situations in the world today, and what i -- what i can't say verbally, i can say in a picture, because they say a picture paints a thousand words. i can say a thousand words, and i guess this is my way of saying a thousand words. i use acrylics, water colors, soft pastels, chalk pastels, pen and ink. they give me a stick and mud, i would use it. anything i get my hands on i can use. >> and some prison artists, especially those confined to high security cells nearly have to go to such lengths to create art. >> i got different techniques but sometimes i use -- take the color of an m&m. i lick a piece of paper, fold it into a corner, touch it on the m&m. the color comes off. i use that as color, and i paint. that's what i do. >> because of his high security level as a confirmed gang member we could only shoot david hampton's art outside his cell at pelican bay. a correctional officer offered to hold it in place for our camera. but at another california