Wet-on-wet Painting Technique

One of my many best friends throughout my career was the wet-on-wet painting technique. Oil painting
is essentially painting with drying oils that consist of colored pigments. See, normally you would have
to wait for every layer of oil paint to dry before you could paint again, but golly if I wasn’t impatient.
I didn’t want to wait so long to bring all those scenes to life, so I started using the wet-on-wet technique.
That way, I could finish a painting in a short little session. But, the tricky thing about it is that
wet-on-wet makes your painting a little more unpredictable. But, it didn’t bother me. We don’t make
mistakes, just happy little accidents. Anyway, everybody gives me so much love and credit for the
wet-on-wet technique, but it really goes all the way back to the Baroque period. And there were so
many skilled artists using it before me, like Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh. Of course, I can't only
thank my paints. I also had all my different brushes to really put together my little scenes of nature. I
needed a real variety of them because there are so many unique shapes in nature that I wanted to capture.
But gosh at the end of the day I’m just happy I could teach so many people how to use this to make their
own happy little worlds.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Oil Painting.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 29 May 2018, www.britannica.com/art/oil-painting.

Ward, Alvin. “35 Happy Little Facts About Bob Ross.” Mental Floss, 29 Oct. 2018,
www.mentalfloss.com/article/510332/35-happy-little-facts-about-bob-ross.