"Male announcer:" "This season on "Ink Master,"" "it's Peck versus Nuñez." "On the last episode..." " This week no one is safe." "announcer:" "A massive twist rocked the competition." " Double elimination day." "The only word that comes to mind is [bleep]." " The main goal here is to find the top five artists on each team." " You must work in pairs." " How you feeling, bud?" " This is hard [bleep], dude." "One person pulling." "The other person pulling." " She's got to not get pulled." " [sighs]" " Dave is not a team player." "He's out for himself." " He accused me of competing dirty." " Nice guys finish last every [bleep] time." " If you guys want to be [bleep] nice, I'll help you pack." "[dramatic music] announcer:" "At the critique, the judges decided" "John and Sirvone were in the bottom on Team Nuñez, and Nate and Dave were in the bottom on Team Peck." " You'll have one last chance to redeem yourself." "You must face off tattooing head-to-head against your teammate." "♪" " What the [bleep]?" "The girls want Dave out of the competition." " He made his own bed, and now he has to lie in it." "[tattoo machine buzzing]" " I'm going to send his ass packing right now." "♪" " Good job with the liner, man." " I think Sirvone's got me, man." "I think he's got all the texture." "♪ announcer:" "In the elimination..." " John." " I think you went a little dark on the beak." "If you keep the beak lighter it shows more depth in the black." " Sirvone." " Super strong." "Brilliant tattoo." " Basing it on texture, I do believe that Sirvone won." " The judges have decided, John, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." "♪" "Dave." " It's very recognizable, but you got a lot of redness." " Black-and-gray realism is not my strong suit." " Nate." " That is top-notch work." "I mean, I couldn't expect you would ever be in the bottom again." " The judges have decided, Dave, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." "♪ announcer: 14 artists remain, fighting for a spot in their team's final five." "But only one artist will earn a $100,000 prize and the title of Ink Master." "[rock music]" "♪" "[dramatic music]" "♪" " I'm really glad that Dave's gone." " I'm glad too." "I saw him as, like, a two-faced, conniving asshole." " Right now I believe that you and I are the strongest artists on the team." " I don't think we should underestimate anyone at this point." " Absolutely." " But you know that I'm always going to have your back no matter what." "♪" " You know what's bull[bleep] though?" "These girls have been in an alliance." " I didn't know that." " It's been that way from the beginning." " Oh, yeah." " They look out for each other." "None of the guys are doing that." "At the end of the day, it could easily be four girls competing for the title of Ink Master, and all the guys go home." " That's on a team with two of them right now, so..." " We are, but we can't let them protect the other girls." "Every time we have a skull pick, you got to shoot at 'em." " Obviously they're real strong." "I think that we are going to have to stick together." " [bleep] it." "Let's roll with it." "Battle of the sexes." "♪ [rock music]" "♪ [tense music]" "♪" " Welcome, guys." "As the numbers shrink, the competition grows more intense, 'cause in the end, only one artist will win $100,000, a feature in "Inked" magazine, and the title of Ink Master." "And also on the line is a guest spot at Chris' shop Hand Crafted in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, or Oliver's shop Elm Street Tattoo in Dallas, Texas." "Only one team is up for elimination each week as the judges narrow their artists to the top five." "Based on the rotation established in the first flash challenge," "Team Nuñez, you are up for elimination." "This week we're testing... legibility." " Oh." " Legibility is when you look at something and you can tell what it is." " For the flash challenge you must work with a completely unpredictable medium." "♪" "Electricity." " What the [bleep]?" " Using a live 12-volt battery and electrical wires, you must press a hot wire to canvas scorching the design into the canvas." "Hold down the wire for too long, and you'll burn right through the canvas." "Press too lightly, and your design will be unreadable." " I've never handled live wires before." "I'm really, really scared." "I don't know if I'm going to hurt myself, if I'm going to burn myself." "I'm just praying that I don't [bleep] up too badly." "I'm going to cry right now." " Team Peck, not only are you safe from elimination this week, but you're also calling the shots." "You get to assign the overall style for this flash challenge." "Take a minute to discuss what you'd like to assign." "♪" " There's a lot of options." " Something tricky too 'cause you only get one pass on it." " I definitely want to pick something hard for these guys, something that they're going to mess up." "Cool with that?" " Cool." "We got