Bill used to take his students on trips into the mountains around Aldergrove. Sometimes he would allow them to take a sketchbook. Most times he wanted them to just observe nature. All the great masters did this. Leonardo’s notebooks are full of sketches he made while traveling around the countryside. The great English artist Turner did the same. When you have an intimate relationship with “Mother Nature”, as Bill did, you can bring that to the canvas. That is what Bill is doing in this clip.
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