Overview of styles

Wet on wet

This technique is developed and improved by Bob Ross. It's a technique where you use a medium like "liquid white" to blend your colors on the canvas. Typical by this technique is that they use big brushes to paint a lot of things like the sky, clouds and foliage....

In addition some other mediums exist to make different effects on the canvas. One can use a transparant medium named "liquid clear" and a dark medium called "liquid black" which is used to paint something with a dark background.

Australian fine art

The Australian fine art technique is a combination of different techniques to get a more professional outcome with your painting(s). The basic painting layer exists out a very light colored paint in which they add a lot of effects, a lot of "movement", a lot of brush regions. They let everything dry and later they add different layers of glazing(s).

Classic painting technique

The classic painting technique dates from centuries ago. The preparation of the canvas was extremely important. Once they had prepared the canvas the artist added layer by layer(s) paint in different techniques. They started with dark colors and added light colors and glazes.

Some artists like Hunter used a lot of different layers of glazes to realize beautiful paintings.