Creative Power...that's what makes me so happy -- Bill Alexander Bill's imagination takes him to the place he is creating. This is creative power at work. When Bill lays in that shoreline, he is there on that lake with his fishing pole in the water waiting patiently for that first bite! Bill spent a lot of time communing with Mother Nature. The images he saw became part of … [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...]
“Coming forwards”
Bill continues his process of bringing the painting forward into the foreground. The mountains are finished and Bill is working on the "middle" of the painting. As you look at the painting now, the mountains are predominant, but watch as he continues this painting, how they will move farther and farther back. Notice how clear Bill is about the next parts of the painting. … [Read more...]
Painting Colonels
Bill was captured shortly after D-Day and sent to a prisoner of war camp in Marseilles where he spent the rest of the war. We tell his story about that experience in "The Bill Alexander Story". Bill endeared himself to his captors and they set him up with his own art studio. Bill became popular by painting portraits of the officers and their wives. He also began his teaching … [Read more...]
Painting the Queen
People always think you have to work for hours and years on a lousy painting. -- Bill Alexander Bill has some fun and tells a short story about an artist who painted the Queen of England. Bill could never understand why it took so long for many artists to create a painting. Maybe this story explains why. … [Read more...]
Exquisite detail
Please watch these video clips in full screen mode. (click the icon at the right of the video control bar) The resolution is high enough that you should be able to see Bill's technique in exquisite detail. We're giving you these short clips so you can focus on each part of his technique that otherwise might be lost in a complete video. (Don't worry, we'll be posting full … [Read more...]