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Alla Prima Animation

 I shot stills as I worked on this new piece, painted 'alla prima'. I didn't keep the camera in exactly the right spot and the lighting changed a bit, so I have to get better at lighting and set up but it was fun to do.
Wet-on-wet, or alla prima (Italian, meaning at first attempt), is a painting technique, used mostly in oil painting, in which layers of wet paint are applied to previous layers of wet paint. This technique requires a fast way of working, because the work has to be finished before the first layers have dried.

River Rocks by Janet Fons.

River Rocks, oil on panel, 12 x 16 inches
Rocks and stream (Forest Park, Saint Louis). This is a repaint of an old piece created completely with a palette knife. It really highlights the rough texture of the boulders bordering the stream.