Bill Takes His Time To Get It The Way He Wants! Bill continues on with the background. He shows us that it doesn't matter what we do we can fix it or change the outcome. Points To Consider: Bill doesn't worry about adding too much paint because he can lift it off with his palette knife. By removing the excess paint, Bill can add more on top of the background … [Read more...]

Bill Takes His Time To Get It The Way He Wants! Bill continues on with the background. He shows us that it doesn't matter what we do we can fix it or change the outcome. Points To Consider: Bill doesn't worry about adding too much paint because he can lift it off with his palette knife. By removing the excess paint, Bill can add more on top of the background … [Read more...]

Sharon continues to show us how to paint a beautiful Florida Sunset Sharon adds the distant foliage and waterlines today. Points To Consider: There is a thin coat of wet paint already on the canvas. Sharon keeps the distant foliage loose. If the distant trees are too detailed they won't look like they are in the distance. The closer something is to the … [Read more...]

Thorns, the kind that doesn't hurt to touch! This is a short video but packed with great technique. Lowell shows a simple way to add thorns to the rose stems. They are realistic enough that they look like they would hurt to touch! Key Points To Consider: Lowell is painting on. a wet canvas. He thins his paint with Alexander Magic Clear to an ink-like … [Read more...]

Repetition is the name of the game today. Today's Video Clip is a little longer today and comes from a project by Diane Andre. In another Video Clip, she showed us how to prepare the background with Black Medium and tinting color. Today she will show us how to make all of the water movement. Though she is painting a seascape, this technique works well when creating water … [Read more...]

How Do You Paint From A Photograph? Today's Video Clip comes from our "Alexander Art Guild" online, a weekly, live class with Buck Paulson. Jane asked Buck how he would go about painting this golfer in his "explosion style" as he has done with some of his baseball art. Buck shows us step-by-step how to do it. You never know what you will learn in Buck's class. Not only … [Read more...]