The Painter’s Process - The Inner Voice
Author: William F. Reese
When I attended the Plein Air Painters of America workshop of March 2018 at the Booth Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, my instructors highly recommended the book The Painter’s Process – The Inner Voice by William Reese. Sadly, Reese died in June of 2010. His wife, Fran, personally fulfilled my order for his book.
Reese was a versatile artist adept at working in different mediums - oil, pastel, watercolor, drawing, lithographs, etchings, and sculpture. He valued painting from life. His paintings are expressive. And like Frederic Remington, Reese knew horses. His book, The Painter’s Process – The Inner Voice, is a compilation of Reese’s philosophy of his painting process. The book is chocked full of nuggets of wisdom and inspirations. I’m glad Matt Smith and Ralph Oberg recommended this book to me. It’s a valued volume in my library.
It’s only available directly from William Reese’s website. There are other books and videos there that may be of interest to you on his website.
Artist and Author William F. Reese
“It is simplicity and poetry that makes things more real, it is the poetry that makes a painting so profound. The abstraction or form is what gives it order, it is what makes the viewer think.”
