Josh Payne
Josh is the Ink Master winner from Season 10, beginning tattoos at age 16, with equipment he bought online, to make money for college. He originally had the plan to be a special effects artist for movies. Only after a few years of tattooing his brothers and friends, Payne abandoned his movie-making ambitions after realizing he could “create monsters and aliens and creatures on skin.”
He tattoos out of Long Live Tattoo Collective in Denver, CO. His work is vibrant and kills it at Illustrative, New School, and Color Realism.