to do here.

I'm going to go try not to have a panic attack?

Yeah.

We just signed our own death warrant.

All right, guys.

Consistency day.

Black Cobra back.

Matt and Katie broke in nicely.

They did a nice, smooth, consistent tattoo.

And overall, a solid performance.

Talk to me about artistic skin design.

It came out looking like a scar.

I mean, what they did is they focused on the depth and the shadows and the texture, and they

did a pretty good job recreating it.

Unkindness art, another great job, man.

Aaron just made it super tech, super clean.

You couldn't do a more consistent tattoo here.

I'm really glad that everybody had a feel good day, because this next elimination tattoo is

not going to be such a feel good experience.

Should we let them know?

Yeah.

All right, let's do it.

Today, you used consistency to help your canvases stand in solidarity with their loved ones.

All bull aside, no stinkers today.

When you guys tattoo this way with purpose and intention and meaning, your work shows it.

Treat everything as if it's this important to you, and you can actually excel.

Everybody did great.

Somebody's got to win, though.

The judges have decided that the winner of today's flash challenge is

Unkindness art.

The details you put in there, the little import jack and the cable and the drop shadow underneath

it, perfect.

Doom and Aaron, you'll have the power to assign all the human canvases in the next elimination

tattoo.

This is amazing.

The original nine teams are now an endangered species.

Any time one of us can get an advantage, it's pretty important.

We can all head back to the loft.

Well, what do you guys think?

You glad to be back?

In some weird way, it's like we never left.

Don't let the nice vibe fool you.

There's some monster tattooers here for sure.

Oh, yeah.

And they're warmed up.

But a lot of the teams are so strong, they're doing like these big, elaborate pieces.

And I'm like, simple, straightforward, well-executed, never goes home here.

Right.

These guys don't know what the judges are looking for.

We do.

Something crazy is probably going to happen.

Yeah.

I can feel it.

Be ready for some curveballs.

Welcome to your next elimination tattoo.

The strength of your shop got you this far.

Keep it up, and you'll have one more week to prove that your shop deserves the first ever

title of Master Shop.

Hell yeah.

Matt and Katie, as the veteran artists, it's on your shop to prove that you deserve to be

here by overcoming your weaknesses.

Last time you competed, there was one elimination tattoo that landed you both in the bottom.

I hope you worked on it, man.

Now you'll get another crack at it.

Here it goes.

There is no better test of consistency than tattooing a famous work of art.

Ooh.

Yeah, that's a bummer.

Of course.

God damn it.

The last time I tattooed a famous work of art, it sent me home.

Using consistency, you need to perfectly replicate your painting down to the brush stroke.

Paintings have a million brush strokes, hundreds of hours worth of work put into them.

And when you only have a few hours to do the tattoo, it's almost impossible to get the job

done.

And for this elimination tattoo, you and your teammate will both tattoo on the same canvas.

Both of you have to do a fair amount of the tattoo.

The biggest thing about this, it needs to look like the painting.

Colors have to be dead on.

Application has to be dead on.

You have to hit exactly what you see in front of you.

Let's meet your canvases.

Unkindness Art, your shop won the flash challenge.

That means that you have the power to assign the canvases.

This is a huge advantage.

So make the most of it.

replicating paintings on skin is extremely difficult.

What were you going to get done?

Gustav Klimt's The Kiss.

That's a good one.

Our strategy is pretty much to try and look after our alliance as much as we can.

This is definitely going to be difficult.

The creation of Adam on the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo.

And were you set on the whole extension of God touching Adam?

Definitely one, you know, God and Adam.

It happened!

Self-Portrait in Felt Hat by Vincent van Gogh.

Van Gogh?

A million brushstrokes?

The guy went crazy painting this himself.

No, thank you.

Saint Jerome writing by Caravaggio on my right thigh.

I will never do a Caravaggio.

The Witch's Sabbath by Francisco Goya.

Awesome.

That is a terrible tattoo.

There's too many things going on.

And I just don't believe in dead hanging babies.

I don't want anything to do with that.

Dancers at the Bar by Edgar Degas.

The ballerinas are head to head.

Dancers at the Bar by Edgar Degas.

You're gonna compare them to each other.

They gotta be apples to apples from the reference, too.

I think that we should give the dancers so we can compare apples to apples what they both

can do.

Okay.

I am nervous, and I'm also not nervous.

I'm pretty sure that Unkindness is just gonna make sure that they have their asses covered

and us, too, and themselves out.

Here you go.

You?

One by one, please name on the bottom of your skull.

Pin.

Don't look at that.

