In this live‑recorded art stream, Jason (the host) creates an abstract drip painting using watered‑down acrylic ink on watercolor paper. He explains his materials (cerulean blue, a secret color mix, Sharpie for sketching), demonstrates his layered drip technique, turns and flips the paper to let ink flow in different directions, and sketches over the wet background. Throughout the session he chats casually with viewers (Tamberly, Tim, Donna, etc.), shares anecdotes about his creative process, shows past drip‑to‑cityscape examples, and announces his next streaming slot (Saturday night at 7:45 pm). He plans to let the piece dry overnight and add a pop of color later. The tone is informal, instructional, and enthusiastic, emphasizing the therapeutic, spontaneous nature of drip painting and the freedom to orient the finished work any way.
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Hey there, Tamberly, how are you? Good to see you. Hope you're having a great afternoon. Hey Tim, how you doing? Hope you're doing awesome today. Cup of coffee and wine, the perfect way to watching some art. That's great, Tim. Really? Yeah, so I'm just painting on the easel, doing a— working on an abstract piece. I love to do these kinds of pieces once in a while. I haven't done one in a long time, so I started yesterday. I figured, come on, you do a little bit more today. This— these kinds of paintings take a while to take layers and layers and layers. So just adding another layer right now. Tim, hope everything's well with you. Good to see you as always. Very cool. So typically after I do the backgrounds on these abstract pieces, I'll come back with, um, with a Sharpie or typically Sharpie and do some kind of sketch on top of the background. It's always fun to see how these things just kind of play out. They definitely take a life on of their own, for sure. So I've been doing these drip paintings for at least 3 years or so, and I just, I kind of like the randomness about them. There's also something therapeutic just about watching the, the ink kind of drip down. This is acrylic ink I'm using that's watered down. This paper does get pretty wet. It's watercolor paper, but it gets saturated and starts to buckle, and that's why I can only do a few, uh, wash layers at a time. That's— this looks okay for now. Sometimes after this dries, I'll turn the page around. I might let the paint drip in other directions as well. Sometimes while it's wet, I'll even turn it sideways and let it go the other direction. I kind of like the way this is looking right now, so I'm going to leave it, let it dry this way. I'm going to add some more blue. So I have my cup of coffee here too, Tamburly. I really wanted to take a nap, but I said, "No, I'm not gonna nap. No naps." So I made some coffee and decided I wanted to work on this a little bit. Yeah, nap, right? Naps are always a good thing, for sure, for sure. Usually I give in to them. Today I'm being spiteful. Giving my brain a different kind of nap. A nap from schoolwork. But I'll have to pay the price later because I'll have to do it later. That's okay. So I think this one might need to dry a little bit. I don't want it to get too muddy. If I keep adding stuff to it, it'll get mucky. Not that it's pristine at all, not by any means, but I'm trying to keep the colors kind of simple on it for now, so I'm just using cerulean blue and my secret mix, the secret mix here. Secret mixture I can't remember the recipe for. I still love the color. Just looking for a scrap piece of paper. I have one down here I could use. I just keep a scrap piece of paper here to wipe my brush off on. Cool, it's looking cool to me. All right. Flip around, see what it looks like from a different viewpoint. Oh yeah, I like it this way. Cool thing about these paintings is there's no top or bottom as you're working on them. When you finish, sometimes you can orient it however you want. I'm— for some reason I'm liking this orientation of it. Yeah, my brain's starting to picture something kind of happening in the scene. I don't want to give it away yet. I can almost imagine something, some shapes kind of emerging down here, turning this into some kind of a scene with some things in it. Some things, leaving it a mystery. Because I don't know if it's going to go that direction or not. We'll see. Yes, I like the way that looks. But I do want it to dry this way. Flip it over. Pretty cool. You like it that way too, Tamburlie? Yeah, thanks. That's, um, something about it. There's something about the other way. Don't know what. That's cool. So as you guys watch me sketching, you know, it's— that's usually very fast-paced, whip out a bunch of sketches. But this is something that takes a little more time to do, at least to get the backgrounds on. If actually you can see some examples, I'll show you. So Just if I can move this over a little bit. So this is an example back here that started out to be a drip painting, and as always, I like to turn things into cityscapes. So that turned out to be a cityscape. If you look up top— let's see if I can move the camera up— there's a flower I posted the other day. I think some of you guys may have seen that. Pan it this way. So this actually started out to be a drip painting here. The flower piece, I put the drips on first and then somehow I sort of saw a flower, I wanted to add a flower on there. The upper right, this had some drip painting on it as well. So those are a couple, a few examples. I have a lot more, more dramatic ones. That's kind of an idea of some of the drip painting things that could happen. This down here is just an abstract floral kind of piece. I didn't do the Batman. I wish I did. You can see this piece down here. It's pretty, it's a nice floral abstract kind of piece. There you go. It's just a little shot of what's happening. I'm going to add a little bit more, I think, of the rusty brown color and then I'm going to wrap up. About a couple minutes. Change this. I have my music on, but I gotta change that tune. All right, let's just put something else on. There we go. All right, cool. All right, I'm gonna put some more brown on and wrap up, and I won't be back today painting anymore. I'm scheduled to be back, uh, definitely on Saturday. Well, I shouldn't say definitely, but I am scheduled to be here Saturday night at 7:45, I think I put. Okay, I think that's a wrap on this one for today, guys. Thank you for tuning in and watching. Hope you have an awesome, awesome rest of your Wednesday, right? It's Wednesday. I almost forgot what day it was. Enjoy the rest of your Wednesday. Thank you for watching and commenting. Hey, Donna, how are you? Good to see See you. Awesome. So I'm going to let the next step, just so you know, is I'm going to let this dry overnight and then sometime in the next few days I'll come back to it and I'll add another layer on it. I don't see too many different colors happening on this piece, but I am thinking of adding right now some kind of vibrance pop maybe some kind of a yellow or something. So that might be the next color I add on this piece. And again, let's take a look at the other direction just because it's fun to do. And we'll see— it's cool, the paint's running back down. That's cool. But my gut's telling me I think the final piece is going to be oriented in this direction. Cool. Oh, I like how this is dripping down. That's awesome. Actually, we'll let it dry this way. Let some of the color run back down the page. Cool. Hey, you guys are awesome. Have a great, great night. Have a great Thursday. See you guys soon. Peace and live creatively. Sorry I wasn't on camera. I just realized I didn't turn the camera on me. That's okay. It's not about me. It's about— it's about this right here. We'll see you guys. Take care. Have an awesome day.
