How does an artist guide the viewer through a painting? Too many distractions and you'll lose the viewer. The picture will confuse them, and they will move on. Oops... missed that sale! Sometimes … [Read more...]
A cloud lesson – Part I
With over four hundred videos in our library archive, you'll never run out of painting projects. We're also now including our "Fundamentals" art course and our "Building Essentials Series" with … [Read more...]
How do you space it?
[Q&A] Why are oils better?
How to make a “happy buck!”
Create beautiful art everyone will love!
How Bill creates depth in his sky!
The power of light!
The student who is desirous of making great proficiency in the art of imitating the works of Nature, should not only learn the shape of figures or other objects, and be able to delineate them with … [Read more...]
“Why shouldn’t I paint something exciting?”
Bill tells a story in today’s video clip about an experience he had driving from Canada to Los Angeles. It happened as he passed by Mount Shasta in northern California. I happened to be walking out … [Read more...]
The fountain and the water-jar!
He who can go to the fountain does not go to the water-jar. — Leonardo da Vinci Bill started painting when he was 14. That was his job as an apprentice to the carriage-maker in the village in which … [Read more...]