I think Bob Ross's biggest contribution to painting was teaching people how to use their tools effectively. His paintings and their derivatives are never terribly realistic or dynamic, but they always have this pleasing physicality to them, because he's been using his brushes and sponges and palette knives to pull off various clever texture tricks, and teaching others to do the same. I feel like that kind of technical focus is often overlooked in visual art education, where expression and relatively freeform practice take precedence. Instead of saying "Go do 500 paintings and see what you learned after" Bob said "Here's a cool thing you can learn right now to make trees look good" and got people excited about painting.
Anyway, solid Bob-style painting, OP. You nailed the technique.
llamas4mamas on September 10th, 2017 at 16:14 UTC »
Those are some nice happy trees you got there.
He'd be proud.
SnakeDelgado on September 10th, 2017 at 17:10 UTC »
Blending a yellow sky into a blue sky without making a green sky is very difficult. Just want to point that out for everyone.
Explodian on September 10th, 2017 at 18:18 UTC »
I think Bob Ross's biggest contribution to painting was teaching people how to use their tools effectively. His paintings and their derivatives are never terribly realistic or dynamic, but they always have this pleasing physicality to them, because he's been using his brushes and sponges and palette knives to pull off various clever texture tricks, and teaching others to do the same. I feel like that kind of technical focus is often overlooked in visual art education, where expression and relatively freeform practice take precedence. Instead of saying "Go do 500 paintings and see what you learned after" Bob said "Here's a cool thing you can learn right now to make trees look good" and got people excited about painting.
Anyway, solid Bob-style painting, OP. You nailed the technique.