I love Bob Ross. Adore him. He has the most gentle calm voice. If you are at home sick or attempting to get some quality sleep - get Bob Ross on your TV. Best sleep you will ever enjoy. Out like a baby.
He was the human bedtime story, a happy little tree of serenity. I tried to actually learn from his show and paint something once rather than just use it as aural wallpaper when home sick from school. Disaster. Not good. Sad little shrubs with Mt. Cookiemonster in the background. Made me appreciate people who are actually good at visual arts.
Dad was watching this guy and mentioned he was an Air Force Master Sargent. I said, "Surprising. I took him for a Viet Nam era hippy burnout." An honest assessment. Dad cracked up so hard I can still hear him laughing at that.
Armatel, I think he uses a Magic White technique: coating the whole surface with thinned slippery white (or black) then applying colors over it that slip and slide and mix right there on the canvass. Lots of scraping with a palette knife.
Quite a while ago, he was at the Ace hardware store in New Richmond doing one of his painting classes. I didn't go see him, but I thought at the time that it was really out of the way for him to be.
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I'm guessing that his wife never got to do a TV commercial for Oxydol or Calgon or anything like that.
I love Bob Ross. Adore him. He has the most gentle calm voice. If you are at home sick or attempting to get some quality sleep - get Bob Ross on your TV. Best sleep you will ever enjoy. Out like a baby.
He was the human bedtime story, a happy little tree of serenity.
I tried to actually learn from his show and paint something once rather than just use it as aural wallpaper when home sick from school. Disaster. Not good. Sad little shrubs with Mt. Cookiemonster in the background. Made me appreciate people who are actually good at visual arts.
Dad was watching this guy and mentioned he was an Air Force Master Sargent. I said, "Surprising. I took him for a Viet Nam era hippy burnout." An honest assessment. Dad cracked up so hard I can still hear him laughing at that.
Armatel, I think he uses a Magic White technique: coating the whole surface with thinned slippery white (or black) then applying colors over it that slip and slide and mix right there on the canvass. Lots of scraping with a palette knife.
The Merle Norman Cosmetics stores used the same white-out/palette knife technique, except they did it to women's faces.
I used to work in a retail shopping mall.
* shudders *
Whaaaaat?
He was the human bedtime story, a happy little tree of serenity.
ah.
Quite a while ago, he was at the Ace hardware store in New Richmond doing one of his painting classes. I didn't go see him, but I thought at the time that it was really out of the way for him to be.
That's how I wash my hair.
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