Avoid losing brush hairs while you paint. Bill explains how. … [Read more...]

New brushes can be a bit of a problem until they are broken in. Often a hair will come out of the brush and get "stuck" on your canvas. Bill shows you a quick, easy way to solve this problem so you can keep on painting! Tomorrow we'll show you another way to avoid this pesky problem. … [Read more...]

Watch how the paint is moving now! The paint is breaking properly and it's sticking to the bottom layer! … [Read more...]

Let's review. The bottom layer is too thick. That's why the thick paint Bill used to highlight the mountain slipped. A thin paint sticks to a thicker paint, so Bill has to thin down the highlight paint. He chooses Magic White™ to do that. He could also have used a bit of clear oil. In other Bill videos, he also used paint thinner, but we hope you don't use toxic chemicals like … [Read more...]

We have folks commenting on our YouTube channel all the time. "I try Bill's method of painting but I don't get the same results." Bill gives the same answer here that we give folks. It's not your fault...it's the paint's fault. Soupy paints just will not work. You can get them to work if you do what Bill did 50 years ago before he developed his paint. Set it out on newspaper … [Read more...]

Bill continues his demonstration on fixing the problem of sliding paint. The first post in this series is here. This video clip is from Bill's painting "Glacier Palace". … [Read more...]