We've all been there! You stare at that blank canvas and your hand starts to tremble. Maybe a bead of sweat breaks out on your forehead. OK...Bill's speaking from over forty years of painting experience...and...he has that pragmatic, no nonsense state of mind! But every once in a while you need a bit of "tough love". And no one loved his students more than Bill! (Those of … [Read more...]
Common Sense
We were editing this video for our Silver members and I came across this cute clip of Bill talking about common sense. (Bill mentions the concept of using common sense in your paintings in a number of videos.) He is painting Yankee Doodle's farm house and he talks about using common sense in terms of what goes on the canvas. In this case, he was talking about how clouds would … [Read more...]
Bill wore his environmentalism on his sleeve!
Never knew this about Bill although we should have guessed, right? Bill's love of nature was not just "for the camera". He wore his environmentalism on his sleeve. Bill planted trees and built his famous fish hatchery from which tens of thousands of salmon hatched each year. Bill was an avid fisherman and wanted to put back more than he took. Even when Bill worked around his … [Read more...]
“Can you really do paintings like this in a half hour?”
Finally, he asked “Can you really do paintings like this in a half hour?” KOCE was a new public television station just starting up in Huntington Beach, CA in 1979. They wanted to do a new type of educational programming. Bill's agent called and told Bill he had set up an audition for him at the studio. At first the producer was skeptical that Bill could create a complete … [Read more...]
My technique
We stumbled across this clip at the beginning of a video we're editing for our members. To understand what was going on about the time this video was filmed, one artist, in particular, was claiming Bill's technique as his own. In fact, he, pretty much, claimed everything of Bill's as his own...from everything that Bill said...even to how Bill penned his signature. Bill gave … [Read more...]
How to watch Bill’s videos
Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment. -- Zig Ziglar Researcher discovers Rembrandt videos! Imagine the excitement this heading would create as a newspaper headline. Okay...it would take a miracle for that to happen. Can you imagine watching Rembrandt paint "The Night Watch" with its exquisite lighting? … [Read more...]
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