Bill was an innovator. He enhanced wet-on-wet oil painting with Magic White™. With it, Bill would change, forever, how artists created their paintings. In its purest form Magic White™ was a combination of paint, oil, and solvents. These ingredients and a few others create the slick under-surface for Bill's paintings. Bill's original intention was to use Magic White™ to mix … [Read more...]
The Story of Magic White™
Bill struggled to make money at the beginning of his art career. Traditional methods of oil painting required days or weeks to create an oil painting. Bill could not charge a price for his paintings that compensated him for the time it took to create one. Bill needed a way to speed up the painting process. He could then sell a painting at a price people could afford. He would … [Read more...]
A Revolution
Why clear oil is the key to a beautiful painting.
All oil is alike, right? At the beginning of oil painting, when the "Old Masters" were at work, they used clear oil in their paint. How do we know this? Leonardo recorded it in his notebooks. Vasari referred to it often in his writings. The "Old Masters" tried to keep their oil as clear and as pure as possible. Why would they do this? They knew that clear oil was the … [Read more...]
Reusing A Canvas
One of our recent website visitors asked a question about reusing a canvas on which she had a dried painting. She wanted to know the best way to remove the paint and "save" the canvas. A wet painting is easy to remove. Scrape off the paint with a palette knife, wipe down the canvas and start again. Dried paint is different. I called Alexander Master Artist Tom Anderson and … [Read more...]
Why Use Bill’s Paint?
When I decided to retire, I resolved to pursue painting, something I had wanted to do for a long time. Like many beginners, I suppose, I found myself on the "other guy's" website. I thought I might become certified and, perhaps, teach, since I had been in education for the last 16 years. I stocked up on every imaginable art supply I thought I needed including a lot of the other … [Read more...]