Bob Ross was happy. His trees were happy. His mountains were happy. His ponds were happy. His squirrels were frickin’ ecstatic! I loved watching Bob Ross, because there could have been a nuclear war going on and he would have said: “Now, you want your mushroom cloud to just flow from the brush. Just push that radiation out those bristles. Now you’ve got a happy cloud. Next we are going to make some happy fallout.”
In 30 minutes Bob could paint you a masterpiece, convince you that YOU could paint it too, and still have time to remind you how happy he and everything else in the entire universe was. All kidding aside, he really was a great artist and person. I say he was great, not so much for his work specifically, but because he motivated so many people to just get out there and try painting (or any other art). He was also a great humanitarian, he did not charge the PBS network one cent for any of his shows (he made his zillions on the videotapes and art supplies) and he also donated each painting he did on TV to a PBS station so they could sell it and raise funds. Even today, if I see Joy of Painting on the TV Guide, I’ll flip over to it to see some happy trees.
And remember: “We don't have mistakes here, we just have happy accidents, sniffing paint thinner.” (slightly modified quote from Bob Ross).
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