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...]
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...]
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...]
“This is what makes an artist…”
Bill what makes artists special. As you paint you think a lot about the image on the canvas. You become one with the painting. The objects appear real almost as if you could talk to them. Your mind runs wild with ideas. If this happens to you as the artist, imagine what happens in the mind of your viewer! Artists have that kind of power to make the viewer think - about their … [Read more...]
The philosophy of Magic White™
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...]
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