Wet-on-wet

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Frans Hals, Jasper Schade van Westrum (1645); painted mostly wet-on-wet. The forehead has portions of wet (white) over dry (brown/black).
Rembrandt, Portrait of Jan Six (1654) has numerous uses of the wet-on-wet method.
Winslow Homer, Rowing Home (1890), an example of the wet-on-wet technique in watercolor, especially in the sky

Wet-on-wet, or alla prima (Italian, meaning at first attempt), direct painting or au premier coup,[1] is a painting technique in which layers of wet paint are applied to previously administered layers of wet paint. 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.

  1. ^ "Techniques for Creating a Painting". ThoughtCo. Retrieved 29 October 2020.