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PT6A posted:I swear there was a lot of burnt ochre earlier too... Bob uses very few brush types. You can get away with the following: Fan brush 2 inch flat brush 1 inch oval Small, round brushes (quarter to half inch) Line brush (very small, point brush) Pentagonal palette knife (no real term for this, but they have five sides) Triangular palette knife He often has multiples of the same brushes as well so he doesn't have to clean as frequently. These are all basic tools, but the pentagonal palette knives are very handy for doing Bob-style mountains since they are great for dragging edges and rolls of paint across a canvas. What makes Bob's techniques work is that he works wet-on-wet. The canvases have light coats of wet transparent white, and he works by placing heavy colors first, thinner colors later. Instead of the canvas picking up on the paint and absorbing it, the paints on top of the white pre-coat are easier to blend. It's tough to master, because people tend to put way too much paint on and it turns into a mess real quickly. Work background to foreground, and don't be afraid to use knives. They're not just for mixing on your palette! Also, try to keep your paints marbled, mixing too consistently will kill the character. Dirty brushes can also be useful. I spent way too much time in artschool painting with both acrylics and oils, and I was never particularly good at it, but Bob's technique is just one of many for producing painting. Don't get frustrated if you don't make results like his right away. Hakkesshu posted:Bob Ross' official website has a bunch of starter kits with presumably the exact stuff you want. They're pretty pricey though It's nothing you can't find at AC Moore's or Dick Blick but there is something to be said for the convenience of getting everything you need selected for you.
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Nov 3, 2015 20:39
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I like having this show up on my second monitor. I'll glance at the start when he's slapping paint around, go focus on work for a few minutes, and suddenly there's a lovely little mountain scene in front of me 
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Nov 3, 2015 21:37
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Oh man, the chat is PRICELESS when the stream craps out. Lots of DDOS accusations, followed by sudden onset depression, then assertions that Twitch doesn't have problems, just happy little accidents. #FREEBOB
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Nov 3, 2015 22:18
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I imagine this could work well with The French Chef as well. It's a neat way to get people nostalgic about a show they watched when they were younger as well as exposing The Joy of Painting to people who haven't seen it before.
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Nov 3, 2015 22:22
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I'd seen bob ross in pictures (happy dude smiling in front of some landscape painting) so I knew who he was, but I'd never seen the Joy of Painting before and holy poo poo... this is the most peaceful, calming show ever. In fact, I was going through some heavy stuff earlier today and afterwards I turned on the stream, and it's hard to feel stressed or angry or upset watching him. Plus I'm in awe of how he'll throw some seemingly-random blotch onto the canvas and two minutes later he's turned it into something even better than before. Hence Twitch's RUINED/SAVED I guess. Sad that he's gone. It's weird - I'm feeling the loss twenty years later, but it's there.  Totally agree that there should just be a perpetual 24/7 marathon going so people can tune-in to watch some happy trees get painted.
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Nov 3, 2015 23:54
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dude789 posted:I imagine this could work well with The French Chef as well. It's a neat way to get people nostalgic about a show they watched when they were younger as well as exposing The Joy of Painting to people who haven't seen it before. I would be all over this. I remember seeing some Julia Child on PBS when I was a kid but I can't say I've seen more than 10 episodes probably
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Nov 3, 2015 23:58
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Once this marathon is over, if you have the ability to watch YouTube on your TV, subscribe to Bob Ross Painting, pick a playlist, and let it rip.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:09
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He has a pet squirrel in his jacket pocket. It is adorable.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:48
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Digital Jedi posted:He has a pet squirrel in his jacket packet. It is adorable. Bob Ross: Painted a bunch of really good landscapes, had a bomb rear end afro, also could talk to animals. Is there anything this man can't do 
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Nov 4, 2015 08:24
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Digital Jedi posted:He has a pet squirrel in his jacket pocket. It is adorable. A couple squirrels in his house, the one in the pocket. I like to imagine Bob in an afterlife like the one Robin Williams was in in What Dreams may Come.
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Nov 4, 2015 13:42
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LOOOOOL Steve is on right now and when he went to beat the devil out of a brush, he followed it up with, "So much for that pair of pants."
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Nov 4, 2015 23:18
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this is magical
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Nov 5, 2015 02:22
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Yeah, the Twitch chat has honestly made this whole marathon that much better, for once.
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Nov 5, 2015 03:28
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Chieves posted:Yeah, the Twitch chat has honestly made this whole marathon that much better, for once. It's probably the first time these kids have seen something that wasn't advertising a product or relentlessly negative or demanding some kind of call to action. There's no subliminal messaging or irony or reading between the lines, it's just earnest and honest. I hope it's genuine appreciation and not ironic appreciation because I'm old who doesn't understand these kids and their newfangled havewhatits, but who knows.
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Nov 5, 2015 04:45
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C. Everett Koop posted:I hope it's genuine appreciation and not ironic appreciation because I'm old who doesn't understand these kids and their newfangled havewhatits, but who knows. And super loving weird.
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Nov 5, 2015 06:39
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I've been meaning to try painting for a while now and this kind of had me eyeing it again. The only problem is that after watching Bob lay down trees and sky without even trying my first paintbrush stroke will immediately be the worst ever and also cause the canvas to burst into flames and burn down.
