https://vimeo.com/150133417 https://vimeo.com/155485303 https://vimeo.com/391765003 Bill was always looking out for his students. As one who did not have a lot of money early in his career, Bill learned to make his paint last. The problem with painting wet-on-wet, of course, is your brush gets "dirty". It picks up the still wet paint from the layer on which you are … [Read more...]

For some reason a lot of folks fear oil paints. And yet, oils are the most forgiving medium, as Bill demonstrates in this video clip. Yes, oils take a long time to dry, but that's what allows you to change your mind even days after you finish a painting. Leonardo da Vinci loved the slow drying nature of oils and painted exclusively in oils. Yes, he painted on an egg tempera … [Read more...]

In an earlier video clip we showed you how easy Bill creates a raindrop. In this clip from the same video, Bill shows how to add a shadow to a raindrop to give it a bit more punch. This video is one of Bill's teaching videos...his goal in this video was to show how to create a painting with raindrops. … [Read more...]

Bill is explaining the principle of mixing on the canvas. If you notice how Bill works, he always starts at the top of his canvas with the darker color. As he comes down the canvas the white on the canvas mixes with the color in his brush and automatically creates a lighter color. This is how Bill creates depth in his sky. By reversing this process, at the bottom of the canvas, … [Read more...]

Why does the brush have to be dry? This is an important question with which many wet-on-wet painters struggle. Bill says, "It's (the brush) got to be dry otherwise we can not paint on that!" Paint on what? Bill is talking about that bottom layer of paint. Wet-on-wet is about painting in layers...paint on top of paint. As Alexander Master Artist Tom Anderson states in our … [Read more...]