Bill Little 
Born November 13, 1958 in E.
St. Louis IL. After 4 years of high
school art classes in O’Fallon IL, Bill
began honing his artistic skills while attending
the ‘school of life’ throughout
adulthood. His artistic eye and appreciation
for nature was trained throughout his youth by
yearly trips with his family to visit his
paternal grandmother in the pristine forests of
northern Wisconsin, and frequent trips to his
maternal grandfathers’ farmland in southeast
Illinois. With the exception of attending
several one-day art workshops, his painting
skills were primarily self-acquired through
observation, practice, and study of the works and
methods of the masters of European landscape art
as well as the Hudson River School of New York
State in the mid 1800s. Beginning his oil
painting experience in his early teens by merely
copying his subjects from personal photographs,
in time he began to introduce moods in his
paintings by varying color tones and values, and
through personal experimentation he eventually
began employing sfumato (a technique developed in
the 15th century to seamlessly and carefully
overlay translucent layers of color to create
depth, volume and form without visible
brushstrokes) in his
compositions. Comfortable with a variety of
oil painting methods accumulated through the
years, Bill’s ‘style’ has matured
to feature light-infused atmospheres,
mystery-enshrouded shadows, and what
the early 1800s English
landscape master John Constable called
‘the chiaroscuro of nature’ – the
‘glow’ of classic paintings – in
his landscapes.
Bill Little currently
resides in O’Fallon, IL. While tending
to life’s responsibilities, he continues to
create a modest number of paintings, each of
which reinforce his set of traditional beliefs
along with a deep reverence for the creative
works in nature, and is a member of the Gateway
East Artists’ Guild as well as the St. Louis
Artists’ Guild.He also devotes much time and
thought to studying the piano works of Chopin.
All while entertaining his screwball golden
retriever, Sailor.
Artist Statement
“In
my artistic expressions I am a realist. I
have been endowed with two good eyes to see for
myself what leads to happiness and satisfaction,
and it is my appreciation of the simplest
realities - the painted skies of a summer
evening, water lapping at the side of a dock, a
deer foraging at a fence line… i.e., simple
realities – which give the greatest pleasure
in life and instill confidence in the Creator of
these realities for all future hopes. I am
renewed by conveying the impressions of them, the
feelings of them, as faithfully as possible with
paint; they deserve my very best
brushstrokes.”
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Title: The
River Road
Medium: Oil on
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Size: 15 1/8" x 28
7/8"
Price: $1100 Framed
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Title: The
Loch
Medium: Oil on
Canvas
Size: 24" x
48"
Price: $1700 Framed
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Title:
Imagery Of NW Ontario
Medium: Oil on
Board
Size: 17 1/4" x 27
2/3"
Price: $1300 Framed
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Title: Wine
Bottlle
Medium: Giclee
Print on Canvas
Size: 18" x
24"
Price: $225 Framed
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For
more information About Bill Visit his web site www.BillLittleArt.com To
contact Bill Littleby e -mail: Bill@BillLittleArt.com
or call
his home studio at (618) 624-9914
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