Comments on: Bob Ross

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:01:59 +0000

Yeah, great job James. Let me know if you do another. Would love to know if it is a fluke. I doubt it. The principles seem sound.

By: Jeremiah Daws

Jeremiah Daws — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:58:35 +0000

Thanks James. As a matter of fact, I haven’t. I discovered Oil painting is terribly messy. I don’t have a place to do it. I’m glad I tried it – I know it works – but I don’t really have a desire to paint right now. Maybe later on.

By: James

James — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:14:34 +0000

After taking a really good look at your picture I must add that your Mountains look really good. I found this one of the hardest parts to accomplish.

I have also found another painting I might attempt called “The Great One”, I think a lot of his mountain pictures look the same. I am not so keen on the snowy ones or the flowers etc..

Have you done any other paintings since this?

James

By: James

James — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:32:22 +0000

Hey Jeremiah,

Thanks for the post. It must have been about 4 years ago that I found myself watching Bob Ross on UK Living and I was totally amazed by how easy and quick Bob managed to do these paintings. With so little effeort and amazing results I had to try, I went out and bought myself a painting set but it was about £80 which was a little pricey but I had to give it a whirl.

I have only done one painting and I have photographed it and uploaded it below:

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/1706/dsc05614y.jpg

Now the painting took about 6 hours to complete and I think it is generally a success (I am no artist by any means). The problem though is that I haven’t attempted another painting since because a) I didn’t have the time and b) I am very worried that the first was a complete fluke and don’t want to do another one that doesn’t turn out as good.

But as you can see the results of mine and your paintings are pretty amazing considering I would find it challenging to draw a stick man without making a mistake.

I am going to give my Bob Ross painting set another attempt so am looking for some how too guides so far I have found –

http://www.bobross.com/howto3.cfm?type=Landscape&Page=MysticMountain

It looks like the painting you did was from the same set as mine.

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By: Jeremiah Daws

Jeremiah Daws — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:15:05 +0000

Cool. Definitely post a link to how your painting turns out. I’d love to see it. We can share tips.

By: calvin

calvin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:10:37 +0000

I just got a Bob Ross set for my birthday as well. I am older and dumber and have no artistic talent myself. I have been watching many of his shows myself your problem with the paint nor sticking was mentioned by Bob in one show I watched “thiner paint sticks to thicker paint” you may need to thin the color for the snow some. Now after i get my snow working I will be here posting that my snow did not work either lol

By: Jeremiah Daws

Jeremiah Daws — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:19:57 +0000

Yeah, keep trying Anne. You can do it!

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:56:26 +0000

Hi, you gave me hope again!!!
I did my first painting this afternoon and can confirm all what you went through, paint everywhere, taking ages to do what Boib does in seconds, putting some of the black of my mountain in my sea (arrrgghhh). Still decided to give it another go tomorrow, though !

By: Jeremiah Daws

Jeremiah Daws — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:39:39 +0000

I’ve seen him wipe the brush on a paper towel before going back into the paint – I think that might be a key to keeping the color from mixing too much. Thats something he doesn’t tell you to do. He also uses a little liquid white with his brighter colors – makes the paint thinner and sticks better. I’ll try that next time.

By: Hakan Karlsson

Hakan Karlsson — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:01:24 +0000

Hi. I just did my first Bob Ross painting today. (Same motiv as you did.) And I have much the same problems as you. I probably used to much color (liquid white and sky color) so when I tried to add the clouds then they immediately took up the blue paint and I could not make them stand out. Also agree that the snow is really hard and my bushes and trees also need a lot more practice. (I got a few bushes right so it is possible.) Glad to know I an not alone

By: Robert Lindsey

Robert Lindsey — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:17:57 +0000

My wife loves this guy. He’s so soothing to listen to, but she has never tried painting anything other than the walls.

By: Paul Berry

Paul Berry — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:37:43 +0000

I did not snicker! I might have given that impression indirectly, though. Seriously, if it gets you thinking visually and helps you to break down the construction of elements and spatial relationships, then go for it. Lookin’ good. I think you’d be surprised to see how much of this stuff you’re going to subconsciously incorporate into your filmmaking.

By: wayne

wayne — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:55:15 +0000

looks great!

By: bRaD

bRaD — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:56:57 +0000

Great post… enjoyed it immensely.

By: Aaron Blevins

Aaron Blevins — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:26:59 +0000

Good job bob. Painting is so much fun! I’ll have to look his videos up online.

P.S. I see you finally bought a new computer monitor…is it apple? I can’t tell.