In 1841 a portrait painter and tinkerer, John Golf Rand, invented the collapsible artist's paint tube. I've read that Renoir said, "Without tubes of paint, there would have been no Impressionism." Really? Like most stuff you read on the Internet, those types of "quotes" remind me of that game of "Gossip" we played as kids. Go ahead, google Renoir's quote and see what pops … [Read more...]
Learn a new language
My mother was a math teacher. She was kind of famous in the county where she taught. Some folks told me she probably taught over half the kids in the county over her lifetime. It seems they either loved her or hated her. There was no in-between with mom. I, myself, didn't do really well in math. At least not like my brother who was a math whiz. He ended up going to MIT and … [Read more...]
A child’s imagination
My daughter-in-law Nicole texted us this morning with a video she secretly recorded of our granddaughter Sloane. Sloane was dancing on the deck behind their new home. I wonder if Philip and Nicole realized they were adding a performance stage to their house. Did they think about ballerinas and stage lights? It didn't take long for Sloane to figure it out, … [Read more...]
Guiding Principles
What if every time you painted you created a masterpiece? Here's how the Old Masters did it for centuries. Time-Tested Principles Don't make up new rules of art. According to rabbinic tradition, Ecclesiastes was written by King Solomon in his old age. Solomon writes, "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the … [Read more...]
Terror of the Blank Canvas
Bill talks about the "Terror of the Blank Canvas" in many of his videos. He jokes that "That canvas is scared of me." What Bill is talking about is the main reason most people don't become artists. People tell us the number one obstacle holding them back from becoming the artist they want to be is... Self-Confidence There are two other obstacles that people mention as … [Read more...]
Walking with God
There is a neat part of Genesis where God and Adam are walking together around the world. This passage, by the way, helps explain what artists do. Or instead what artists do not do. So from the soil Yahweh God fashioned all the wild beasts and all the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them; each one was to bear the name the man would give … [Read more...]
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