Clay's tattoo.

Holy.

Last thing we need today.

We're going to have to be touched by God to finish this tattoo.

Artistic skin design.

Yeah.

Head-to-head calories.

That's going to be insane.

Black cobra tattoos.

The silica tattoo.

We don't care.

We're going to kill it.

Going head-to-head, it's going to be really obvious who screws up.

This is going to be a total pit fight.

Black speed tattoo.

Nice.

I actually own that painting, too.

The kiss is the easiest painting to replicate.

If Black Spade messes it up, there's no excuse.

Game over.

Caravaggio.

So much fun.

Allegory arts.

I don't know what the is going down.

Is unkindness gunning for allegory?

This Saint Jerome piece is probably the hardest one of the day.

It's awful.

Unkindness art.

That painting is not going to be easy to recreate.

This is not the painting I would pick if I had the skull choice.

What are you guys doing?

You'll have six hours to tattoo a famous work of art on your canvas.

Based on your work, one shop will be out.

Good luck.

DJ, nice to meet you.

Bring good hands.

For this elimination tattoo, these teams really need to show consistency so that their tattoo

has the same look, feel, mood that the original painting has.

We have to do something that is going to be done in something around five hours.

One of the biggest challenges in recreating these fine works of art is they are too big and

too detailed to recreate the entire painting as a tattoo.

You have to be smart and choose a portion that you can finish.

Obviously, we can't do the entire painting.

The most important section of this painting is them two holding each other.

They're beautiful.

You want to see her legs.

She's falling to her knees to her lover, which is the most important part to me.

This is a canvas from hell.

Your eyes are way too big for this tattoo.

I'm very happy that you're strong to your feelings, but all that would be too much in six

hours.

I feel that if you were going to become Ink Master, you should be able to accommodate me.

All right.

Just chill.

Just chill.

I'm frustrated, and I absolutely do not want to be on the bottom again.

He is my favorite artist, and I'm an art teacher.

Carbaggio is rad, but it's got so much detail in it.

It's so contrast heavy.

It's absolute .

That is a lot of black.

Doom and Erin, I love you both, but what the ?

There is a ton of detail.

I'm worried that we're not going to have enough time to do all this, which is why I'm stressing.

I don't want to be stressed anymore because it makes it that much worse.

Well, I'm sorry, but we handle things differently.

I know.

I'm not trying to like.

I know you're not doing it on purpose.

Well, you're not even letting me finish.

I'm trying to, like, explain, like, if we focused in on just this central figure.

Saint Jerome?

Yeah.

We wouldn't have to do, like, the skull on the books.

That would really be the smartest way to do it.

I'm super into it.

God, I just hope she goes for it.

We will sell this to her.

We had a big change of plans.

We're going to do Saint Jerome, the most key part of it.

You're not doing the whole thing?

No.

In six hours, there's no way to do the whole thing.

I mean, I'm a little bummed because, like, this image right here is, like, my favorite.

You know, and.

I get you.

Thank you for being cool.

Yeah, no problem.

As long as it looks sick, that's all I care about.

Awesome.

All right.

All right, guys.

You have six hours to show your consistency by tattooing a famous work of art.

Your time starts now.

All right, let's do this.

Today we want to show consistency, and that means these artists have to be very smart about

which portion of the painting they attack and how they execute that portion.

That's nice.

Replicating the painting stroke for stroke is not realistic in six hours.

So I'm expecting them to hit the colors and tones and the actual mood and look of that painting.

All right, ready?

Bring it.

What is tricky is I want to make sure we get what we get, too, because this is a lot of work

in this one.

Our canvas came in today wanting the Sistine Chapel's creation of Adam on his chest.

You know, the hard part is, you know, it's a painting that took years to do.

Oh, you got six hours.

You know what I mean?

We're zooming in on the hands, and we're going to put it on this guy's forearm.

I'm doing the smart thing.

I think you should end it a little higher.

Really?

Yes.

We just really lucked out.

Both Dane and I have tattooed Van Gogh paintings.

We're going to copy this portrait exactly.

Definitely a lot of texture.

Four hours remaining.

Four more hours.

I haven't come see if y'all have it up yet.

As if I don't feel like throwing up already.

Do you want me to get you a bucket?

Yeah, please.

Might need like two or three.

It took somebody years of their life to paint this thing.

You guys got six hours.

You got six hours.

It's cool.

No big deal, no pressure.

No pressure at all.

There's a reason that these things hang in the Louvre and in the Met, because they're phenomenal.

And I grew up in Alabama.

That's all I got.

