![]() ![]() You should be able to see it immediately.Īnd, when I talk about this concept, there are always a few people who defend this way of painting as being just as valid as the way Rembrandt, for example, painted.īut don’t take my word for it. The difference is not simply darker colors, or that the traditional paintings look more real. The difference will be immense and most noticeable in person. But Artists from Titian to Monet have painted wet on wet.Īnyway…I suggest you get yourself to any art museum near or in a large city and look at the landscape paintings by the great painters of history. ![]() It’s a term that has been used for branding purposes to describe the method, and that’s fine. Painters have been using wet into wet paint since painting began. On a side note: “Wet into wet painting is nothing new. His technique was different than Constable’s, but not to the degree that you may think.Ĭan you see the difference between the Constable, the Renoir and those using what is referred to on tv as the “wet-on-wet” technique? ![]() Here is another landscape, with water by Pierre Renoir… He was an English painter in the early 1800’s John Constable is recognized as one of the greatest landscape painters in history. This is a landscape painting by John Constable. Let me explain a little more…please take a look at this… It is not the way the greatest painters of the past have painted. Those people who perhaps have doubts that they can.įor someone who is more traditional minded and serious about learning to oil paint, the above methods are not going to get you where you are hoping to go. So this article is for people who currently paint the way I described above and would like to go beyond that way of painting. If you have been to art museums and seen traditional works of art – that’s what I teach. Now, I teach oil painting, but that is not the methods, or type of painting I teach. “loading a corner of the 2 inch brush and tapping from side to side” – that sort of instruction. and teach you to paint trees by doing something such as So when I say the “Bob Ross painting technique” what I’m referring to are those painters that use things like “magic brushes” or a “foliage brush”, “liquid white” etc. And, have you ever met a guy who seemed to be a nicer and gentler person? I mean, come on. That would be William Alexander.Īnyway, the guy was fun to watch – I mean we all know that. I suppose Bob Ross is the most known of them although he wasn’t the originator of that way of painting. Many people started to paint by following those “wet on wet” tv painters on PBS stations. ![]()
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