"Grey is Far Away!" Today's Video Tip is short but powerful. Key Points To Consider: Bill is making a distant landmass. He wants it to appear far away. He mixes blue and white and applies the color on the canvas. Immediately he knows it is too dark, too blue. Bill doesn't panic! He scrapes the paint off and then adds white to get the distant color he … [Read more...]

"You Can't Make Yellow Yellower" Bill Alexander Bill loved to paint light. He used to say, "You can't make yellow, yellower, you can't make red, redder." What he meant is that the way to make things look brighter can't be done just by adding more light paint." As artists, we create the illusion of light. There is no better way to brighten something up than to surround it … [Read more...]

Prepare the Background for a Brilliant Sunset Bill always studied nature. It was common to find him looking at the sky or the moss on the trees. The beauty of Mother Nature moved Bill and he was motivated to capture it on canvas. Today's Video Tip shows Bill preparing the background for a brilliant sunset. Please realize that Bill loved people and he meant it when he said … [Read more...]

Prepare the Background for a Brilliant Sunset Bill always studied nature. It was common to find him looking at the sky or the moss on the trees. The beauty of Mother Nature moved Bill and he was motivated to capture it on canvas. Today's Daily Video Tip shows Bill preparing the background for a brilliant sunset. Please realize that Bill loved people and he meant it when he … [Read more...]

How To Define A Forest Today's Video Tip shows us how to make a forest look realistic. There are several lessons to learn in this short clip by Bill. Key Points To Consider: Bill's canvas is wet He already added the dark and medium values on the canvas. Bill doesn't clean his brush as he wants the medium value to mix with the highlights. He first mixes his … [Read more...]

Tom shares another technique from our Introductory Master Class Today's Video Clip comes from our "Alexander Introductory Master Class with Tom Anderson." This is the third painting in a series of five. He is painting the clouds in this beautiful, tropical beach scene. Today we want you to focus on his brush loading and painting technique. The combination of loading the … [Read more...]