When I began painting, I had no idea where to start. I looked around YouTube and found hundreds of thousands of painting videos. Most of those videos are by amateurs and are not real teaching videos. Rookies don’t know how to teach, let alone paint! Many YouTube videos are “Watch Me” videos. The artists seem more concerned with showing you how well they can paint. I even … [Read more...]
Subject – Part I
The artist is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful — as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony. -- James A. McNeill Whistler In a previous article, we talked about a simple formula for pricing your art. We also discussed the importance of attaching a … [Read more...]
Pricing Your Art
How to avoid making “mud!”
I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will. -- Eugene Delacroix We may not be as talented as Delacroix. Let's focus on avoiding the problem of mud in the first place. Earlier we discussed the two types. We also discussed a way we create mud by accident. Let's talk about what you can do to avoid mud. What causes it? There are two … [Read more...]
What is “Mud?”
What is “mud?” What causes it? What can you do about it? You hear the term used by a lot of painters. We will confine our comments to mud as it applies to Bill’s method of oil painting What is it? There are two types of "mud." The first type is what most people think of when they hear the word. In our article on Wet-on-Wet Painting, we explained how wet-on-wet works. This … [Read more...]
Archive treasures!
Every video Bill painted on his television show was painted directly from his imagination. He used no reference paintings, no reference photos. When the cameraman said, "Go", Bill went! Many times Bill showed up for filming with absolutely no idea what he was going to paint. That, my friends, is the sign of a real master artist. Someone so grounded in the art that he could call … [Read more...]
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