When I began painting, I had no idea where to start. I looked around YouTube and found hundreds of thousands of painting videos. Most of those videos are by amateurs and are not real teaching videos. Rookies don’t know how to teach, let alone paint! Many YouTube videos are “Watch Me” videos. The artists seem more concerned with showing you how well they can paint. I even … [Read more...]
Cover up what you don’t like!
Well...Bill tells it like it is! We've heard him say this before, though! Isn't that the beauty of this style of painting? You don't have to stress out if you don't like an area of your painting. As you come forward you'll be covering up the background anyhow. So why not position your foreground objects to maximize the impact of your painting? Smart move, Bill! … [Read more...]
Slipping paint?
I know you've had this pesky problem happen before! I have and there's nothing more frustrating, especially when you're new to wet-on-wet painting. Bill demonstrates exactly what the problem is and how to solve it! … [Read more...]
Just walk away!
We get this question all the time. "What happens if I can't finish my painting in one sitting?" That, my friends, is the beauty of oils. Tom shares an important issue about oil painting that just might be the greatest advantage of oil paints over all the other mediums! … [Read more...]
The “rainbow palette!”
What do you do when your palette starts looking like a rainbow? Tom has the answer and the technique is so simply you'll wonder why no one ever told you about it before! … [Read more...]
“…you are being free!”
If you have enough creative power, you can make anything you want out of the land. You can put it in poems, you can put it in songs, you can put it in paintings. That way you are living as a free person and you are creating, you are being free. -- Bill Alexander … [Read more...]
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