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why can't we have more famous people like Bob Ross and Fred Rogers? I say famous people because there are many kind, good people out there like them, but these days, they're never really that visible
#bobross #fredrogers #famous #good #positive #quotes #quote #motivation
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Meine Eltern haben Kind 2 (10) zu Weihnachten eine Staffelei geschenkt. Gestern saß sie dann mit #bobross dran und hat gemalt. Am Ende sah es dann aber trotzdem nicht so aus...
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There's an original Bob Ross painting up for auction, proceeds to benefit American Public Television.
US$20-40K/£15-30K.Not within my budget, but nice to see his originals are still circulating.
https://www.bonhams.com/auction/31906/lot/76/bob-ross-1942-1995-ebb-tide-24-x-18-in-painted-in-1990/
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Something calming for a change.
"So, as a humble tribute to the greatest of all, I thought I would try and bring one of [Bob Ross'] paintings into life, including an actual river with actual water."
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Delicious #FanartFriday with #BobRoss Belcher
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What if Bob Ross was a serial killer and his paintings are secretly the locations where he hid the bodies?
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“Gotta have opposites, light and dark and dark and light, in painting. It’s like in life. Gotta have a little sadness once in awhile so you know when the good times come.”…
Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting ran on PBS (and the CBC) from 1983 to 1994. Reruns continue around the world, including the non-commercial digital subchannel network Create and the streaming service Hulu. As part of its launch of Twitch Creative, Twitch streamed every episode over a nine-day period starting on October 29, 2015 – what would have been Ross’s 73rd birthday– and scored 5.6 million viewers. So they created a weekly rebroadcast of all 31 seasons of The Joy of Painting to air, with episodes in order, on Twitch each Monday from November 2015 onward, and a marathon of episodes each October 29. In the United Kingdom, the BBC re-ran episodes during the COVID-19 pandemic while most viewers were in lockdown at home.
Ross is estimated to have pained 30,000 canvases during his lifetime. But as those paintings are scarce on the art market, sale prices of the paintings average in the thousands of dollars and frequently topping $10,000. Lately, they’ve done even better– and for an important cause.
Starting last November, auction house Bonhams has been offering what will be a total of 30 Ross oils to benefit the public broadcasting system that made him famous…
Bob Ross’s Babbling Brook (1993)Bonhams has revealed the next works by the beloved US television painter Bob Ross it will offer for sale, with auction proceeds going toward public television following devastating funding cuts by president Donald Trump’s administration. More than $1bn in federal funding previously allocated to support public broadcasters was slashed by the Republican-controlled congress last year.
Last year, Bonhams announced it would sell 30 Ross paintings donated by Bob Ross Inc to benefit public television. The first three paintings from the group went up for sale in November and fetched a combined total of $662,000 with fees. Ross’s painting Winter’s Peace (1993) sold for $318,000 with fees, setting an auction record for the artist. Just weeks later, that record was shattered again when his painting Cabin at Sunset (1987) sold for more than $1m in an online charity auction for the Public Media Bridge Fund initiative [see here], organised by the television host John Oliver. [One more reason to love John Oliver.]
Three more Ross paintings will be part of the “Americana: Crafting a Nation: Art, History & Legacy” auction on 27 January at Bonhams in Massachusetts, and could fetch as much as $155,000 collectively, according to the auction house’s estimates.
Valley View (1990) is estimated to sell for between $30,000 and $50,000, and was the first work completed for the 21st volume of Ross’s Joy of Painting instructional book. Change of Seasons (1990) comes with an estimate of $40,000 to $60,000, and was completed live on air in 1990, on the 11th episode of the 20th season of his The Joy of Painting television series. In that episode, Ross describes the scene as “just a beautiful little painting”.
Babbling Brook (1993), a unique oval-shaped painting, is estimated to fetch between $25,000 and $45,000. It was completed during filming for the first episode of the 30th season of The Joy of Painting. Ross often let the subject in his landscapes develop as he went along, encouraging viewers to add spontaneous details as they saw fit. While painting Babbling Brook, Ross said, “I see something!” and painted in a waterfall, adding: “Let your imagination take you to any world that you want to go to.”
An additional 24 Ross works will be sold throughout this year across Bonhams salesrooms in New York, Boston and Los Angeles, the auction house says…
Giving back: “More Bob Ross paintings head to auction to benefit US public television” from @theartnewspaper.bsky.social.
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As we “don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents,” we might note that Ross’ rough contemporary and fellow “popular” painter, Thomas Kinkade was born on this date in 1958. While Ross was concerned with communicating the joy of creating and was opposed to his paintings becoming “financial instruments,” Kinkade was focused on capitalizing on his creations.
