Magic White, not just for priming the canvas and thinning paint anymore! The times, they are a-changing! Bill Alexander invented Magic White®. We know that wet-on-wet is an old technique used hundreds of years ago however, Bill is the one who brought it to the world in our day. Bill decided that since he mixed every color with white that he should just apply it to the … [Read more...]

A Little Paint Goes Along Way! We can't say it enough! If you plan to paint wet-on-wet, the background layer MUST be thin, meaning there needs to be almost no paint applied to the canvas. We love it when Bill shows us what not to do! You might ask why the Alexander paints are so strong! The short answer is, that is how Bill wanted them to be. We still produce the same … [Read more...]

"Train Your Brush?" What? Today's Video Tip is short and sweet. Bill says "train your brush." But what does he mean? He means to load the brush in the way that you want the end results on the canvas. For example, since he wants to see the details of every tiny branch, he loads his brush with little paint. If he wanted to fill the tree in, he would load more paint on the … [Read more...]

It Happens To All of Us...Eventually! Has this happened to you? A painting that you really love that you either painted yourself or someone has given you, gets sliced! Canvas seems so sturdy... until it isn't. It doesn't take much to put a hole in a canvas. Possibly because it is stretched so tightly. Well, you don't have to worry about it anymore. Today Tom will show you … [Read more...]

A Little Paint Goes Along Way! We can't say it enough! If you plan to paint wet-on-wet, the background layer MUST be thin, meaning there needs to be almost no paint applied to the canvas. We love it when Bill shows us what not to do! You might ask why the Alexander paints are so strong! The short answer is, that is how Bill wanted them to be. We still produce the same … [Read more...]

"Train Your Brush?" What? Today's Video Tip is short and sweet. Bill says "train your brush." But what does he mean? He means to load the brush in the way that you want the end results on the canvas. For example, since he wants to see the details of every tiny branch, he loads his brush with little paint. If he wanted to fill the tree in, he would load more paint on the … [Read more...]