Bob Ross Painting Series.

# 1 | 6/9/24:

I'm interested in seeing if painting can get easier just by doing some bob ross stuff. So I'm starting with one painting at a time trying my best to copy Bob Ross until Feel like it's stealing then I change it.  This is the first shot from season 29 episode 1. I took the original elements but went my own way once we got the mountain in. "Island In The Wilderness" he called it. Bob did his in 30 minutes or less, I had to pause Several times to catch up and hit the techniques. I also had to paint in more mountains and background after making the trees the first time, so about 4 hours of redoing and fixing. Let's see if next time I can make the painting without the corrective phase.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLWEXRAnQd0&t=61s

"Island In The Wilderness"

What I'm learning is that Bob paint's like he's developing a photoshop or premiere file. he's got a very "This this then that" Approach, but never skips past the sections, like distance. He aits till he's happy with the entire "Zone" or layer before moving to the next, and in this the imperfections, if any, can simply be covered up. Out of all of his techniques I learned, I know this is key, and essential in many other methods of life.

On 6/14 I bought some knives for painting mountains. I didn't want to use a canvas so I just used some gloss paper and did my best to make some mountains, I figured they'd make more sense if I add stuff so I spent a little time adding blue and clouds, green and trees then finished the mountain around that. I made a shore line and swashed the water. then added same stupid doodles and gave up. I'm only putting it up for the sake of progress, I used this paper itself as the palette, putting the paint where i knew it would be  most dense. Just something for fun and practice.

6/16/25 This is a Quick test of Skill to see If I can bring my own scene to life in Bob's Style. 

Cornerstone Park - The Stage