it." " All right, guys." "What have you chosen?" "♪" " Marine life underwater." "♪" " You guys are competing for the skull picks." "This is important." "Put your all into it, because this can get you the canvas you're looking for or put you with the nightmare that you've seen this competition." "So this is your chance to be safe." " The winner of the flash challenge will have the power to assign all human canvases in the elimination tattoo." "You have five hours to create a legible image using only electricity, and your time starts now." "[rock music]" " These artists are not used to working with this type of material to create art." "Burning into the canvas is going to be really slow and tedious, and if they don't focus..." " [bleep]." "Nothing's happening." " They're going to have a really rough time." " Ah!" "It's hot." "♪" " Mental fortitude in this competition is everything." "You have to be centered." "You have to be in your own mind space, and you have to be able to keep everybody else out of it." " Let's do this [bleep]." "[intense music]" " This [bleep] burning the [bleep] out of my hands." " Oh!" "I'm gonna die." "I'm going to [bleep] burn my [bleep]." " What's your plan?" "Wait a minute." "Wait a minute." " I have no goddamn plan except not [bleep] die." "♪" " Ow!" " Yeah, she's going to get hot." " [blows]" " I got this." "I'm going to put up another koi because I really don't know how to use this equipment right now, and I need to play it safe." "Ouch." "Whew." " You're doing it smaller than most people, so better make that [bleep] really [bleep] legible." " I don't want to make it big, because I don't have time." "I can't wait to have the skull pick." "I need to win this flash challenge." "♪" " All right, guys." "Three hours remaining." "♪" " I'm going to do a seahorse." "They're recognizable little suckers." "Ow!" "Mother[bleep]." "Every moment of my life is hell, so everybody knows." "At least the payoff is big, once it gets really hot in your hand, and you see that, like, inch-and-a-half line that you made." "Worth it." " What are you doing, Sirvone?" " I got a little fish tank." "Just keep adding my [bleep] fish." "I don't know what kind of fish that is, but I know it's a fish." "Last week I was fighting for my life." " You made a mess." " I mean, it's crazy." "♪" " I want the skull pick right now." "I've been at the bottom, and if this is a chance for me to get out of it and put somebody else down there, then I'm playing the game right." " One hour remaining, guys." "♪" " [bleep] piss [bleep], [bleep] balls." "[groans] Hey, how are you?" " About as good as yours, and hers, and his." " I have a [bleep] squiggle." "♪" " [gasps]" " Holy [bleep], Kevin." " Are you kidding me right now?" " Have you done this before?" " Look at that [bleep], bro." " You rat bastard." " This [bleep] is scary as hell, but I got my technique down pretty damn quick." "♪" " You even have shading." "[bleep] you." "Kevin's like, "Hang on while I get the drop shadow on the fin."" "That's really going to make it pop."" " I feel like the silhouette of a hammerhead shark, you know what the hell it is." "You know how the heads are, so I do my best to make that legible." "♪" " Ah." "Oh, [bleep]." " Oh, Nikki's [bleep] on fire." " I'm [bleep] pissed, man." "I want nothing to do with this [bleep]." "I look like an idiot." "I never thought that I would fail so hard at something." "Can I just quit now?" "'Cause I'm lighting things on fire." "I hate it." "I'm done." "♪" " Five, four, three, two, one." "That is it." "Time is up." " No more sparkling." " I used every last second." " Everyone on Team Nuñez did horribly." "So happy that this is Team Nuñez's flash challenge and not Team Peck." "♪" " Okay, it is now time to critique your work." "Nikki." " That is a terrible, terrible drawing." " Today was just humiliating." " It's a piss-poor excuse for a porpoise or a dolphin or whatever it is." " This would take an hour." "This took another [bleep] hour." " Luckily this is not sending somebody home." "Don't break, and don't quit." " Sirvone." " Your drawing aesthetic on these fish is very remedial." "You just have some simple outlines." "Yes, it's legible." "You hit certain things and missed others." " Kelly." " I recognize it as a seahorse." "I can kind of see your style and sensibility in it." " It's a broken record." "Everybody had a rough time." "I've seen you produce when it comes to a tattoo." "This challenge really took the wind out of you." " Tito." " The koi fish, as rudimentary as it is, is a legible feature." "The other elements that you have in there aren't quite as legible." " We've already seen one koi from you in the past." "Hopefully you're out of kois 'cause I don't really care to see any more from you." " This is hysterical." "Every person on Team Nuñez [bleep] this thing up, and I love it." " Sketchy." " It's probably one of the hardest mediums" "I've ever worked with, but