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...]

Bill shares an important concept in painting...destroying your edges. Notice the bottom edge of the snowdrift that Bill is painting. That doesn't look very natural does it? That's not how it appears in "Mother Nature". Bill shows you how to fix that to make your paintings more realistic. … [Read more...]