How does stress affect your life and painting? OK, here’s the scary thing! Evidently, stress causes the body to create excess amounts of cortisol. Cortisol damages the brain and leads to premature brain aging. But I think there’s something even worse that happens. When you’re stressed, you don’t think clearly. Perhaps cortisol is affecting that area of your brain as … [Read more...]
What is the structure of art?
There is structure to art. In today’s video clip, Tom refers to that structure as "architectonics." While the definition of architectonics refers to “the scientific study of architecture.” It also applies to "artistic structure." Does not architecture have artistic elements? Is there not art in architecture? In fact, some of the most beautiful architectural structures in … [Read more...]
Don’t panic!
Today’s video clip comes from our upcoming Advanced Master Class. It seems, sometimes, when we are painting, that things can get out of hand pretty quickly. It usually starts innocently enough — an errant brush stroke. Oops! Got to fix that, you say. But the fix only makes it worse. Now you’ve got to wipe it off and try again. You can’t, though, wipe it all off. There … [Read more...]
“Not too much paint on!”
It’s so easy to make this mistake when painting wet-on-wet. I know I made it when I started painting. We see this problem, though, even with experienced painters. It doesn’t seem to make any sense to do it the way Bill shows you in today’s video clip. So we’ll try to explain why you need to understand this principle. If you want to be successful with Bill’s method of oil … [Read more...]
Treasures
Forget past sorrows, This world is yours so bright and gay, Sing and dream about tomorrow, Treasures are waiting with every new day. Bill starts off the week and “Motivation Monday” with this inspirational poem. His message is one that goes back to the Old Masters. Bill goes to the heart of everything that art is and what makes it great. It’s what makes artists great. … [Read more...]
“The sun is dancing in the water!”
Bill’s packed a lot of information into today's video clip. Most folks might miss most of what he is doing so we’ll try to unpack it a bit for you. What Bill is doing in the video is what he calls “conditioning.” "Conditioning" is laying in a background layer of color which will be the foundation of his painting. We’ll return to “conditioning” in a bit. Bill is … [Read more...]
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