Top 10 Facts About Bob Ross

he may have been on the quiet side but this legendary painter led an incredible life welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 facts about Bob Ross people continually say I can't draw a straight line I don't have the talent Bob to do what you're doing that's a baloney before we begin we publish new content every day so be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos for this list we'll be looking at our favorite facts and anecdotes about TV painter Bob Ross who's mellow attitude and love of happy little trees turned him into one of the most beloved personalities on TV what would be the first thing you would say to somebody probably just a little landscape because nobody knows if a tree is incorrect if you put three eyes on there either you're Picasso or something's wrong number 10 he's an internet sensation some younger viewers may have been scratching their heads after seeing Deadpool sporting an afro wig in the first teaser for his second movie so let's take this opportunity to explain work that off you look good just be like it owes you money Bob Ross was the host of the joy of painting a PBS series where he taught viewers the joy of his art form with a now legendary mellow attitude and easy charm and maybe some little water lines here in the years since Ross's death he's become a bonafide internet phenomenon with a twitch stream of the show's entire run garnering millions of views in 2015 his show has also had huge success on Netflix which helped reintroduce him to a new generation and it'll just be our little secret and if you tell anyone that that Bush is there I will come to your house and I will cut you number 9 he was inspired by another TV painter while he was certainly a trailblazer Ross was actually inspired by a TV painting personality who came before him German painter bill Alexander isn't that fantastic being on that beautiful sand beach so let me show you how we would put that on this canvas before Ross rose to TV stardom Alexander was hosting the magic of oil painting a PBS show with a very similar style to the series Ross would later create see how nice it looks already Ross was first exposed to Alexander and his style of painting and presentation when he was working as a bartender in Alaska Ross later adopted much of Alexander's style when he started his own series while also adding in his own unique persona to the mix beach scene is finish you like it I thank you for watching me number eight he popularized a painting style called wet-on-wet one of the great things about watching painters like Ross and Alexander in action is how you can watch an entire painting be created from the first brushstroke to the last in just one sitting normally a painting with oil-based paint requires time and careful layering but Ross and his teacher used a different method one known alternately as a la prima or wet-on-wet technique so the first thing we're gonna do is get the canvas whipped this technique involves painting over a wet layer of white paint applied to the canvas in advance that assures that the magic whites nice and even all the way across the canvas the technique requires speed and discipline to get right but its ability to yield complete paintings in a short span of time is exactly what drew Ross to the style and will just sign that rascal number seven he almost never painted people watching his show Ross seems like one of the friendliest and most sociable people you could ever hope to meet but his paintings can tell a different story Ross's paintings almost never showed any sign of human activity and he avoided human figures entirely an analysis done of the paintings Ross created on the joy of painting revealed that only 22% of the finished works included man-made structures almost always small cabins maybe just there's a couple of windows over here there's one looks like two big guys looking at you another interesting detail is that these cabins rarely had chimneys which further minimizes the presence of human activity in Ross's paintings let's put a door right this that easy as friendly as he was Ross much preferred nature to people number six he loved animals another piece of evidence that Ross loved the natural world was his devotion to animals and they're just they're just little babies only a few days old wait oh look at that they are hungry too Ross was a lifelong animal lover rescuing injured or displaced woodland creatures as a child and helping to nurse them back to health so ever since I showed him on the program I just thought I'd show him one more time he is the cutest little devil and he lives with me and we have a good time together hey he continued to raise animals as an adult and a number of them made special appearances on his series either joining Ross in the studio or appearing via pre-recorded footage well they were all pretty adorable our favorite is definitely pea pod the pocket squirrel a baby squirrel who would hang out in Ross's shirt pocket we call him pea pod the pocket squirrel because he would live in your pocket forever pea pod made numerous appearances on the show and quickly became an audience favorite number five he was missing a finger on one hand one small detail that many viewers missed was that Ross was missing part of one of the fingers on his left hand specifically the tip of his left index finger which was lost during Ross's childhood when he was using a table saw with his father and after he goes asleep you can you can literally just pick him up look at that looks like like he's at the beach doesn't he it's a very easy detail to miss especially since the missing digit was often obscured by the paint palette that Ross would hold in his left hand however it is possible to spot the missing digit in a couple of episodes depending on the camera angle number four he would film a whole season in just two days you'd think that producing a television show takes a whole lot of work but Ross spent a surprisingly short amount of time on his TV series hello I'm Bob Ross and I'd like to welcome you to series 31 of the joy of painting rather than film a season of the joy of painting over the course of a year Ross would instead film the whole 13 episode season in just a couple of days over the course of a weekend he'd film each episode in his studio by banging out one painting after another just drop me Anna drop him it don't kill all the dark I know sometimes he gets feeling good it's hard to judge just how many paintings Ross produced especially since he would often create multiples of a given work but he once estimated that it was around 30,000 come on to a little paint thinner let's get a little SAP green number three his hair wasn't really curly and he hated his iconic perm hairdo Ross's afro haircut has become an indelible part of his legacy and image as recognizable as his blue work shirts and friendly smile but Ross wasn't the biggest fan of his do which he adopted as a cost-cutting measure before that Ross's hair was straight in order to save money on haircuts Ross had his hair permed leading to the iconic fro but when his business took off this wasn't as much of a concern but the look had become so linked with his brand and image that it made more sense to keep the perm even though Ross had grown to dislike his legendary locks over the years number two he was an Air Force drill sergeant with a reputation for yelling it's almost impossible to imagine the legendarily mellow painter raising his voice or acting in an angry or abrasive manner but before his career as a painter took off Ross made a living as an Air Force drill sergeant Ross described his time in the Air Force as requiring him to be mean all the time a demeanor he was more than happy to leave behind after he discovered painting while stationed in Alaska I spent half my life in the military and I used to come home take off my little soldier happen I don't my painters happen however his time spent in Alaska wasn't all bad as the state sublime landscapes often served as inspirations for his work on the show before we unveil our topic here are some honorable mentions and there's really no limit to what color any color will work as long as you use the basic methods but more little bushes right in here like so and we'll drop some reflections into the water number one he never made any money from his show you might think that the joy is painting had Ross laughing all the way to the happy little Bank but you'd be wrong over his lifetime Ross never made a penny from his PBS series and that's just how he liked it that might truly be the joy of painting who's the friends that you make doing that as we mentioned before the show took up very little of Ross's time and his main source of income was his painting supply business and art classes which the TV series helped to promote the only time that his show generated any kind of money was when he donated his paintings to charity or when PBS but I auction them off during fundraisers most of these paintings are donated to PBS stations across the country they auction them off and they make a happy buck with them do you agree with our picks check out these other great clips from WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos every day

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Length: 9min 21sec (561 seconds)

Published: Tue May 08 2018