Bill Alexander - Autumn Colors

Bill Alexander's Autumn Colors, this was a fun one! When I watched the video of this today, I was first like "eh, hypnotizing the whole background? I don't know, it'd look better with a lot of individual leaves." And then the leaves came, and it's a stunning autumn scene! I decided there and then that I'll paint it as a comeback to Bob's/Bill's style of painting!

This one didn't even take that long for me to paint, just almost 2h including prepping the canvas with linseed oil and titanium white. (I use watersoluble oils, so that's a workaround for liquid white).

I'm pretty pleased with the results! Maybe the bushes and branches could have better shapes of foliage, but for my skills they are prettt good! With a few drops of linseed oil, the highlights flowed nicely from my brush, and didn't make a terrible mess like sometimes in my past.

I always wonder, the colours seem to always flow very painlessly for Bill and Bob when they paint, do they use more paint, or do they use way less absorbent canvases? My paint always seems to leave streaks, and it doesn't seem to go as far as in these videos. Like Bill makes those solid, footlong strokes effortlessly. Makes you wonder what's the difference...

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