If you have enough creative power, you can make anything you want out of the land. You can put it in poems, you can put it in songs, you can put it in paintings. That way you are living as a free person and you are creating, you are being free. -- Bill Alexander … [Read more...]
“Everything I can do, you can do better!” — Bill Alexander
Bill has some fun with his producer, John Hartman. They get into an argument about which word should be used in Bill's opening song. Bill loved his fans. His shows contained encouragement, inspiration, motivation, and, of course, painting. … [Read more...]
“I will only make it better!”
Bill believed in creative power. Bill believed that, through art, we could release the creative power inside all of us. Creative power empowers us to become not just great artists, but great human beings! He believed that we are stewards responsible for this beautiful, God-given world. Bill dedicated his life to capturing the beauty he saw around him on the canvas. … [Read more...]
Good Enough?
Copy machine You need to make a copy of a document, so you go down to your local office supply store. The attendant takes your original, slaps it down on the glass and, seconds later, hands you the copy. When you get home and look at it, you notice a small hair must have been on the glass. Now, that hair is part of your copy. You think to yourself, it's too much of a hassle to … [Read more...]
The Gap
What do you think most artists consider the number one obstacle to their success? The following is a response from a survey we ran that's typical of a lot of responses. I want so much to paint. I love painting. It makes me feel alive; I feel myself become someone else like I am part of that painting. I think what is holding me back is I seem to think I'm not able to do … [Read more...]
Teaching us to live!
Tom Anderson, Alexander Master Artist, posed this question to us the other day. What if there had been no Bill Alexander? It's kind of interesting when you think about it, isn't it? Bill Alexander was, perhaps, one of the most important people in art in the last one hundred years. Don't you think he deserves a little recognition for his contribution? Early Life Bill was born … [Read more...]