In this solo live‑style session titled “Uncapping Ink,” artist Jason Nicholas opens a new ink bottle (highlighting the shade “Rusted Rivet”), demonstrates how he prepares the ink with a bamboo brush and a splash of water, and sketches at a tilted angle to let the ink and water flow down the paper. He explains his plan to spend roughly seven minutes creating a spontaneous, unstructured piece, then reviews live‑chat comments after the timer (ending at 9:20 PM). Throughout, he emphasizes a playful, experimental mindset, mentions a wish for a hair dryer to speed drying, and invites viewers to ask questions.
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And thank you guys for joining me. Let's, um, I'm calling this instead of an unboxing, we're going to call it an uncapping. So welcome to this, tonight's uncapping edition of the Inkspired Life. All right, cool. I also love the color of the cap. So we'll just open it before we even sketch anything. Let's just put some of this on paper. Um, I'm gonna prop this up. I like to sketch at an angle just to let the ink and water kind of run down. We think we can zoom out a little bit. Yeah, let's just throw, you know, let's do something a little different. I'm going to throw down color first and then we'll throw some lines on top of it. And even if I don't create something that's recognizable, we're just going to have fun and play for about— I'm going to wrap up at like 9:20, so I have 7 minutes. My comments are off. I got to turn them on to see who's out there in chat land. So if you're watching, I appreciate you guys. I'll check the comments when I wrap this up. So stay on, I'll look through the comments, ask any questions, and we'll spend a couple minutes going through all that. All right, so I'm literally just taking a paintbrush, a bamboo brush, dipping it into the ink. So let's just throw it down on the paper. So Rusted Rivet, right, has this really cool rusty color to it. And I'm going to break out another color. I'm adding a little water just to dilute it. And we're randomly just going to throw this down, and I wish I had a hair dryer so it could dry quick.
