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Old 12-05-2002, 10:17 AM   #35
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Sharon: Thanks for your lovely compliment. It is all opaque paint, and I painted it with Marogers and a touch of oil of spike lavender here and there.

Bill's method really involves beginning very loose and free with broad strokes patched in. He goes from the general to the very specific, refining a passage each time he goes into it. This allows him to selectively leave certain areas of the painting very loose and painterly while making his figure or other areas very tight, or somewhere inbetween.

My example, while it captures the essence of what I learned, does not demonstrate the technique as well as one of his works does since I still was pretty tight even in my first layers.

The one thing you do notice when looking at his progression pictures however, is that he is a master draughtsman and even in the very early stages, everything is exactly where it should be.
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