Used mostly in oil painting the technique requires a fast way of working because the work has to be finished before the first layers have dried.
Wet on wet oil painting portrait.
Liquid white is a bob ross brand oil based painting medium and almost a must have for wet on wet oil painting.
In this portrait i decided to try technique which is used in oil paintings.
You can try the techniques in oils or acrylics.
I called several local colleges and left messages on numerous answering machines.
About wet on wet painting in oil or acrylic.
Only one person replied.
You get two strokes with a flat bristle brush one side then the other look at the brush for any paint it picked up and wipe it think of the brush hairs as if they were the fingers on your hand stroking the surface.
Usually watercolor start to paint from the most light area and to the most dark.
As soon as i mentioned my desire to learn wet on wet oil painting technique i was told oh no serious painter does that i was somewhat taken aback by that remark.
This method allows wet paint to go over another wet color with clean results.
Here i made all the shadows first.
This product is used as a base coat for many of bob ross s pbs paintings.
The paint can be applied before the under paint dries.
Allaprima limitedpalette sketchbook cesarsantos for technical instructions go to my website.
A selection of how to painting episodes in the wet on wet oil painting technique hosted by jason bowen.
Liquid white prolongs the drying time of your oil paints and allows you to work with a wet canvas for several days.
The idea is to paint a picture in one sitting.
You might paint a sky.
Then while it is still wet paint a tree over that sky.
I asked why and was told something to the effect that it was not.