I didn't overreact on it." "I didn't get pissed off at it." " Well, Sketchy, the actual sketch is much better than most of the others." "There's strong lines on the back." "It is legible." "You can see what it is." " All right, Kevin." "It's a legible image." "You got the silhouettes in the background." "The ones in the distance." " The ability to shade it, you found a way to get darker areas, lighter areas." "Were even able to put a little bit of foreground in with a tiny little guy at the bottom." " I think it also is kind of a large statement to those who really try can do, and a lot of people with negative attitudes about this whole challenge crying about the process instead of just working with it." "It paid off for you." " Thank you." " Eric." " I had a big idea in my head, but once I started, it was pretty hard." " It's sketchy, but for this medium I think that's how it is." "The one thing I'll say about yours is you have the best layout scene of anybody." " Yeah, those top two fish actually have the sense of being underwater." " Thank you." " All right, guys." "Today we're testing legibility." "Really tough outing for everyone." "Chris, this is your team." "Does this worry you going forward?" " They're tattooers, they're a really strong unit, and when it comes to adversity like we saw today, maybe not the strongest crew." " Kevin, Sketchy, and Eric have positive points in their canvas." " For sure." " Eric... the little work he got done... he was headed in the right direction for creating a scene." " Kevin did a really great job in terms of using the whole canvas, getting different values." " Not giving up on it." " Not giving up." " Everybody else is just beat down, negativity, total meltdown." " I'd love to disagree with Oliver." "I'd love to be like, "No, man."" "But my team let me down, so today I got to be the first guy to get past it, and to try to rally them, and get them back on pace." "If not, we're in for a total [bleep] show here." " Should we let 'em know?" " Yeah." " All right." "Let's do it." "♪" "All right, guys." "Today you were judged on legibility." " This challenge was a beat down, but I think the biggest thing that hurt everybody was the negativity." "The few people that stayed calm and seemed to have the most positive attitudes had the strongest pieces." " Judges have decided the winner of today's flash challenge... is Kevin." "Congratulations, man." "You're going to have the power to assign all the human canvases for the elimination tattoo." " I'm super excited I won this flash challenge, but skull picks are tricky." "On one side, you want to [bleep] over your opponents, but at the same time you want to give your teammates something good they can work with." "I have to do it strategically." "♪" " Well, today didn't work out so good." "Get past it." "It's one day." "This is not what defines you guys as people in the competition." "What defines you is how fast you get back up." "You come back out." "Go fierce again." " You all can head back to the loft." "♪" " If there's a [bleep] canvas, I'll probably give it to you." " I'm in a bad mood." "Nothing good is going to come out of it." "I'll [bleep] lose it." " This is going to be hella, hella risky." " I want flowers with a negative-space triangle on my sternum." " What the [bleep], bro?" "[dramatic music]" "♪" " Please don't [bleep] me too bad today." "I'm not capable of handling pieces of [bleep] canvases." " If there's a [bleep] canvas, honestly, I will probably give it to you." " Son of a bitch." " Based off of your skill set," "I feel like you would fully be capable of handling the work." " I'm a [bleep] lit fuse, man, and I have a problem with that." " You feel like it's unjust?" " I'm in a bad mood." "Nothing good is going to come out of me." "I have no [bleep] patience." "If I get a piece of [bleep] canvas," "I'll [bleep] lose it." "♪ [rock music]" "♪ [dramatic music]" "♪" " Team Peck, this week you're safe from elimination, and you will serve as the jury of peers." " Sweet." " Team Nuñez, welcome to your next elimination tattoo." "This is Chris' chance to see how you stack up against each other." "♪" "Today you must prove that you understand legibility by tattooing... watercolor tattoos." "♪" " Awesome." "Watercolor tattoos are by far the least legible tattoo style" "I can think of." "It can't work together." " These tattoos mimic watercolor brush strokes to create vibrant images, and although these tattoos play fast and loose with both color and shade, it's still crucial that you make sure your tattoo is legible." " Watercolor tattoos can be a muddy mess." "Colors could run into each other, and it's going to be hard to tell what it is." " I want you guys to realize that two more of you are going to get eliminated before this thing even gets going." "Once we get to the top five on each team, it's really going to turn up." "To stay in the competition, make it the best tattoo you can