Bob Ross

Robert Norman "Bob" Ross ( born October 29, 1942 in Daytona Beach, Florida; † July 4, 1995 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida ) was an American painter and television presenter.

Life

Hoping to see the wide world, Ross undertook at the age of 17 years for two decades for the service in the Air Force, which he finished in 1981.

Bob Ross died in 1995 at the age of 52 years with malignant lymphoma ( lymph node cancer ).

Technique

On the basis of do-it -yourself methods, such as by Bill Alexander, Ross developed his own technique, a special wet-on- wet painting, with which he produced fewer colors and tools landscape images using.

1981 Ross went with this new technique on tour in the U.S. before he presented in his own television show The Joy of Painting from 1983. Through this program he came to international fame, and helped the wet-on -wet method more Verbreitung.Seitdem be its own company (Bob Ross Inc.) sells textbooks and videos, as well as Bob Ross painting sets among others. Who wants to officially teach this method of painting for landscapes, must be trained to the CRI (Certified Ross Instructor ). There are also certificates for flower painting ( CRFI ), Wild Animals ( CRWI ) and portraits ( CRPI ). However, the latter are further developments of techniques other people. The technique of flower painting goes back to, for example Annette Kowalski, a companion of Bob Ross, who now undertakes the Bob Ross Inc..

The Joy of Painting

The Joy of Painting is a moderated by Bob Ross painting course in TV - 403 parts ( 31 seasons à 13 episodes with each 27 minutes of airtime ). The sequences in which Ross always in the same manner presents his painting technique, have names like New Day 's Dawn or Quiet Mountain Lake. He tries as possible to encourage a calm and gentle voice the viewer to override it with the brush and paint their own personal world in which everything is allowed and nothing could be wrong. In the commentary of the work processes he uses recurring set of building blocks, such as "We do not make mistakes here, just happy little accidents " when the brush slips, and "beat the devil out of it" during dry shake a paint brush, or " Everyone needs a friend " when a lone tree gets a second added painted. Further phrases often used are "a happy little cloud did live performance right here " or "god having a good day making alaska " and "what the heck" and "the good old two inch brush". His personal trademark was his Minipli.