Forest Creek

Beautiful! Did you use an underpainting of gesso’s? Really nice scene.

Beautifully done. The stones under the water are excellent.

Really nice and love the stones!

There is no underpainting, it's done entirely in oil. Not a wet-on-wet technique.

Umm yeah I could have read your description. Doh!

I changed it after your message :)

The Kevin Hill lesson, Kevin painted this with an underpainting "block in" and is wet on wet technique...

Did you feel more control by painting layers? What did you like more about this technique versus wet-on-wet? Nice misty morning mood you created!

@joypittura they were asking about an underpainting with gesso or acrylics. Kevin Hill puts down oil and then wipes the majority of it off with a shop towel. Not the same as Bob’s pure wet on wet.

@Sunnylady Since Joypittura made an account just to correct me, I want to clarify. Kevin Hill puts down oil paint, then wipes off almost all of it so just the color remains. (Joypittura is considering this "blocking in" and therefore wet-on-wet, however, that's not actually accurate) It's not nearly as slippery and I make much less mud, and therefore, end up scraping a lot less off to repaint it. So, I don't consider it a wet-on-wet like Bob did. I do feel in more control of the paint, and almost as if it is more forgiving.

@akrntanya I totally agree that it isn’t wet on wet like Bob’s style. I’ve done a few ‘Kevin’s’ and the wipe it off approach makes the highlights and detailing much simpler as you are painting onto a virtually dry canvas.

You guys intrigued me. :) based on description it is still wet on wet as it is done in one sitting. I will check his video if that one is free.

Overall I agree Kevin follows more of classic rules of oil painting. This one in particular would be called fat over lean. It allows more control and this is what I liked about Kevin’s tutorials. You would not imagine how many times Bob made me mad with his thick layers of paint.
I just thought based on your initial description that he did layering which is equal to me as glazing. I was surprised to learn something new about Kevin.
But I totally hear you as there are too many terms to deal with in oil painting, and no surprise we may call same thing different names.

PS only after couple of years and different instructions I realized thicker oil paint needs more skills to handle it.
So enjoy that control that Kevin showed you!