Watch as Bill demonstrates how to create beautiful tree trunks, quickly and easily with just the palette knife. This is a simple technique that can make your paintings look more realistic without going to all the trouble that traditional oil painters have to go through to accomplish the same thing. Bill's palette knife was truly a revolution in painting. Bill designed it … [Read more...]
“…the real joy…”
Traveling across the country is a joy on any scale, and the real joy is the people. -- Bill Alexander Bill travelled extensively during his long career. He loved people. He believed in the basic goodness of his fellow human beings. He got into trouble or was taken advantage of more than once by opening his heart to others. But he also forged wonderful, lasting relationships … [Read more...]
Ready in your mind!
Bill explains his design process. This is how the Old Masters worked. They designed their paintings in exquisite detail before they ever laid brush to canvas. Bill grew up in that tradition and it was second nature for him. That's how he could walk into the studio before the taping session with no reference painting, no photo. That's how a master works. If you want to master … [Read more...]
Garnet
My wife bought me tickets to a Garnet Rogers show at the local bistro last night. It was an intimate gathering of some fifty or sixty fans, and I sat within reaching distance of the stage. Garnet is the brother of folk singer, poet Stan Rogers who died tragically in an aircraft fire in 1983 in Canada. I remember to this day exactly what I was doing when I heard about Stan’s … [Read more...]
Cleaning that brush better!
Bill recognized there was a problem cleaning his brushes, but he had a bigger problem -- twenty-eight minutes! That's all the time he had to finish his painting! So he was pretty much stuck with paint thinner. The one advantage of thinner is it does work fast! But -- hey -- we don't have to get our paintings done in twenty-eight minutes! In fact, we can take as long as we want! … [Read more...]
A lesson on perspective
More "big brush magic!" Bill uses his big brush to create a distant hill with trees. Notice the brush stroke he uses to create the illusion of trees. More important, watch how he uses the same color but darkens it in order to show a closer line of trees and hills. One of the elements of perspective is -- class? -- that's right -- color! The closer an object, the darker the … [Read more...]
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