Bob Ross Inspired Happy Accidents Volume 1

[VirtualPaul123]

Very nice. I always loved to watch Bob Ross. I could forget about the troubles of life for 30 minutes while enjoying his calming voice.

[MsRocketman123]

my mommy says i was a happy accident

[TheElectricRider]

For those who can't see any accidents - They got fixed in the making of the painting. That's why the Wet on Wet technique rules the day. You can mess up, sometimes badly and with the ability to paint wet paint over wet paint, almost all of your mistakes are fixable. I can't draw a lick but after learning from Bob Ross's basic and master painting kits I too can paint and so can you! Bill Alexander is also a guru of the wet on wet technique. I encourage anyone to check these guys out. Google them.

[davitubo]

where are the accidents????

[abiminzay]

fucking justin bieber jajajajajajajaj up all the finger

[artistfedotov]

Б. Р. самый тупой художник современности....

[Numira]

i cant see any accidents!!!

[kimmcculley]

I love your paintings, you truly have a talent and are very blessed.

[MoveOverCasanova]

how to make a living of art without having any hint of imagination and creativity

[07ude]

these arent mistakes, they are scary good

[superfriezz85]

what kind of oil do you use for painting??

[MrTarzan17]

super

[pbuotte]

what hath bob ross wrought? arrrghhh from bad to worse....

[TruthSurge]

@pbuotte Here's what he wrought.

watch?v=MmtYy5lNVZU

Now, if you can paint like this or better, let me know and I'll personally come take lessons from you. Until then, shut up.

[chadd01971]

@TruthSurge From Stripes, "Lighten up, Francis". If the intent was to make a perfect replication of the real world, they could have taken a photo. Your points have merit and maybe the artist will take that into consideration, but please don't lecture anyone about physics when we are talking about a artist's interpretation!

[TruthSurge]

@chadd01971 You either want to learn how to get better or you don't. Pearls, swine, I should have learned long ago that 99% of people don't appreciate your pearls.

[Otacon144]

I think Bob would be tickled to see these paintings.

And those certainly are some happy trees. :)

[Psytheslasher]

You found Bob on youtube??

Watch more t.v.

[indoormusic]

ive never heard Beethovens 9th so slow

[huntersblade2000]

Great job! :) Don't stop painting, yo!

[ZombieOwen23]

R.I.P. Bob

[2PacShakurMakaveli7]

GOOD JOB BOY

[MikeChambers1001]

Looks like you've got an up and coming artist there !

[genevincent89]

Great job! I always want to paint with Bob Ross whenever he's on, but I'm never prepared when the Joy of Painting comes on tv.

[elmaschingon142006]

dude why dont u buy his dvd set i sure as hell did and am glad i bought it.

[hettybobcat]

Those are wonderful beginner paintings. I read Truth Surge's comments and that person is very right and I'm glad you were willing to take his good advice. But my main comment is on your 6 year old. Amazing! My husband and I are very supportive of our 2 year old's artistic development. I'd like to see her at that level when she turns 6!! Good job, all of you!

[MrArmadillo]

at this rate, beethoven's 9th would take 3 hours

[Georgiahulse]

I personally think they're full of beauty and majesty - the type I could stand and admire all day. He's also such a lovely man our Bob.

[RyhthmDefined]

las10plagas, I might understand the way you see it. You would rather see paintings that are unproportional, and not something that you would see everyday. But the style of Bob Ross is the capture the true beautry of nature. Realistic paintings don't really need that much imagination to make, just references of our world. Each style has their own appeals. Just search for it in each.

[InSaneTK]

Las10plagas, you are a disgrace to all forms of art and artists of the world. I wish you good luck in coming out of that close minded and narrow perception of art you are in.

[las10plagas]

whoa, I must have been stoned or something ... but no ... bob ross is still cool and his paintings look pretty realistic but I still don't like those landscapes ....

and remember :

a good artist should always take stick.

[InSaneTK]

I love his paintings not for realism, but for the calmness they have. So harmonious colors which kinda reflects Bob Ross way of being expressed through his art.

[HoshiChun]

very nice work for a 6 year old, she is talented. I do hope your still pushing her to keep moving foward in her talents. She will be even more amazing the older she gets.

[TruthSurge]

good start. Now, apply some knowledge of physics to them. Things far away are less saturated (color is not as intense. instead of bright strong green add a touch of gray or blue gray to it). Things have less contrast when farther away. Things are often bluer too. And brighter in general.

That's my 2 cents. Add depth by varying the saturation, brightness and contrast.

[lynnetelfer]

thank you

your two cents is worth twenty thousand to me! I will look into this further..I would like to add depth..