make today." "♪" " Let's meet the canvases." "♪" "Kevin, you won the flash challenge." "That means that you have the power to assign the canvases." "This moment can make or break you, so choose carefully." " That flash challenge knocked me off of my pedestal, and I did not like that." "Kevin better give me an easy canvas because he does not want to get on my bad side." " What are you trying to get done?" " A watercolor wolf portrait on my right arm." " Watercolor anatomical heart on my thigh." " I want to get sunflowers across my arm from my shoulder down." "Watercolor." " A half sleeve of sunflowers?" "That just don't happen in six hours." "What the [bleep], bro?" " I want watercolor wildflowers with a negative-space triangle on my sternum." "♪" " I do not want the tattoo on the sternum, because that area hurts." "I don't need somebody that's going to walk out on me." "I don't want to be set up for failure." " What are you trying to get done?" " A tree of life with watercolor sunset behind." "Mid-back up with some branches on my shoulder." " [bleep]." " That tree of life tattoo is a massive undertaking." "Whoever gets that one can be pretty sure that Kevin is coming for them." "♪" " I'm not afraid of the girls' alliance, but anybody who's not part of it is susceptible to getting [bleep]." "I'm just trying to protect my own ass." "♪" " Okay, canvases." "One by one, please read the name of the artist on the bottom of your skull." " Nikki." " Anatomical heart." " Thank you, Kevin." "♪" " Kelly." "♪" " This is bull[bleep]." "Kevin is definitely scared to step up to these chicks." "There isn't a pair of balls in this [bleep] house." " SketchyLawyer." " Eric." " The tree of life." "♪" " Tuff Tito." "♪" " Tree of life?" "Kevin screwed me on that." "♪" " Sirvone." "♪" " [inhales sharply] [speaks indistinctly]" " Kevin." " Kevin's going for the sternum piece." "I'm not necessarily sure where he's going with this strategy now, but he's got two guns locked and loaded pointing at me and Tito." " Team Nuñez, you have six hours to create a watercolor tattoo." "Based on your work, one of you will close shop." "♪" "Good luck to you." " How are you?" " Hi." " The side of your thigh?" " Yes, my left thigh." " Watercolor tattoos are very abstract, and it's tough to create something legible." " And what kind of flowers did you say again?" " Wildflowers." " Okay, cool." " My team in the flash challenge, took it right in the teeth, so I'm hoping that they can bounce back and redeem themselves." " Tree of life, yes." " Okay." "Where are you going to put it?" " On my back." " It's crazy." "She want big tattoo on her back." " I want a swing." "I want two fairies." "One on the swing and one either, like, sitting or hanging on the tree." " It's not just a tree of life." "Now she want fairy and people hanging from that." " And then the watercolor behind." " Time is going to be against me." "How do you want to do this?" "I don't have too much time, but let me see." "Stand up." "I don't know how I'm going to pull this off." " From the top of there." " So here and maybe, like, here?" " Mm-hmm." "♪" " All right, so look." "Tell me what you're thinking with this." " The shoulder down, you know." "Just some sunflowers." "I was also thinking about getting maybe a skull candy, you know." " Like a sugar skull?" " Sugar skull, yeah." "Just made out of flowers, wildflowers." " The more stuff I add, the less you will be able to get done." "You will have an unfinished tattoo." " Yeah, well, I need my tattoo finished though." " But you can't get a finished tattoo if we add too much." " All right." "I'm just saying." "All right." "Forget about the skull candy." "Just some sunflowers, so I want the sunflowers to be, like, different colors." "One yellow." "One purple." "One, you know, mixing it up." " With the time we got..." " How many sunflowers you think we can get on there?" " Right now I'm thinking two." " No, no." "Definitely no." " My canvas is stepping up to be unrealistic." " We could fit another sunflower on there, man." " I'm not going to sit here and tell you" "I can do three, four flowers in six hours without leaving one of these undone." "♪ [rock music]" "♪ [dramatic music]" " That's a big tattoo, man." " Got to be that big." " Dude, that's going to take forever." "Less is more 'cause that's a lot of [bleep] work, Tito." " Dude, I feel like Sketchy might be stressing right now." " Think so?" " Look at him." " Man, I think Tito was given a tough one." "It's going to be hard for him to come out of that." "Eric got hit really hard too." "And those sunflowers that Sirvone got... crazy, man." "I think Kevin was helping the girls out." " No [bleep] doubt." " A wolf is the best thing Kelly could have ever got." "That's, like, her thing." " He thinks that the girls are not going to take him out after there's not too many people left." "He's crazy." "I'm just hoping Kevin knocks himself out with the