How you guys doing?

Good.

Eva, do you always do all the work?

That's a very complicated answer.

One thing I'm always looking out for in this competition is allies.

Unkindness, allegory, and artistic skin design are clearly an alliance, and that's a lot of

numbers in a house like this.

What's up, Katie?

Hey.

How you doing?

Doing good.

Good.

Christian is acting like all buddy-buddy, but I don't know him well enough to know if he has

an ulterior motive.

Hey, just, you know, Katie's colors are looking very nice and crisp and clean.

My biggest concern at this point is just making sure that we win this head-to-head.

So just on the direct, like, one-to-one comparison, he's over there blocking and way too dark

on that for this.

Jeez Louise.

If they want to do a tribal painting, they can do a tribal painting.

I'm fine with that.

They're doing a nice job.

I don't think they're going to flub it at all, but I think you're making more accurate color

choices.

Christian and I are doing a great job working well as a team.

All we need to do is just execute today.

We need to prove to Black Cobra that we came here to play, and no matter what they can produce,

we're going to kick them in the dirt each time.

Final hour, guys.

Final hour.

There we go.

Two people chatting.

Yeah, there's a lot to do here.

This is tricky.

The more I look at this tattoo, the more details I find.

This one's really rough.

Cool, though.

We're worried that we got lured in by the beauty of this painting, and now we just signed

our own death warrant.

I'm going to go try not to have a panic attack?

Yeah.

All right.

I just don't see much of anything to this point that I can tell what the going on.

The biggest thing about this whole challenge is the choices people make on where to end the

paintings, the choices people make, the size and how much to zoom in.

Today is that day where one of the strongest teams in the competition

It's going to get her eyebrows in there.

We've got two minutes.

Don't skip it.

Just move on.

I'm looking at something that should be the tattoo of the day.

But you know what?

It's not going to be.

Get the nails real quick, just real quick.

Why?

Because ES is moving super slow, and it's not finished.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

That's it.

Machines down.

Time is up.

No more ink.

Quit torturing this poor .

All right, all right, all right, jeez.

You're done.

What do you think?

Wow, it's incredible.

Thank you.

I wish I could have thrown some more into the skin, but nothing's up at all in any way.

Black Spade's tattoo looks horrible.

Nobody cares about the yellow nonsense.

All people care about is faces.

And you messed those faces up so bad.

So I think I'm better than everyone else.

You're annoying, dude.

That's just rude.

There's a cool kid club here, and I think he's not the only one in the house that sees it.

This is inconsistent, and I think it's insane.

Your tattoo.

That piece was ugly, man.

You guys should be at the bottom.

Oh, really?

Over you?

It was in contrasting.

Oh, my god.

I thought it was bad.

If you want realness from me, kick it real.

Dude, sarcasm to me, it's awesome.

I'm all about it.

You're annoying, dude.

You're loud.

You always kick a little funny, wise joke and .

But seeing that his tattoo is ugly, that's just rude.

Let's not all act like we're all super respectful.

What are you talking about?

You came across like it's insulting to somebody who is so much better to say something.

You know, it's some high school here, man.

There's a cool kid club here, and I think he's not the only one in the house that sees it.

You just heard me.

I mean, I definitely agree with Christian.

I see unkindness, and I see allegory, and I see artistic skin.

They're so dismissive.

Yeah, man.

Do I think I'm better than everyone else?

Listen, there's a vibe coming.

Like, maybe check that.

Today, you had to show consistency by replicating a famous work of art, Matt and Katie.

This challenge was designed to test your weaknesses.

Black Cobra, you're up first.

You tattooed Dancers at the Bar by Degas.

You did a great job capturing the look of this painting.

I don't think that anybody could realistically match up stroke per stroke, everything in the

painting.

But capturing the feel and the mood and the tone are the big things for me.

Y'all really did a great job with that.

I appreciate it.

Thanks.

Basilica, you tattooed dancers at the bar as well.

Obviously, you're competing with the room, but in this particular case, you went head to head

with Black Cobra.

The whole thing is just missing that punchy black.

Anywhere where there's an outline on this painting is really heavy black, like tar.

You guys don't look as deliberate with your black as the painting was.

Black Cobra really punched it in, and that's what makes it really strong.

This is a tricky day, because the guy that you think is going to take it to the end can be

gone today.

So hit these things hard.

Unkindness art.

You tattooed the Witch's Sabbath by Goya.

The color palette and the contrast, you guys don't particularly hit.

The main thing is that this is a dark figure in the center.

Your tattoo looks light and happy.

