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Traditionally, a new layer of oil-based paint is applied to most parts of a painting only after allowing a previous layer to dry completely; this drying process can take from several days to several weeks, depending on the thickness of the paint. In contrast, work performed using alla prima can be carried out in one or more sessions (depending on the types of paint used and their respective drying times), and it is common for such a work to be finished in only one session or "sitting".
In the medium of watercolors, wet-on-wet painting requires a certain finesse in embracing unpredictability. Highly translucent and prone to accidents, watercolor paint will bloom in unpredictable ways that, depending on the artist's frame of mind, can be a boon or a burden.
Wet-on-wet painting has been practiced alongside other techniques since the development of oil painting, and was used by several of the major early Netherlands painters in parts of their pictures, such as Jan Van Eyck in the Arnolfini Portrait, and Rogier Van Der Weyden.
Since the mid-19th century, the use of commercially produced paints in small collapsible tubes has facilitated an easily accessible variety of colors to be used for rapid and on-the-spot painting. Impressionists such as Claude Monet, post-Impressionists such as Vincent Van Gouh, realists such as John Singer Sargent and Robert Henri and George Bellows, Expressionists such as Chaïm Soutine, and the Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning have in different ways employed this technique, and it is still heavily used by both figurative and non-figurative fine artists. Artist Bob Ross employed the technique for his show The Joy of Painting in order to produce complete pieces in real time within a single episode.
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