[TruthSurge]

thanks. If you can ever find time to experiment with it and sort of woodshed and get the concepts ingrained into your brain, it will stay with you the rest of your life and your art will be the better for it. No more flat skies that seem to be more like a drapery hanging down just behind the mountains. etc. :)

[jophus82]

@TruthSurge I understand what you've said was helpful, which is awesome that you put that out into the world. You should approach conversations with people you don't know with a little less hubris though. Otherwise, someone like me is going to come along and say something like, 'what you are talking about has absolutely nothing to do with physics. What you've just decided to write about is perception and it has to do with the physiology of the observer.'

[TruthSurge]

@jophus82 It has everything to do with physics. Do you understand that the debris and water molecules in the air can cause things at a very far distance to become LIGHTER and BLUER? Why in the hell do you think they do that? PHYSICAL particles in the air are MODIFYING what you see by BLOCKING and FILTERING. It's PHYSICS. Don't come here lecturing me about HUBRIS! hahahaha oh the irony here is priceless. How many paintings do you have in museums?

[TruthSurge]

@jophus82 So, Mr. Smarty, are you going to claim that light refraction isn't a study of physics? Are you going to try and sell this idea that color isn't a study of physics? Do you have the first clue about what MAKES something red instead of blue? It's not my perception of it, I'll tell you that. I'll give you a tiny hint: it's the SPEED at which light waves oscillate! WOW! Imagine that. Something PHYSICAL causing color. Who would have guessed?

[jophus82]

@TruthSurge I stand partially corrected. You're an asshole who is partially correct.

[TruthSurge]

@jophus82 You're the asshole, buddy. I gave this artist free advice that's accurate and I didn't have to take my time to do that and you come in with a chip on your shoulder attacking me. YOU'RE the asshole. Again, the irony is that you attacked me accusing me of pride, arrogance, etc. just because I was direct in my statements. Then you go on to threaten me that guys like you might correct my ignorance. That to me is the heart of arrogance. I help others, unlike you.

[TruthSurge]

@jophus82 From wikipedia:

"More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the world and universe behave."

Ooops! I have so much hubris and lack of understanding. Please, teach me, oh great jophus82!

[Kriegsarschmann]

@TruthSurge I have to disagree with you about brightness. During clear daylight, yes, but during dusk, dawn and at night the brightness is inverse. I find it especially hard to do the ray patterns of artificial light or moonlight because the brightness is all radiating from a fixed point. With artificial light, there's degradation in the amount of light and it's highly confusing.

Dusk is just plain confusing, so is dawn. Clouds glow and the shadows are funny and everything has a red tint. :/

[TruthSurge]

@Kriegsarschmann In general.... there are always exceptions. Contrast dictates that you have at least SOME change in brightness to make it look appealing. ie, if your horizon is brighter, and your foreground darker, cool. If they are the same, it may be realistic but not very pleasing to look at. ? so, in general, a landscape is going to have more contrast up close and less far away and brighter in the sky (sans tornado storm) etc. IOW, most of the time you see these phenomena.

[TruthSurge]

@Kriegsarschmann but yes, there are exceptions as you said.  my 2 cents.... take it for what you think it's worth. Of the three properties of a painting (value/contrast, color, shape) value/contrast is probably the most important. Shape only trumps that in the sense that realism demands fidelity to shapes. get the nose out of place and you ruin the portrait. Getting your values right is critical, IMO. color, not so much. just my take!

[Kriegsarschmann]

@TruthSurge Agreed on most points, and don't get me wrong I do appreciate you giving advice. As I'm heading out shortly, I'll reply quickly (so forgive me for errors) but I have one disagreement related to the foreground vs background brightness. A bright horizon can have it's appeal, especially if the foreground is essentially the ancillary prop the background usually serves as. You could have a brilliant display of colors in the clouds and atmosphere and make it look realistic and wonderful.

[TruthSurge]

@Kriegsarschmann I agree. The sky could be bright with darker landscape. there's your contrast. or... dark and stormy with some lighter foreground. but what I'm saying is that in general, i think you'll see more bright skies and darker lands/seas than the other. but either way, there are rules of composition that, if followed to a degree, can improve a painting. And I was just throwing out some general observations. White tends to come forward, black recede. blue = cool, red = warm.

[TruthSurge]

@Kriegsarschmann so, in these paintings, I saw a general flatness or perhaps lack of subtlety and far too much contrast in some of the mountains which made them look like they were 100 feet away instead of several miles. clouds staying the same shape instead of becoming more elongated near the horizon. etc. I used to do these exact style paintings and I did the same things. I've got 2 old paintings that are just dreadful. my mom thinks they're great. hahaha

[Kriegsarschmann]

@TruthSurge Yeah, I totally understand what you're saying. It doesn't matter who we are, we can always improve ourselves in whatever we do. Sure there's limits but how close one is to them is just a mystery to anyone, really. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. General observations can often go further than deep, detailed ones because of the ease in understanding. Oh, and I'm sure your mom thinks anything you paint is great. That's just how mothers are! That's how mine is too. :P

[TruthSurge]

@Kriegsarschmann well, when I bring one over and force it down their throats they say it's great. They never really got behind my artistic endeavors. I should have played guitar for a living but noooo, mom wouldn't have it.  anyway, I've got some paintings uploaded on YT on this and my teesbytruthsurge channel. Mostly not oils or landscapes. just odd things. portraits. some fantasy. etc. taker easy!