one he chose." "♪" " All right, Team Nuñez, you have six hours to create a legible watercolor tattoo." "And your time begins now." " Whoo." " Let's do this." " So I'm going to have you stand right here." " Team Nuñez is coming off a pretty bad flash challenge, and they come right into watercolor tattoos." " It's going to be dope." "I like that a lot." " The thing about watercolor tattoos, a lot of them are just abstract, so having to create something that shows legibility is a tough challenge." "♪ [dramatic music]" " Ooh-ho-ho." " Bleeding." "Can't look." "This is the first time in the competition that I'm finally allowed to do color, so my strategy is to do an absolute color bomb with this tattoo." " I like the design." " It's going to have, like, a frosted kind of look to it." "It's a good day for Kelly." "♪" " Oh." "That one spot killed." "[bleep] load of adrenaline running through me right now." " Good." "Get that adrenaline buzz." "Kevin gave me the tattoo that I wanted, and I'm so stoked." "Coming off of that flash challenge," "I need to kill it in this tattoo." "I'm going to get whatever strength I have left and just pull it all out and do a killer job." " I felt like you had the funnest one." " The funnest?" " Yeah." " I was like, "Kevin, you don't want hers?"" " I'm just surprised he didn't take her." " Yeah, I mean, I would have." " Yeah." "♪" "What up, cuz?" " How you [bleep] doing?" " Good." " He made it clear that I'm not riding with y'all." " He blessed a couple people." " Yeah." "People you didn't even think he would though." "And, you know, it was intentional too." " Was it?" " Yeah." "Blessed 'em on purpose." " Three hours to go, Team Nuñez." "♪" " My first watercolor tattoo." " Yeah, so at least they can say your first watercolor tattoo was for $100,000." " I think Kevin's crazy for taking the hardest tattoo of the day." "The thing that is going to win this competition is getting people out of your [bleep] way." "Man, I keep telling these cats, like, it ain't close enough to taste it or smell it yet, you know what I mean?" "The girls understand what's going on, and if these peckers are smart, they would definitely go after the girls." "But these guys are just sitting back thinking that the tattoos are going to carry them all the way through, and it's not going to happen." "♪" " Relax." " It's hard to relax when you're stabbing me with a needle." " This butthead finally takes some of my advice." "Now we got a design that both of us can agree on, but now my canvas is jumping." "He's pulling away." "I don't know whether to call this guy a pain in the ass or a dick, so I think I'ma call him both." "It'll get easier as we go along." " What?" "My arm's going to get numb?" "Is that why?" "♪" " What's going on, man?" " How are you?" " Oh, we're adding on to what she already had." "I see." " Yeah, he's working it out." " Yeah, I'm going to go on from there." "Add, like, a swing." "It's like two fairy going to swing." "Another fairy over here." "This girl want Celtic, fairies, moon, tree of life, background." " Is the rest of that tree going to be something..." " No." "It's going to be black." "♪" "Whatever you tell me to do, I'm going to make it happen." "♪" " Final hour." "Team Nuñez, final hour." "♪" " This canvas asked for a watercolor wild orchid on her sternum." "Easy peasy, lemon squeezy." "♪" " Mm-hmm." " I was thinking that the insides... this flower should be, like, minimal outline." " Of all the canvases, even though this is the one that I feel the most comfortable with tattooing because I feel like it complements my style the most, it's the least legible subject matter." "Let's do this." "Outline on the outside..." " Mm-hmm." " On the inside, no outline." " Mm-hmm." " This is going to be hella, hella risky." "I kind of feel like I shot myself in the foot." "♪" " What do you think?" " I think your boy Tito's in big trouble." "Doing all that Celtic, he's gonna get killed on technical." " Sirvone... that's my concern, because he's doing a little bit of fine line black, and then he's going to pound that thing full." "And then Kevin..." "I have the feeling he's not going to outline the inside of the diamond, and that's going to be a killer for him." "♪" " Five, four, three, two, one." "That's it." "Machines down." "Time is up." "No more ink." "♪" " Take a look." " Oh, my God." "It looks amazing." " Check it out in the mirror." " Oh, nice." "I like what I see." " Sirvone had a hard time." "I don't think he understands what a watercolor tattoo is." "It's kind of a mess." "♪" " I'm taking you down." " Then come at me, Sirvone." " I'ma come at you guns blazing." " At what point are you going to hit the gas and take off?" " There's no fixing this thing." " You don't have to like every tattoo I do." " You got to do better than this to win." "♪ [intense music]" "♪" " All y'all girls, you got it easy." "If you had my canvas you wouldn't have been able to do