If you look in the mouth, the mouth of the goat curls down, and yours actually just goes up.

Very tough grab for yourselves.

If you're really playing this game, then give this to somebody you want out of here.

Old Town Inn.

You tattooed the milkmaid by Vermeer.

You would have been better off leaving some elements out.

The table spent hours on that and then ran out of time and couldn't finish the head wrap,

the shirt, the face.

I mean, not only does it not look like this woman, I don't think it looks like a woman.

The arm, where the thumb connects to the wrist that's pouring the jug, you're missing that

whole dark, black, rich shading.

The consistency issue here is where I feel like it falters the most.

Classic trilogy tattoo.

You tattooed Creation of Adam by Michelangelo.

Definitely the most consistent tattooing that I've seen from you guys.

I like the cracked elements of the ceiling.

The anatomical reproduction is really, really nice.

And there's just no doubt as to what this thing is.

I would not have expected this from you guys.

Allegory Arts.

You tattooed St.

Jerome writing by Caravaggio.

This is undeniably the blackest painting, but you miss the richness of the black.

It's not technically put in that solid.

Ultimately, the way it's left is kind of a drag because the skull is a vital part of this

piece, and it looks unfinished.

Y'all just did the skull on a book.

I would have been stoked.

Me too.

It's too bad because it's such a strong painting.

Pins and Needles.

You tattooed Banks of the Sand by Manet.

I think y'all captured the look of the painting.

But if you get in and start looking at it, the boat shape isn't the same.

The horizon line isn't the same.

The shape of the trees isn't the same.

Those structures in the back are totally lost in the tattoo.

But you guys definitely worked your ass off to get the textures, to get the brush strokes.

The look of the painting is primarily achieved.

Thank you.

Thank you, guys.

Black Spade Tattoo.

You tattooed The Kiss by Gustav Klimt.

The figures being undone.

Big problem.

You saved the faces and the hands until the last 45 minutes of a six-hour tattoo.

Y'all are insane.

Her face is what we call busted.

Her nose, where is it?

Her lips, a red smear.

Had you chosen to tattoo this part first, you would have a finished tattoo.

You guys would be solid as a rock.

But now you're not.

Artistic skin design.

You tattooed self-portrait and gray felt hat by Van Gogh.

You definitely got the brushstroke feel.

For this painting to work, it is capturing the warmth, the palette, the feel, the direction.

And you guys did that.

So way to not buckle under pressure and just work within your means.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Judges, time to announce Tattoo of the Day.

Classic Trilogy really made a smart play and turned potentially Nightmare into a small, clean,

very legible tattoo.

But as far as capturing the overall look of a whole painting, Artistic Skin Design really

nails it for me.

Artistic Skin Design is the one and only.

The judges have decided the best tattoo of the day goes to Artistic Skin Design.

Thank you.

As the jury appears, you must all deliberate and put one shop up for elimination.

Head back to the lock.

Actions speak louder than words, my dude.

Your technique of doing, we haven't been able to finish.

You can't whip it around like that and make it seem like it's my fault.

You're not finishing, my dude.

You dropped the ball, man.

How is that team we dropped the ball?

It's a team.

If you drop the ball, I'm going to tell you.

All we got to do is communicate, keep a positive attitude, and go forward.

Come on, man.

I don't get frustrated.

I don't get tight.

Well, I do.

You can't.

You're supposed to be cool, calm, and collected.

Nobody, nobody, don't tell me how I'm supposed to be.

This is my shop.

This is Black Spade.

It's on the line.

So we're here as the jury appears to determine which shop should be put up for elimination.

I have to vote Black Spade.

Of course.

The lines that are there are wicked, scratchy.

All of them?

Yeah.

They gave you guys the easiest one, and you dropped the ball.

Yeah, it's sort of a paint-by-numbers tattoo.

was not as easy as you might think.

I mean, I've done limped tattoos, so I know.

But I mean, it's pretty accurate.

And for the completed parts, I think they did a really good job.

Look at Allegory's.

I don't think there was any chance of completing this.

On a really positive note, your guys' shading in the face was very nice.

Judging just on consistency, I still have a couple of issues.

You added some shading in the forehead that takes away from the kind of dome look of the original.

Allegory, they did the whole face first and made sure the face was really in there, because

that's like the focal point.

That's the first thing you look at.

I'm going to do with what I like as a painting more.

How about as a tattoo?

That's what we should be voting on.

Friendship Society.

Today we're testing consistency with famous works of art.

People fell flat on their bad decisions and bad plan of attack.

Allegory arts without a doubt.

