Billy Williams

Graphic Designer, Freelance Artist Billy Williams has watched his love for art grow from elementary school sketchings to acrylic and water color paintings. Williams began dabbling in acrylics in high school, where he also worked on sets for plays and teachers often asked him to do portraits and other paintings.

At Kansas State University Williams majored in graphic design. There he took his first water color class and became hooked on that medium. Many of his works include an array of faces, some are silhouettes, others have colorful detail, and often many faces are morphed together to create the appearance of one. For a soft appeal, Williams prefers water colors to other mediums because it gives the warm tones often seen in his paintings.

Besides using water colors, in school he became a graphic artist, using programs including PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXpress and Dreamweaver. Creating art on computers proved to be one his many talents and led to a job as an art administrator for a marketing company that serves businesses across the nation.

Currently residing in St. Louis, Williams continues to freelance. When it’s not water colors, it’s acrylics, which he uses for pieces with brighter, sharper colors. Williams prefers acrylics to oil because when he is inspired, he doesn’t want to wait for the piece to dry. He wants to create on his own time – not the medium’s.

Music, specifically hip hop, inspires Williams. The smooth, soulful sounds create an energy that he transfers to his art. The moods of the music are mirrored in the expressions of his characters, from love to hate, to hurt and happiness.