it." " I don't know what the [bleep] you're talking about." " Wait 'til somebody pass you some tough [bleep]." "Then you will probably [bleep] crack." " You're so jealous." " Jealous of what?" " Listen to you." "You're just upset because you have nothing like an alliance that we have, and..." " Allian... that's what I'm telling you." "You got it easy because of that." " Exactly." " When the [bleep] has Kevin been a part of my alliance?" " Kevin is calling you mama." "He is trying to keep his self safe." "Ain't nobody stupid." " I don't give a [bleep] what happens to all three of you." "The girls have each other's backs." " Man, y'all can suck each other's [bleep]." " Oh, [bleep] you, you little baby boy." " Baby boy?" "I see your ass walk past me I'm taking you down." " Then come at me, Sirvone." " I'ma come at you guns blazing." " Go for it, bro." "Do you think that's really [bleep] put me in a level as low as yours?" " Oh, man." "You ain't even seen my level." " No, I haven't." "♪" " Team Nuñez, today you had to show legibility by creating a watercolor tattoo that's readable from across the room." "Team Peck, you will serve as the jury of peers." "♪" "Kevin, let's start with you." "♪" " Kevin, my big problem with this tattoo is legibility." "What kind of flower is it supposed to be?" " It's a wild orchid which in real life," "I feel like most people wouldn't know what kind of flower it is." " This one area where you have that nice dark purple, and it pushes that petal forward, if you would have at least had more of that, it would have played a lot stronger." " I was going to do the lines on the inside, but she told me she didn't want the lines on the inside of it." " You still want your image to be crystal clear." " It's a flower." "You may not know what kind of flower, but..." " Yeah, but regardless of what flower it is," "I can still be able to see a petal, and see where it goes, and where it's folding." "Without that strong outline or without a definitive shape, the middle does look like a mess." "♪" " Eric." "♪" " Well, Eric, I like your graphic image of the eye." "I love the center of the pupil." "I love the iris." "The biggest problem with this is this blue and these negative-space white circles in there." "They don't look that crisp." "As far as capturing the watercolor look, you didn't really pull it off." " I don't agree." "I like it." "I think you did a great job." "The color that you did where the magenta color and the blue mix, it looks like it got diluted on the skin." "That hits watercolor." "I think you nailed this tattoo, man." " Thank you." "♪" " Tito." "♪" " One of the issues here is the actual shape." "That big tombstone shape with this big, hard perimeter." "If you put some motion in it and break it up, it gives you ability to play with the color and play with the design." " Definitely legible as a tree, but, man, come on." "You're here to compete." "You can't just throw at me this janky, little, wannabe, half-Celtic..." " Yeah..." " I would love to hear something, but there's nothing you got that's going to come back on this [bleep]." " Yeah, I wasn't going for, like, exactly symmetrical Celtic." "I was going for roots." " Yeah, but I'm talking about this Celtic." "That [bleep] is weak." "Where those things go over and under each other don't even make sense." "This is bad tattooing." "♪" " Sketchy." "♪" " Sketchy, there's no questioning your technical abilities." "The outline's crisp." "The color is saturated." "The blends are very smooth, but overall it's a weak tattoo." "You spilled a bunch of color on it, and you called it done." "It's boring, man." " I'm not very familiar with this style of tattooing, so maybe I played it safe." " Part of this challenge was using watercolor to create a legible image whereas this is legible if you didn't put any color in this." " You guys are [bleep] on my team a lot today." "As long as you hit the look and legibly see what it is, then it works." " I mean, what's the point of having it be a watercolor challenge?" " No definition on what that watercolor painting had to be." " Here you take away this black outline... all you have is three colors, random." " That is exactly my point." " But what's the rule?" " There is no rules." " Right." " I just don't like this one." " I hit the challenge." "I mean, you don't have to like every tattoo I do." " You got to do better than this to win." "♪" " Nikki." "♪" " This is kind of what I expected to see today, instead of like what we saw with Sketchy." "Your color splats go with each shape of the heart, and you actually create a lot of cool textures and depths with your color tones, using super smooth technique." " Your use of the black and the way that you gave it that brush-stroke feel..." "it has a really strong look, and it will hold up as to what it is over time." "I think you did a great job here." " Thank you." "♪" " Kelly." "♪" " Kelly, I love this tattoo." "It