[Kriegsarschmann]

@TruthSurge They're still proud of you deep down, just how it is. Even those parents who don't seem like it, they still do. You know, it's not too late to take up guitar. I'll look at your paintings eventually, I've been busy though so might be awhile. You take care, though. :)

[TruthSurge]

@Kriegsarschmann I played guitar off and on since 1974 and some professionally. When I could. I just tinker now due to finger injuries. Take care and if you check out my stuff, give me a holler.

[Sierra358]

holy crap those are amazing! =D hmm..maybe i should try it lol

[homeostasis4me]

your 6yo is more talented than I am....

[dthuleen]

lynnetelfer, can you tell me who is conducting on this recording of Beethoven's 9th Symphony? I've never heard it taken so slowly, and I wouldn't have thought it would work, but it does. Thanks in advance.

[LAZrailkapinda]

The music is AWFUL I CAN'T STAND IT.

[lynnetelfer]

lmao!

[Flayer77]

I love this music.

[grenworthshero]

Why Beethoven?

[OctemberSun]

Very good paintings!

Lol. And, your daughter can paint better than I can!

Bob Ross is really an art genius. :P I'm training to be, I hope an art director, or really anything concerning art.

You've really got a gift. :)

[CornerMan7]

Guys - I'm a big Bob Ross fan. I tape his show every day on WMFE (Channel 15 down here in Daytona), and I've gotta say that you've taken his technique and made it your own. Aftre viewing so many episodes, I'm used to seeing his finished product. Your paintings have elements of his style, with a kind of surreal added twist. I like 'em, and I'd hang 'em on my walls any day - Cornerman7

[TheSilencer44]

Bob Ross, was and still is the master of wet on wet painting.

Loved his work and loved his show.

Watched the re-runs on SKY TV and even if I'd seen them, I would watch them again.

It is always a pleasure to watch them again and again.

[Jdawg0492]

It was either him or his teacher Bill alexander who where the masters of wet on wet

[PowerAndPerception]

Beautiful paintings.

Bob Ross is a legend. He taught me more painting skills than my art teachers ever did. I'm sorry I never had the honor of meeting the man.

[zenmonk420]

just wanted to say please, PLEASE if that was by your 6 year old daughter, keep encouraging her to paint you might be raising a virtuoso.

and just curious, was that the 9th by Beethoven playing in the background?

[20Freddie12]

@zenmonk420

Not the 9th.

[broderrodents]

@zenmonk420 It was Beethovens first movement to his 9th Symphony.

[artemispap9]

Painting from your heart...that counts

Keep painting and give your colours to your world....and don't forget the happy trees...

[Arvestotia]

I have NO talent, even with the Bob Ross Training...They said i have no talent at all. But yours Look Greate!!!

Awsome!

[thecybercat]

Very nicely done. These are excellent, especially for your first ones, do keep it up!

[yazan28]

great for u u are great painter wish u best

yazan amman jordan middleeast

[lynnetelfer]

thank you!

[rodspacer]

Really great, Lynn...

Keep on praticising, you and your daughter!

God bless all!

[wotchadave]

The classic thing about bob ross was that he always painted a big ol' tree lol. Like, right in the middle of the foreground of his paintings, just used to capture about half the canvas with it xD - RIP Bob

[djcchs2004]

Good paintings, including your 6 years old.

[coofiny]

WOW!!.. i never was fond of painting myself, but if your family was able to paint that well from Bob's lessons alone, I'm extremely impressed at how well his teachings have come across.

nice works!

[THEYESPINKKING]

People of the world: there's just one thing we are sure: BOB ROSS RULES!

[bobross95]

Hey! Happy little accident or what! Bob always said ".... this is your world"

He'd be proud of you

If there was a Bob Ross flag, I'd fly it soooo high.

I love you Bob

[DennisdeLange]

Nice paintings!!!

As a little kid we always watched the shows!

Now at 26 I'm ready to take up a class and try it too!

Keep it up!

[clownfish8]

Well done! I'm sure you've made Bob's day where ever he may be.

[lynnetelfer]

Thank you!

Bob has inspired us to go further and try new things. Happy Accidents Volume #2 being out together soon.