Bob Ross (painter)
He repeatedly stated on the show his belief that everyone had inherent artistic talent and could become an accomplished artist given time, practice, and encouragement, and to this end was often fond of saying, We don t have mistakes here, we just have happy accidents. In many episodes of The Joy of Painting, he noted that one of his favorite parts of painting was cleaning the brush, specifically his method of drying off a brush, which he had dipped in odorless thinner, by striking it against the thinner can and easel. Small animals often appeared on his show, even during some of his trickier works, as he would often take in injured or abandoned squirrels and other assorted wildlife and look after them. The show can be seen on the PBS oriented Create. Ross utilized the wet-on-wet oil painting technique, in which the painter continues adding paint on top of still wet paint rather than waiting a lengthy amount of time to allow each layer of paint to dry. Ross noted that the landscapes he painted - typically mountains, lakes, snow, and log cabin scenes - were strongly influenced by his years living in Alaska, where he was stationed for the majority of his Air Force career.Air Force as a medical records technician. Ross had a son, Steven, from his first marriage to Lydia. He died of lymphoma in 1995 at the age of 52. After graduating high school, Ross had a 20-year career in the U.S.
It s because I can create the kind of world that I want, and I can make this world as happy as I want it. Robert Norman Ross (October 29, 1942 – July 4, 1995) was an American painter, art instructor, and television host. With his calm, patient demeanor, Ross came to prominence as the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, a television program that ran for twelve years on PBS stations in the United States.
He parlayed this success into a commercial Bob Ross brand: an industry of art books and supplies. Shoot, if you want bad stuff, watch the news. After his death, Bob Ross Incorporated donated most of his paintings to charities and public television stations. .
He would smile and often laugh aloud as he beat the devil out of it. He also used a pallette which had been lightly sanded down which was necessary to avoid catching the reflections of strong studio lighting. When asked about his laid-back approach to painting and eternally calm and contented demeanor, he once commented: I got a letter from somebody here a while back, and they said, Bob, everything in your world seems to be happy. That s for sure. That s why I paint.
Steven occasionally appeared on The Joy of Painting and is a Bob Ross-certified instructor. Ross has a brother Jim, whom he mentions in passing on his show. Ross was the host of the public television series The Joy of Painting, which ran from 1983 to 1994 and still Ross later founded his own successful line of art supplies and how-to books, and also offered painting classes taught by instructors trained in the Bob Ross method. In a 1990 interview, Ross mentioned that all his programs were donated free of charge to PBS stations and that his earnings came instead from sales of his 20 books and 100 videotapes (the total to that date), as well as profits from some 150 Bob Ross-trained teachers and a line of art materials sold through a national supplier. Ross also filmed wildlife footage, squirrels in particular, usually from his own garden.