looks like light colors of watercolor have been blended." "Every color you have blends very smoothly to very dark tones and even black." "I think this tattoo is great." " The ink really flows, bleeding the colors, and really seeing the ink move in the lower portion of the neck and within your little highlights." "That really shows nicely the color play and the looseness." "You really do a standup job here." "♪" " Sirvone." "♪" " Obviously very legible." "Two sunflowers, but it looks like a new-school tattoo with some melt-y edges than pulling off any watercolor effect." " You stayed really rigid within your color palette, so you don't have any intermingling of color." "Had you softened up those edges and not been so rigid, that would really put you back into the watercolor category that'll be undeniable." "And this is a day where the one thing that you want to hit out of the park is that watercolor feel." " Um, I have lots of problems with this tattoo." "Some of the petals are weirdly shaped." "I think technically it's poor." "I think the artwork is poor, and I just think that it's a very inexperienced-looking tattoo." "♪" " Sirvone, thank you, buddy." "♪" " All right, guys, time to determine who had the best tattoo of the day." "Chris, this is your team." " I like Nikki and Kelly." " Nikki and Kelly crushed this challenge." "Do you have a final decision here?" " It's actually tough." " I tried making it look as true to the actual paint and moving of watercolors." " Kelly's looks like a really smooth tattoo, and Nikki's really looks like a painting." " And Nikki's looks like only watercolors were used." " Based on the technique and the effort of moving the color around the skin, I'm with Nikki." " Oliver?" " I would go with Kelly, but being what the challenge is today, Nikki, you killed it." "I go with Nikki." " I agree." "I'm going with Nikki as well." "The judges have decided the best tattoo of the day goes to Nikki." "Well done." " That's awesome." "Didn't expect that. [laughs]" "♪" " Okay, Team Peck." "As the jury of peers, you must deliberate and put one artist up for elimination." "All right, Team Nuñez." "One of you is about to pack your machines." "All of you, head back to the loft." "♪" " It's obvious the girls got favor on this one, and it's such bull[bleep]." " Kevin can play however he wants." "He won the flash challenge." " He wants to be tight with the two top players so he can last a little bit longer." " Wouldn't you do the same thing?" " No." " No." " You don't give the best person in the room the easiest canvas." " He's playing it smart." " Nikki and Kelly are not on your team." " But..." " But you treat them as if they are." " This "alliance" we have or whatever is not like," ""Hey, let's purposely [bleep] somebody over."" " You roasting Sirvone..." "that was pretty brutal." " I roasted Sirvone because he's putting out poor work." " He's had a rough ride." " Oh, Sirvone is emotional, and he's not as good as us, so we have to be nice to him." " But it was a tough-ass tattoo." " Do you think he should have been babied and spoon-fed because he's not as good?" "He always has an excuse as to why he can't perform as good as everyone else, and I'm sick of it." "♪ [dramatic music]" "♪" " We're here as the jury of peers to determine who we want to put up for elimination." " Kevin's tattoo..." "the triangle isn't a triangle." " If you take those leaves away, it doesn't even look like a flower." "It's weird." " The line width is not the same." " It's still pretty to look at, no matter what it is." "And it's significantly better than what Sirvone put out today." " Absolutely." " I mean, I agree with that." " This is a nightmare." " It looks like Sirvone did this crayon drawing, and left it in the backseat of the car, and it melted all over itself." " The centers of the sunflowers look like..." " Donut holes." " Donuts." "Is it legible as a watercolor tattoo?" "No." " No." " It's arguably worse than Tito's." "No." " The tree veers off to the left, and look at the bottom, the Celtic." "The way that he connects and disconnects..." " Tito's on thin ice." "He's teetering above the lowest." " Clearly." " You know, every time." " I've said it from the beginning." "I said we're giving him way too much credit." "He is not as good as you think he is." " He's not." "♪" " All right, today we're testing legibility with watercolor tattoos." "Team Nuñez up there." "Who are your bottoms today?" " Kevin turned in this flower, and he really did not want to put outlines in any of this thing." " It does not look like an orchid." " No." " Then you have Sirvone." "Yes, it's sunflowers, but they're terribly done sunflowers." " It doesn't play to the watercolor aesthetic at all." " Are these worse sunflowers than Tito's tree of life?" " Just what he did at the bottom, he's in the bottom for me." " I'm torn in my own team, because I have Sirvone that is challenged on paper." "Challenged