Bill shares some interesting thoughts on Mother Nature while he shows you how to block in a tree with the palette knife. Since he's covering over a part of the canvas on which he has not painted, he can lay the paint on pretty thick - and he does! He's all ready for highlighting in the next video. … [Read more...]
We have to make it look good!
Watch as Bill highlights this stone. Count the number of colors you see him lay down with one or two strokes of the palette knife. How does he do that? And then he adds Alizarin Crimson which darkens all the colors but adds to the perspective Bill is achieving. … [Read more...]
Put a bit of sunshine on there!
Watch how easily Bill gets the paint to highlight his mountain on the left. Why does it come off so easily? Could it be that he hasn't worked that area of the canvas for a while? Maybe the paint dried a bit? Certainly his technique is so honed that it only takes a light touch to get the paint off the palette knife. Bill is in the "groove" in this clip. He talks about "pulling … [Read more...]
See how far we came?
Another great lesson in perspective. Can you count the levels of this painting? Each new level Bill has creates more depth in the painting. What's the point he's trying to make about this latest addition to the painting? Why is it so dark? Pop Quiz next week! … [Read more...]
A greenish touch!
Make sure you watch this video clip in full screen mode so you can see how thick the paint is going on those trees. Bill has not thinned the paint, yet he's painting on top of paint. What does that tell you? It should tell you either that bottom layer has dried enough to let the paint stay on and/or that bottom layer is still very thin. Most likely a combination of … [Read more...]
A little touch of sunshine
Notice how Bill fools the cameraman in the beginning of this clip. But he recovers and gets to the right trees just in time for you to see how Bill highlights them. Bill has not painted on this section of the canvas for quite a while so the paint has dried ("tacked up") just a bit. How do we know this? Did Bill thin the yellow paint he uses? Nope. Also notice that the … [Read more...]
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