Kinkade, who described himself as a “master of light” (putting himself in the company of Rembrandt and Caravaggio), achieved success during his lifetime via the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products through the Thomas Kinkade Company (according to which, at one point one in every 20 American homes owned a copy of one of his paintings).
Ross died in 1995 of complications from lymphoma (which he’d had for several years). KInkade died in 2012 of acute intoxication from alcohol and diazepam.
Thomas Kinkade “Bambi’s First Year” (source)“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that”
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day
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When Bob Ross paints his black canvases, he starts with a coat of black acrylic, lets it dry, and then lays a layer of oil in a transparent color over that. So the background looks black, but lighter colors will mix with the wet oil paint to create colorful light. For my first try in gouache from a few days ago (S1-E3), I used black gouache for my base and then a gouache magenta over that. Unfortunately, when I added more layers, they mixed with the black #gouache in a way I didn’t like because black can make paint colors muddy and lifeless.
For this #painting, I started with a thin coat of lamp black and furnace black watercolor paint. This mix of black pigments is very staining. It’s literally black soot made into #watercolor paint. A thick of a coat of these pigments can get sticky and shiny, but a thin coat will sink into the paper and stay there, which is why I only used a thin coat to get to middle gray. After it dried, my next coat was another watercolor mix of Prussian blue and Vandyke brown, the colors that Bob suggested. With this second coat dried, the paper looked pretty black. When I started building up the lighter layers, the white mixed with the more colorful blue-brown instead of the lifeless black, but not too much. Happily, I got the effect I was going for.
I’ve been trying to find a good quote from Bob in each episode. Usually, they’re quite motivational, but this one surprised me. “Maybe there was an old trapper that lived out here, and one day he went to check his beaver traps, and maybe he fell into the river and drowned. But his old cabin is still here. So let’s draw an old cabin.”
After Bob Ross,
season 1, episode 6, Winter Moon
Gouache on cotton paper, 4.5”
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I decided that I need to do more of Bob Ross’ #painting tutorials. I’ve been meaning to start painting again anyway, and I’m sure his instructions will help me loosen up a bit. I figured I’d start at the beginning with season 1, episode 1. He has 405 episodes in all, all for free on YouTube. So even if I did one per day, it would take more than a year to finish them all. (I doubt I’ll be doing that, but we’ll see how far I get.) My painting set up is different from Bob’s who works with 8 colors of oil on canvas. I’m working in gouache on cotton paper, small with a limited five-color primary palette (magenta, cyan, yellow, white, and black). This painting is just 4.5” (11.4 cm) across. Bob’s videos are a half hour, but he goes really fast. So I was able to complete the whole painting in about an hour. If anyone wants to join along, tag with me #BobRoss.
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John Oliver raised $1.5 million for public media by auctioning off the wildest TV props
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/john-oliver-auction-public-media
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‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’ Auction Raises More Than $1.5 Million for Public Broadcasting, Including New Record for a Bob Ross Painting
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For no particular reason I now have about half of The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross in my media collection.
I think watching Bob paint some happy little trees is exactly what I need lately.
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Discover the calm wisdom of Bob Ross like never before with BobRossQuotes—a simple command-line tool that shares 48 inspiring quotes from the legendary painter, accompanied by an ASCII art of Bob himself! 🎨✨ Perfect for Linux lovers and art fans alike. Explore more: https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-candy-bobrossquotes-collection-quotes/2/ #BobRoss #LinuxCandy #Quotes
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Drie originele schilderijen van de iconische televisieschilder Bob Ross worden geveild. De opbrengst komt ten goede aan de publieke televisiestations in de Verenigde Staten. Dat melden Amerikaanse media. Eerder dit jaar zette president Trump de financiering voor Amerikaanse publieke...
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“More than 30 years after his death, the work of artist and public television icon #BobRoss continues to engage audiences across the world. When Congress rescinded $1.1 billion allocated for public broadcasting, Bob Ross Inc. saw an opportunity to help fill some of the funding shortfall by auctioning 30 of his paintings.”
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Bob Ross'd overnight
Winter's powder-puff visit
Happy little trees#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Seasons #Autumn #Fall #Winter #BobRoss #HappyLittleTree #Painting #Picture #Nature #Ohio #Akron #USA #Photography
November 10, 2025 -
This guy is doing the rounds. Quite funny (very, actually). Joe Nunnink is funnay.
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Prompt 18 is #Tree. So here is a stick figure rendition of #BobRoss drawing one of his happy little trees. #Cosytober2025 #art
