Here it is! The video clip you've been waiting for! Bill shows you exactly what happens when you put too much Magic White™ on the canvas. OK...OK...we should have showed you this earlier, but we only discovered it recently while editing the over 200 videos of Bill we've uploaded to the site for our Silver members. What? You're not a Silver member yet? Wow! You're missing out … [Read more...]

Bill has completed this painting and reviews the elements and layers he created. Count how many individual elements he has in this painting and how each is painted with its own unique property that helps with perspective. From the dark detailed foreground stones to the distant "fuzzy" mountains...this is a great mini-lesson in creating perspective in your paintings. … [Read more...]

It never ceases to amaze us how fluent Bill is with the fan brush. Watch closely in this video how Bill uses every part of the brush. Don't know if you can see it, but when he pulls the paint across the tree trunk, he starts his stroke by pressing a bit to the right, bending the bristles of the brush and then pulling them across the tree trunk. This is a very delicate move … [Read more...]

Bill explains how to hold the palette knife for maximum efficiency. … [Read more...]

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...]