The Joy of Painting
The Joy of Painting (English about: the joy of painting ) is a moderated by artist Bob Ross painting course in TV - 403 parts ( 31 seasons with 13 episodes). In each episode Ross ever painted a picture in oil paints with his wet-on- wet technique. The individual consequences bear the name of the painting to painting, about New Day 's Dawn or Quiet Mountain Lake, respectively.
The end of a sequence
At the beginning of a program, the presenter welcomes the audience always with the words "Hi, welcome back! " (Eng. about " Hello welcome back " ) added to " Certainly I'm glad you Could join us today! " (Eng. about " I am glad that you / your back can " ) be there today. While the moderator briefly outlining what is to be painted for a motive in the respective sequence and how it has possibly already prepared the canvas, the viewer will be the ( name of) the colors appear, it needs to by or mitmalen of days the subject. While the moderator brings the motif with oil paints in his special wet-on- wet technique to the canvas, he explains to viewers with a quiet, gentle voice as they can paint the motif of the day itself. 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. In addition to his voice and style of painting personal trademark of the moderator Bob Ross is its distinctive Minipli. When the image is ready painted, the moderator approves the audience at the end of each mission always with the phrase "From all of us here: We wish you happy painting and God bless, my friend" (Eng. about " From all of us here We wish you / you happy painting, and God bless you, my friends! ").
Success
The show was broadcast internationally in many countries, including Germany. When broadcast in Germany, the English original of the moderator is not synchronized and not translated by subtitles. Due to their continued popularity of the show is still regular, continuous since 2001, repeatedly. On German television currently on the channel BR alpha, which broadcast rights has been secured until at least 2013. In this case, only the scales are shown 15 to 31 ( from the years 1988 to 1993), because the first 14 seasons of the years 1983-1987 are considered unsendbar due to very poor image quality. Nevertheless, can be found on online video platforms such as Youtube Follow this quite early seasons in good quality.
The show and its host have now a certain cult status, especially among students achieved, of which around 25,000 have teamed up in various online fan groups in social networks.
Home video release
The program is marketed by Bob Ross Inc. on DVD. The items are not sorted by seasons, but according to painting motives for example "Waterfalls Collection" or " Seascape Collection".
A German DVD release has been announced for October 2013, and includes all 13 episodes of the likely produced from the 1986 10 season. In this publication, especially a German language version was created.