Talk:Wet-on-wet

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How exactly is the technique begun? What exactly is used as the first, 'wet' coat?

On the show Bob used a layer of Liquid White. --193.11.222.179 17:55, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

the first layer must stay wet until the last layer is completed —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.129.67.114 (talk) 10:24, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Look at the article Wet-on-wet. It explains that the technique was used by Rembrant and other painters at least 400 years ago.Roger491127 (talk) 04:15, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Why not just "painting on wet" No need to specify "wet on wet." Nobody applies dry paint on wet. It's just on wet.24.236.92.77 (talk) 23:20, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Also, "alla prima" does not mean "wet on wet". No dictionary definition I could find of "alla prima" mentions "wet on wet". https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/alla-prima https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alla%20prima 24.236.92.77 (talk) 00:06, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Wet-on-wet" is a standard term in common use; "painting on wet" is not. Michael Clarke (2010, The Concise Dictionary of Art Terms, 2nd ed.) gives this definition for alla prima: "Used to describe painting directly on to the canvas without preliminary underdrawing or underpainting (i.e. building up successive layers of paint). Synonymous terms are ‘wet on wet’, ‘direct painting’, and the French au premier coup." Ewulp (talk) 01:45, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Missing aspect[edit]

The article says nothing about *why* artists would want to use this technique. Does it give a particular depth or translucence? Is the end result substantially and visibly different from the other way (where layers are allowed to dry)? It says how it's done and who used it, but not what the aesthetic benefits are. Bookgrrl ^holler/lookee here 01:16, 3 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Uncited material in need of citations[edit]

I am moving the following uncited material here until it can be properly supported with inline citations of reliable, secondary sources, per WP:V, WP:CS, WP:IRS, WP:PSTS, WP:BLP, WP:NOR, et al. This diff shows where it was in the article. Nightscream (talk) 19:43, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

History[edit]

Among the many Baroque painters who favored an alla prima technique were Diego Velázquez and Frans Hals. In the Rococo era, connoisseurs appreciated bold alla prima painting, as exemplified in the works of artists such as Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Francesco Guardi, and Thomas Gainsborough.^{[citation needed]}
The wet-on-wet practice was the primary method of painting used by such television artists as Bill Alexander, Bob Ross, and Robert Warren. Complete paintings, using this technique, popularized for the construction of imaginative landscapes, only take a relatively short period of time. Alexander and Ross could produce an entire landscape in under half an hour on their respective television shows, The Magic of Oil Painting and the long-running The Joy of Painting. Ross distributed a smooth basecoat of thinned paint, usually white, along the canvas before painting started so the canvas would always be wet and the pigments could more efficiently mix.^{[citation needed]}