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Nov 5, 2015 08:02
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Chokes McGee posted:my first paintbrush stroke will immediately be
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Nov 5, 2015 10:21
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The last series, 27, just started. Get in on this while you can!
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Nov 6, 2015 01:05
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PotatoJudge posted:The last series, 27, just started. Get in on this while you can! There's actually 31, still two more days left.
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Nov 6, 2015 01:20
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X-O posted:There's actually 31, still two more days left. Unstickied? For shame.
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Nov 6, 2015 01:33
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X-O posted:There's actually 31, still two more days left. So happy to be wrong!
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Nov 6, 2015 01:47
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Squirrel time!
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Nov 6, 2015 05:19
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I just went out and bought oil paints and brushes. Going to make some happy clouds and accidents this weekend.
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Nov 6, 2015 06:39
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hcreight posted:This is overtaking Twitch at the moment, which is sure to piss off the moba crowd. hcreight posted:My one objection to this stream is the spazoid behavior of your average twitch chat room runs completely counter to what makes watching The Joy of Painting so wonderful. But, you can just make it fullscreen. hcreight posted:Considering the marathon is streaming on a website where you watch people play video games, doing an activity is probably a nonstarter for your average twitch streamer. Literally everything you have to say about Bob Ross is how much you hate Twitch and how much you hope one of the most chill streams of all time is pissing people off. That's some seriously depressive stuff. 
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Nov 6, 2015 07:07
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It would be hard to say that he's wrong, though.
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Nov 6, 2015 07:30
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I hope Twitch just loops this stream after it ends. They are doing a national service.
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Nov 6, 2015 13:29
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Escobarbarian posted:It would be hard to say that he's wrong, though. I've had chat open and sure it's twitch but they're enjoying it. They're just showing that the way twitch subculture expects people to
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Nov 6, 2015 13:39
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How successful was this show back in the day? Because thinking back to the 80s and 90s I get the feeling he would've snootily been considered a fairly unremarkable low-brow painter like a Thomas Kinkade or something. These days he would be a loving millionaire just because of how he displays his craft.
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Nov 6, 2015 13:47
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Popular enough for Bob to be a minor cultural entity, but the knock on Bob was that his paintings "always looked the same." Of course, if you watched the show for any period of time you'd know that while Bob has a consistent style, he never made the same painting twice. Art is full of snobs and people were certainly looking down on Bob creating "cookie cutter landscape painters." But Bob always said that his show was always a starting point; that you shouldn't copy, that you should always move on and create your own techniques.
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Nov 6, 2015 14:31
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Hakkesshu posted:These days he would be a loving millionaire just because of how he displays his craft. He was a millionaire back then, he was crazy stupid popular around the world. Still is. The thing you will never see watching the show is how shrewd and calculating a businessman he was. The Ur example being his afro. He was to put it mildly not fond of the afro, but he knew people loved it and it made him an iconic figure. So what does the man do? Wear a haircut he dislikes until the day he dies. He wasn't like some small town yokel that just happened to break out on PBS, he built a foundation so strong it still profits to this day. He made all his money from his paint supplies and his certified teachers and his books and his videos. Of which there was and is a metric fuckton of. Dude did what he loved and he made bank doing it. With that being said, he was still a bit of a goof that legitimately loved raising wounded animals in his free time and filming them frolicking and such. Not like he was a calculating sociopath and the Bob Ross you saw on screen wasn't real, he just slightly leans into it to entertain folks. He also did an entire season of the show in about two days, and he didn't make a dime off them. He donated all his pictures to PBS too. Free advertising for him, money for PBS to do cool things with. Bob Ross was a cool dude, but no man's fool.
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Nov 6, 2015 17:23
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I did wonder how much time it would take to shoot a season.
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Nov 6, 2015 17:54
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Elentor posted:Literally everything you have to say about Bob Ross is how much you hate Twitch and how much you hope one of the most chill streams of all time is pissing people off. That's some seriously depressive stuff. I'm glad this stream happened and even appreciate a lot of the stuff Twitch brings to the table. But fair point, I'll shut up about Twitch for the duration since this isn't the place to be complaining about it.
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Nov 6, 2015 18:54
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Final episode on now. 147k vieweers
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Nov 7, 2015 00:49
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I really hope Twitch do more stuff like this because this was extremely cool and chill. What other old shows had this kind of cultural resonance though? Edit: This is basically perfect. 
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Nov 7, 2015 01:00
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A countdown is on the stream until Monday.... What might it be?
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Nov 7, 2015 01:28
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175k people watching The Joy of Painting on a Friday night. They couldn't have known how popular something like this was going to be.
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Nov 7, 2015 01:32
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Harminoff posted:A countdown is on the stream until Monday.... The Joy of Painting II with Steve Ross. Get ready.
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Nov 7, 2015 01:37
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Pierson posted:I really hope Twitch do more stuff like this because this was extremely cool and chill. What other old shows had this kind of cultural resonance though? But yeah that was fantastic.
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Accordion Man posted:Bill Nye perhaps.
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