technically." "And then I have Tito that just does whatever they ask and doesn't do anything for himself to hang in, and this is my battle in my head." " Well, it's going to be a tough call, and Team Peck is making up the jury of peers." "They are going to select someone from the bottom two." "Want to bring 'em in?" "♪" " Oh, man." "♪" " All right, jury of peers, who are y'all sending to the bottom?" "♪" " The jury of peers has decided to put up Sirvone for elimination." "♪" " All right, so we'll see Sirvone, Tito, and Kevin." "We'll see you all downstairs." "♪" " Today you had to create a watercolor tattoo, and based on your work, one of you will close shop." "But first, let's hear from the jury of peers." "Guys, why did you vote Sirvone to the bottom?" " The design was lacking the most." "The overall look of it to us looked the worst." " Half of it's lined." "Half of it's not." "The lines that are there are awful." "The color saturation is ridiculous." "It looks like a child did this with a crayon and it melted." " Sirvone, do you agree with that decision, or do you feel that you're unjustly here?" " I think it was legible." "You can see what it is." " It's definitely legible, but legibility aside," "I still think you've got outline problems." "You've got a lot of areas where this color is just not really that solid and not really that smooth." " At what point are you going to hit the gas and take off?" "You did that rhino." "Cool, so if I can give you a rhino, and you can do a perfect portrait of it, but then I give you flowers, and then those freak you out..." "I mean there's just not a lot of time left for those kind of issues now..." " Just doing a realistic flower, a traditional flower." "It's just the concept of watercolor really bothers me..." " But this is "Ink Master."" "That means a person who can embrace all styles." " Kevin, if you had this same outline on this whole tattoo... had this thing looking like a flower that was really opening up... then you'd be sitting up there, and somebody else'd be down here." " Do I think it's a bad tattoo?" "No." "Do I think it's the worst tattoo on the bottom?" "Absolutely not." " Technically you might have the most solid tattoo down here, but it is by far the most illegible on a day where we're testing legibility." "Tito." " I tried to hit the mark of what the challenge asked for." "I mean, nobody can tell that's not watercolor, and nobody can tell me you cannot read what you see in the picture." " I would have never expected you to do this shape around the whole thing." "This solid plaque in a tombstone shape." "Like, if this happened at home in my shop," "I would [bleep] my pants." " It's going to fade out." "It's easy to cover." "Easy to change, and with that being said..." " Easy to cover?" "There's no fixing this thing." "♪" " Time to debate who is going home." "This is a tough one." " Kevin, out of these three tattoos, you're not going to go home today." "Sirvone, regardless of what the challenge was, you still had technical problems in a tattoo which I think that Tito had technical problems also." " With Sirvone, he turned in that rhino." "I have not seen anything of that caliber from Tito." "I mean, that's what I'm thinking." "If you guys are talking report cards, and you guys are talking about..." " Well, traditional tattoos, Tito got him." "Geisha day too." "Tito got him." " I obviously have major issues with Tito's tattoo." "I would love to see more tattoos from Sirvone in a different challenge, but this tattoo killed you." "Voting for Sirvone." " My vote is for Tito to go home." " As the team captain, who on my team is going to be able to make it to the end?" "♪" " Final decision?" " For me it's Sirvone." " The judges have decided," "Sirvone, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." " Been a lot of ups and downs, man, a lot of inconsistencies, and just a lack of being solid." "Great person, just rough outing." " Sirvone, please pack your machines and close shop." "♪" " Not really expecting that I was going to leave today." "Mine was a lot more legible than Kevin's, and if it came down to watercolor," "Tito should be going home instead of me." "It feels kind of [bleep] because I deserve to still be here more than a lot of people here." "♪ announcer:" "On the next episode of "Ink Master"..." " I'm going to stir this pot is what I'm going to do." " Gian just outsmarted us all." " [groaning]" " You girls are being gunned for." " A [bleep] chest piece in six hours is impossible." " He's [bleep] people over." "I wanted to keep the strong people here." " For what?" " I just think it's bull[bleep]." " It was a piece of [bleep] tattoo." " You're going home today, and I'll still be here." " What I don't like is the way you tattooed." " If you can't do a clean tattoo every time, it's going to hurt you." " I don't like this thing at all." " I'ma lash back." " My vote's for you." "♪ [rock music]" "♪"