As one who sold thousands of paintings in his lifetime, no one better understood what a painting needed to be marketable. In this clip, Bill gives you one tip he used to get his paintings off the gallery walls and the "happy buck" into his pocket. You can use this tip too! … [Read more...]

One thing you have to say about Bill...he wasn't afraid to speak his mind. In fact, some of his videos could not be shown on television for exactly that reason. Fortunately his message today isn't quite as controversial. Bill states over and over in his videos to keep your layers of paint thin. If there is any secret to his method of oil painting, this would certainly be at … [Read more...]

Here it is! The video clip you've been waiting for! Bill shows you exactly what happens when you put too much Magic White™ on the canvas. OK...OK...we should have showed you this earlier, but we only discovered it recently while editing the over 200 videos of Bill we've uploaded to the site for our Silver members. What? You're not a Silver member yet? Wow! You're missing out … [Read more...]

Bill has completed this painting and reviews the elements and layers he created. Count how many individual elements he has in this painting and how each is painted with its own unique property that helps with perspective. From the dark detailed foreground stones to the distant "fuzzy" mountains...this is a great mini-lesson in creating perspective in your paintings. … [Read more...]

It never ceases to amaze us how fluent Bill is with the fan brush. Watch closely in this video how Bill uses every part of the brush. Don't know if you can see it, but when he pulls the paint across the tree trunk, he starts his stroke by pressing a bit to the right, bending the bristles of the brush and then pulling them across the tree trunk. This is a very delicate move … [Read more...]

Bill explains how to hold the palette knife for maximum efficiency. … [Read more...]