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.”

Click On Picture For Larger Version Title: The River Road   Medium: Oil on Board  Size: 15 1/8" x 28 7/8"  Price: $1100 Framed

Click On Picture For Larger Version Title: The Loch   Medium: Oil on Canvas   Size: 24" x 48"  Price: $1700 Framed

Click On Picture For Larger Version Title: Imagery Of NW Ontario   Medium: Oil on Board  Size: 17 1/4" x 27 2/3"  Price: $1300 Framed

Click On Picture For Larger Version Title: Wine Bottlle   Medium: Giclee Print on Canvas  Size: 18" x 24"  Price: $225 Framed

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