We love Bill.

He was such an unassuming human being. He could poke fun at himself, and it didn’t bother him at all. He didn’t care what others thought or their opinions about him. Bill was too busy creating.

You are always going to be painting light and dark areas of your painting. It helps to have two separate brushes. You’ll want to use one brush for lighter colors and the other for darker colors.

In Master Class, Tom Anderson teaches that you don’t have to clean your brushes as much as you might think. As you paint, your brush takes on a neutral gray appearance. This gray is a combination of many of the colors on your palette. Bill says in some of his videos that the colors in the sky will be in the mountains, the water, and the trees. You want to keep those colors in your brush.

The same idea applies when you are painting light colors. You’ll want a brush for those lighter colors. As with the dark colors, you will still want a blend of light colors in your brush.

Carry your colors from top to bottom and from the back to the front of your painting. Your painting will be more realistic — like Mother Nature.

Bill’s life lesson will flit by you like the techniques we showed you yesterday. Bill is entertaining, and it’s easy to miss what he’s saying to you. Let’s listen again to what he says.

“You got no time to think about what happen to yourself because you are creating, you are almighty creating!”

The bane of every artist is that inner critic – the judge. It sits in your head and criticizes every brush stroke.

“Uh oh, you certainly messed that up!”

“Are you kidding me, you think anyone is going to like that?”

“I don’t know whatever made you think you could paint.”

And what happens?

The more you paint, the worse your painting looks. Before you know it, you are scraping the paint off the canvas with your palette knife. Then you’re wiping the canvas with paint thinner and paper towels.

What does Bill say?

“You got no time to think about what happen to yourself!”

He’s talking about everything that keeps you from doing what?

From Creating!

That’s your job at the canvas! You are an artist. You are creating! You can let nothing can get in the way when your creative power is on the loose!

Tell that inner critic to bottle it! You are too busy to listen right now. Maybe later. Maybe never!

You are creating. You are almighty creating!