What Does Imagination Have To Do With It? Today's Video Tip will start a series of tips by Buck Paulson. Bill and Buck are walking along our old favorite walking trail. This trail is in Minto Brown Park, in Salem Oregon and it follows the edge of the Willamette River. The Willamette River flows north to the Columbia River and then out to the Pacific Ocean. It looks like … [Read more...]

Bill adds the highlights and colors to create a beautiful autumn scene. Today's Video Tip will bring a smile to your face! Not only does Bill create a beautiful autumn scene, but he has fun while he is doing it. No one knew better than Bill about darkness and light. If you watched his autobiography that we sent out at Christmas time, you know that he started out life in a … [Read more...]

Bill adds the highlights and colors to create a beautiful autumn scene. Today's Video Tip will bring a smile to your face! Not only does Bill create a beautiful autumn scene, but he has fun while he is doing it. No one knew better than Bill about darkness and light. If you've watched his autobiography, you know that he started out life in a very gruesome environment. A lot … [Read more...]

Add A Tree Trunk and it Starts to Make Sense! Today's Video Clip comes from our Intermediate Master Class with Tom Anderson. Last time he showed us how to put in the green-grey foliage to represent the foliage on the backside of the tree. Now he lays in the tree trunk and it starts to make sense. Have you noticed that Tom uses the primary colors to mix all of the colors … [Read more...]

Add A Tree Trunk and it Starts to Make Sense! Today's Video Clip comes from our Intermediate Master Class with Tom Anderson. Last time he showed us how to put in the green-grey foliage to represent the foliage on the backside of the tree. Now he lays in the tree trunk and it starts to make sense. Have you noticed that Tom uses the primary colors to mix all of the colors … [Read more...]

How Does Bill Make The Water Look "Believable"? Today's Video Tip by Bill Alexander is a great lesson on how to make the water look believable. He has already created beautiful reflections in the water. Adding waterlines on top of the water pushes the reflections deep into the water. Points To Consider: Bill is painting into wet paint. The reflections are deep … [Read more...]