Too Much Magic White™ Tom says Sin #1 is, "Applying too much Magic White™. It should be very thin." Bill warns us at the beginning of almost all his videos not to apply too much Magic White™ to the canvas. If the Magic White™ layer is too thick, the next layer of paint is going to slide, or worse - create mud. Bill also cautions us that you can't make a thicker … [Read more...]
The Origin of Magic White
Probably the greatest innovation (of many) that Bill made to the centuries old Wet-on-Wet technique of oil painting was Magic White. Bill's autobiography, "The Bill Alexander Story" documents the journey Bill made in perfecting the perfect formula for this special paint. … [Read more...]
Streamline and Innovate!
At Alexander Art, we watch a lot of Bill's videos. We watch them in slow motion to analyze his brush strokes. We pay particular attention to how he mixes colors. We play them over and over, because we always find something that we didn't see before. It was during these viewings that we began to notice some interesting things. We paid close attention to how Bill used his … [Read more...]
How do you improve on an innovation?
Bill was an innovator. He enhanced wet-on-wet oil painting with Magic White™. With it, Bill would change, forever, how artists created their paintings. In its purest form Magic White™ was a combination of paint, oil, and solvents. These ingredients and a few others create the slick under-surface for Bill's paintings. Bill's original intention was to use Magic White™ to mix … [Read more...]
The Story of Magic White™
Bill struggled to make money at the beginning of his art career. Traditional methods of oil painting required days or weeks to create an oil painting. Bill could not charge a price for his paintings that compensated him for the time it took to create one. Bill needed a way to speed up the painting process. He could then sell a painting at a price people could afford. He would … [Read more...]