Going in and trying to replicate a brush stroke in this instance is the wrong way to go.

You can't replicate a brush stroke that's this big and a tattoo this big.

Right.

Black Spade, they attempted to do the kiss.

Look at the outline between the two hands.

That is undeniable.

That is nonexistent.

Technically, this is not really that good of a tattoo.

Let's move along to unkindness art.

Swing and a miss here.

It's way more pleasurable to look at.

No, but this does not reflect the gruesome bitterness of that painting.

Yeah.

The goat looks good to me.

But it's not rich enough.

Right.

We should also not forget that the jury of peers is going to select the shop to put up.

And I don't envy them at all.

Mm-hmm.

I agree with that.

All right.

Want to get them?

All right, jury of peers, who are you putting down for elimination?

The jury of peers has decided to vote.

For Allegory Arts to go to the bottom.

All right.

In the bottom, we'll see Allegory Arts, Black Spade Tattoo, and Unkindness Arts.

We'll see all of y'all downstairs.

I knew it was coming.

I'm not surprised.

Let's go do this.

Let's get it done.

Today, you had to prove your shop's consistency.

Based on your work, one shop will be packing their machines.

Let's go to the jury of peers.

Why did you vote Allegory Arts to the bottom?

We voted half Black Spade, half Allegory, pretty much.

And they just inched out a little?

Yeah.

I voted for Black Spade.

And when me and Aaron handed out the skulls, we gave them this one because it's the one that's

the most easily translatable to a stencil.

What's easy and what's hard is absolutely subjective.

Guys, what I'm going to say is when you have a huge painting and you're doing a small tattoo,

you can't emulate every brushstroke.

I'm not going to fight back for an unfinished tattoo, but we are not consistently making the

same decisions.

Black Spade have pretty much the same type of flaws.

Black Spade, you could have had a decent tattoo if you finish the faces.

The face and the tones, that's actually easy.

It was more of a planning thing between us and the structuring of the time.

For me, I think the best done tattoo is the one that looks the least like it, and that's unkindness.

Best one done technically, you're saying?

Yeah.

It shows the most promise, but it looks more like a children's book.

This is weird, trying to tattoo paintings in six hours.

Right, but these guys got the Sistine Chapel and crushed it.

Y'all made the decision to take this painting.

You made the decision to crop it this way.

Still, I don't hate our tattoo.

It's the tattoos that are closest to the imagery that we're looking for, and that's it.

All right, guys, it is time to determine who is going home.

My vote is for allegory arts, primarily because of how unfinished it is.

My vote is based on technical application, black spade tattoo.

Chris.

Unkindness art.

Really?

Yeah.

We're not looking for what we like or what I want to hang on my wall.

I'm looking for what looks the closest to what we ask people to do, which was on painting.

I think it's safe to say that we're all three divided.

I'm immovable.

You're firm on black spade.

The idea.

that you're going to color yellow for hours before the black is done is insane.

You're going on consistency.

This is inconsistent.

You spent the most time in the robe, right?

That's where you show the consistency?

Yeah, I put two hours in it.

It's not the pattern that's in the painting.

This is a tough one for you guys, but you needed to do those figures first and then stick

to the patterns and the colors and the way that that robe was.

It's inconsistent to the pattern.

I vote for Black Spade.

The judges have decided Black Spade Tattoo.

You do not have what it takes to be master shop.

You two guys have a big problem figuring out how to work together.

And I think it's affected every tattoo you've done.

It's just how the cookie crumbles, man.

Please pack your machines and move out.

I'm used to playing Ink Master in a whole different way.

I'm sure he is too.

Absolutely.

It's just one of them things that can't be.

That's the way it goes.

I believe in simplicity, but my man thinks different.

We weren't able to come together as a team, and it was frustrating me.

You can't let your frustration overcome.

No, I'm going to be frustrated because my shop is on the line, right?

You still my man?

We just can't do this together.

You know what I'm saying?

No problem.

No problem.

On the next episode.

of Ink Master.

My enemy's enemy is my friend.

Absolutely.

He wants to form an alliance with us.

Why not literally have all of the strongest?

I don't know that I'm ready to shake hands with the devil either.

He competed in season one and came in second place.

This cool kids club is in a little more trouble than they realize.

I don't have anything to worry about.

No?

I can't believe you guys tattooed it the way you tattooed it.

That's whacked out of proportion.

If you thought this is going to fly, then you guys are crazy.

Hold on.

You all right?

Hey.

Don't stand up.

Don't stand up.

Don't stand up.

Don't stand up.

Dude, don't stand up.

Just sit down.