I certainly made plenty of mistakes—er, happy accidents. But nothing John couldn’t help me blend away or cover with a bush or a tree or a drift of snow. I know it’s no masterpiece, but I’m pretty pleased with the way it turned out. I sort of surprised myself. I sort of want to try it again. Leopold, Todd (October 29, 2015). "Bob Ross Marathon Underway on Twitch". CNN . Retrieved October 30, 2015. a b c d e f Buchanan, Larry; Byrd, Aaron; DeSantis, Alicia; Rhyne, Emily (July 12, 2019). "Where Are All the Bob Ross Paintings? We Found Them". The New York Times . Retrieved July 12, 2019. a b c d e f g h i Ramsay, Alston (May 19, 2021). "Sex, Deceit, and Scandal: The Ugly War Over Bob Ross' Ghost". The Daily Beast . Retrieved May 22, 2021. John laid out nine gobs of paint, each a different color, in a semicircle on some butcher paper next to my easel. This was to be my palette. I recognized the names of the colors from hearing Ross say them on the show: Alizarin Crimson, Van Dyke Brown, Yellow Ochre. John explained how to spread the paint out and tap it onto the end of the brush’s bristles.

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There Is A Bob Ross Chia Pet And I Am Crying Happy Little Tears". BuzzFeed . Retrieved November 26, 2017. Of course, the main draw, whether you were painting along at home or not, was Ross himself: that alfalfa-sprout helmet of hair, that gentle sea breeze of a voice, that Buddha-like calm. “We don’t make mistakes—we have happy accidents,” he’d say, nudging us toward our better selves. Like Mr. Rogers, another low-key pastor in the church of public television, Ross came off as wise, warm, and a little too pure for this world. He died in 1995, of lymphoma, but his afterlife has been busy: immortalized in the lo-fi-eighties limbo of our collective memory, he’s become an Internet meme, a satirical touchstone (“ Family Guy,” “ Deadpool”), and a whispery god of A.S.M.R. In 2015, the entirety of “The Joy of Painting” streamed on Twitch, a year after FiveThirtyEight analyzed each of the series’ episodes and calculated, among other facts that just feel good to know, that fifty-six per cent of Ross’s televised paintings feature a deciduous tree. Stanley, Alessandra (December 22, 1991). "Bob Ross, the Frugal Gourmet of Painting". The New York Times . Retrieved January 31, 2020. And the other thing is that when the documentary said that Uncle Jimmie [Bob Ross’s brother, who held the controlling interest in his estate during the first settlement] was afraid to participate in the documentary, he called me, maybe two days after the documentary came out, and he said, “Joan, I have to tell you I never told anybody that I was afraid to participate in the documentary.” He said, “I just don’t…”— and he’s told me this before—he doesn’t do interviews. He doesn’t talk about his brother. He certainly does not talk about his dealings with Steve in the sort of caretaker position that he had. He’s just always been very private like that. But he felt he needed to call me and tell me that is just not true. Artist and art critic Mira Schor compared Ross to Fred Rogers, host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, noting that Ross's soft voice and the slow pace of his speech were similar. [15]Totilo, Stephan. "Video game based on bob ross' 'joy of painting' in the works". MTV . Retrieved September 9, 2017. Gholz, Sophia (September 7, 2021). Hachette Book Group: This Is Your World The Story of Bob Ross. Running Press. ISBN 9780762473564.

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Stanley, A. (December 22, 1991). Bob Ross, the Frugal Gourmet of Painting. New York Times archive. Retrieved December 24, 2015. I would say that mostly the anxiety over how Steve is feeling is probably the thing that I would want to most solve by telling people that he’s not been left behind at all. His father, I think, left a lot to him. There are lots of things that were satisfactory to him during the settlement after the appeal. You win the game by being the first person to hit maximum Chill. The whole game is pitched towards Bob Ross’ ambience of tranquillity and peace. Each painting card has got features on it that are recognisable from Ross’ TV show, such as, Fluffy Clouds and Happy Little Trees. If you want to paint with Bob Ross, you need to be chill, so whoever reaches maximum chill first in Bob Ross: Art of Chill Game wins. Bob Ross using a large paintbrush to touch up one of his large seascapes in his studio at home (Photo by Acey Harper / The LIFE Images Collection via Getty)In 1982, a station in Falls Church, Virginia aired a taping of his art class as a pilot, and 60 PBS stations signed up for the show in the first year. [11] In 1983, PBS station WIPB lured him to Muncie, Indiana with the promise of creative freedom, and he found a kinship with the staff. He moved home to Florida in 1989 but continued to travel to Muncie every three months to tape the show. Ross said he did the show for free and made his income from how-to books, videotapes and art supplies. [14] [11]