Viva_arboles_felices

On Jun 29, 2005, at 5:32 PM, Pall Thayer wrote:
> If that's how art should be I'll have to erase my brain and run out
> to the local hobby store and pick up Bob Ross' Joy of Painting tapes.
> At least I can be fairly sure that my fellow teacher will keep
> complimenting me on my work.

http://site.angrypete.net/article/372/my-icons-are-gone
"One of my very first influences, in the artistic world was Bob Ross. I
remember clearly sitting with my two sisters on the couch, shoulder to
shoulder, watching in awe as Ross took a blank, vacant canvas, and in
thirty minutes painted a picture that was awe inspiring. Granted, no
art critic in their right mind would ever think that a Bob Ross
painting was a masterpeice, but in my mind, they were. Each brush
stroke, and each comment about wherever a cloud or tree lives in my
world helped shape my individuality.

As I've grown older, and I've learned more about him, and what he did
with his life, I'm impressed that someone so famous would be so humble,
and such a decent fellow. I'm sure he could have gotten quite a
considerable sum of money for the paintings he did, but he would rather
donate them to a charitable cause so that a charity would be better off
than he would. It helped me realize that by donating my own time to
those that need it, via web design, or anything of the like, I'd be a
decent human being as well.

Bob Ross passed away in 1995, taken by cancer, but, I can bet that he's
one of the people in heaven, talking to God about happy little trees,
happy little clouds, and thanking God that he gave him the ability to
share with the world a simple, elegant painting method."