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The Joy of Painting is an American half-hour instructional television show. Created and hosted by painter Bob Ross , it ran from January 11, 1983, to May 17, 1994. In most episodes, Ross taught techniques for landscape oil painting, completing a painting in each session.
Donna S. Dewberry (born November 6, 1953) is an American artist and author who developed a "One Stroke" painting technique that will enable anyone to reproduce any effect of nature with one easy-to-learn technique.
William Alexander (born Wilhelm Alexander; [1] 2 April 1915 – 24 January 1997), known as Bill Alexander on his TV show, was a German painter, art instructor, and television host. He was the creator and host of The Magic of Oil Painting (1974–1982) television series that ran on PBS in the United States.
The very first on-air painting from the very first episode of Ross’ beloved series “The Joy of Painting” is looking for a new owner after being kept safe for decades by one of the show’s ...
What would Bob Ross think? “It is season one, episode one of what you would call the rookie card for Bob Ross,” Ryan Nelson, who owns the gallery, Modern Artifact, said of the work created in ...
Bob Ross Inc. has embraced the resurgence of popularity around the painter. In 2015, the company inked a deal with Twitch to allow the channel to stream all 403 episodes of “The Joy of Painting.”
The Joy of Painting returned to television as "The Joy of Painting with Nicholas Hankins: Bob Ross's Unfinished Season." Nicholas Hankins, a Ross certified instructor, was the on-air host and painter. Hankins previously produced his own painting instructional videos. He released them through Bob Ross's YouTube page. [4]
Ross was working as a part-time bartender when he discovered a TV show called The Magic of Oil Painting, hosted by German painter Bill Alexander. [4]: 17–18 Alexander used a 16th-century painting style called alla prima (Italian for 'first attempt'), widely known as "wet-on-wet", that allowed him to create a painting within thirty minutes.