Wet-on-wet

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Wet-on-wet , or alla prima (Italian, which means in first experiment ), is a technique painted, is used primarily in oil paintings, where a wet coating of paint is applied to a previously treated wet paint layer. This technique requires quick work, because the work must be completed before the first layer is dry. This can also be referred to as direct painting or the French term au premiere coup (in the first stroke).

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Technology

Traditionally, new oil-based paint coatings are applied to most of the paintings only after the previous coating is completely dry; This drying process can last from a few days to several weeks, depending on the thickness of the paint. In contrast, work performed using "alla prima" can be done in one or more sessions (depending on the type of paint used and the drying time of each), and it is common for such work to be completed in just one session or "sit".

In a watercolor medium, wet-on-wet painting requires certain expertise in embracing uncertainty. Highly translucent and susceptible to accidents, watercolor paint will bloom in unexpected ways, depending on the artist's frame of mind, can be a boon or a burden.

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History

Wet-on-wet paintings have been practiced with other techniques since the invention of oil paintings, and were used by some of the earliest early Dutch painters in some parts of their drawings, such as Jan van Eyck in Arnolfini portraits, and Rogier van der Weyden. Among the many Baroque painters who love alla prima techniques are Diego Velázquez and Frans Hals. In the Rococo era, the connoisseurs appreciated the thick painting of prima prima, as exemplified in works by artists such as Jean-Honorà © Fragonard, Francesco Guardi, and Thomas Gainsborough.

Since the mid-19th century, the use of commercially produced pigments in portable tubes has facilitated a variety of easily accessible colors for use for fast and on-site painting. Impressionists like Claude Monet, post-Impressionist like Vincent van Gogh, realists like John Singer Sargent and Robert Henri and George Bellows, Expressionists like Chaim Soutine, and Expressionist Abstract Willem de Kooning has a different way of using this technique, and it is still widely used by both figurative and non-figurative artists;

In recent years, wet-on-wet practices have been known as the main method of painting used by television artists such as Emmy Bill Alexander, Lowell Spears, Buck Paulson, Diane Andre, American artist Bob Ross, Robert Warren, Wilson. Bickford (Painting with Wilson Bickford) and more. Complete painting, using this technique, popularized for imaginative landscape development, takes only a relatively short time. Alexander and Ross can produce the entire landscape in less than half an hour on their respective television shows, The Joy of Painting and The Long Joy of Painting. Ross handed out a fine coat of thin paint, usually white, along the canvas before the painting began so the canvas would always wet and the pigment mixed more efficiently.

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Industrial applications

Wet forms on wet paintings have been used in industrial applications for several years. The German F.A.L. the process of using flax seed oil and sulfurization is used for several years to paint the United States Postal Service van. With dry primary primer development, it is used by Rank Xerox to paint sections for their copiers. The original is clear on the base system for automotive metal finishes using an air drying base. This system, using a flash primer as well, is used for well finished cycles before being used for cars.

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