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...]

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...]

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...]

Bill may not have been the first to put white on the canvas, but he certainly was the first to perfect the technique! (Alexander Master Artist Tom Anderson tells us that Monet was, perhaps, the first to put a white base coat on his canvas prior to painting.) Do you know WHY Bill created Magic White™ in the first place? Bill explains in this clip! … [Read more...]

Bill demonstrates how to add tree trunks in your painting. There is a lot going on with this step! Notice how Bill "plows" through the paint down to the bare canvas. This creates the effect of tree trunks but allows him to take them to the next step should he decide to add depth and volume to them by highlighting or just adding color. … [Read more...]

Ever notice how no other artists on YouTube or anywhere else for that matter, use the 2 1/2" brush? Bill tells you why they don't. Count how many brushes Bill uses in all his videos. He uses so few because he knows how to make a brush bend to his will. Our "Paint with Bill" art course will teach you how to set yourself apart from all the other artists. Learn to master your … [Read more...]