[Timothy C. Tyler]

We are all forever seeing books and articles entitled the tricks (or secrets) of the masters. There are of course no secrets, there are only methods and techniques and these are NOT secret. It may be hard to find the particular formulas for their mediums etc. but even these were many times put into print.

I think the hardest thing to grasp is that if we were given Bouguereau's equipment, very few of us could make a convincing copy. It's the skill we all really want. The "secret" just sounds like it might be easier to attain.

Information is required certainly and the more the merrier. We share that sort of info here. It's the quiet hours and days alone in the studio applying that knowledge that makes the larger difference in our work.