This method is also called "alla prima".

With the 20th century's emphasis on direct (alla prima) painting, the grisaille technique lost favor with artists of the period.

The emphasis in each period was on Alla Prima, or Direct Painting systems of the various periods.

I lombardi alla Prima Crociata (opera by Verdi)

A palatial, panty palace with beautiful high ceilings and a spacious shop floor, Alla Prima has been providing San Franciscans with sophisticated underwear for the past four years.

Stove Prairie Press, LLC is Richard Schmid's independent publishing company which he started for the purpose of publishing Alla Prima.

Richard Schmid is the author of Alla Prima, Everything I know about Painting, an art instruction book first published in 1998 by Stove Prairie Press, LLC.

Work done using "alla prima" can be carried out in one or more sessions - depending of the type of paints used and their respective drying time - but it is mostly done in one session or "sitting" only.

"Stiffelio" (1850) has had its turn; "I Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata" ("The Lombards on the First Crusade," 1843) arrives on Thursday evening, with Luciano Pavarotti reprising a role he sang in a celebrated Rome production almost a quarter-century ago.

Mr. Treator paints both traditionally and in the wet-on-wet technique popularized on television.

Working from memory rather than close observation, and using a diaphanous wet-on-wet technique, he introduced fantasy and religious subjects into his repertory.

While the television show features a wet-on-wet technique in which Mr. Teator is an expert, he is also a traditional painter.

Mr. Katz is adept at reducing very specific and rather mundane perceptions to their dramatic optical essences, spelled out in his subtly flamboyant wet-on-wet technique.

The workshop, sponsored by the Westchester County Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation, will be led by Michael Teator, an artist and instructor of traditional and wet-on-wet techniques.

Whether Ross actually invented the technique of instant art is a matter of debate: his archrival on television, the Bavarian-born William Alexander, was also his teacher, and Alexander has claimed that Ross stole the fabled wet-on-wet technique from him.

If one uses traditional paper, the idea of an "ink wash" refers to a wet-on-wet technique, applying black ink to paper where a lighter ink has already been applied, or by quickly manipulating watery diluted ink once it has been applied to the paper by using a very large brush.