Mohammad

School was not his calling and in ninth grade he joined the Air Force. It was in the Air Force where he was introduced to painting while stationed in Anchorage, Alaska. Finally finding something that interested him, Bob Ross pursued painting by attending several art schools after he finished his service. It seemed he shared the same characteristics as me, impatience, because he became frustrated with the traditional forms of art and decided to revolutionize the "Wet-on-Wet" technique so he could create a quick-study painting style that appealed to all citizens of various painting backgrounds. This style combined with his very likable and motivating personality reached the world through his television show, "The Joy of Painting".

Bob, after trying out different ways of painting like water color-painting, discovered his style of painting which is a little different from the wet-on-wet methode. He perfected this way of paintings with all kinds of tricks to make beautiful landscapes. Instead of making tiny details with a one-hair brush, he developed very big brushes but still he could make a lot of details.

In 1983, he got his own TV-show called "The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross". With his very positive attitude, he convinced many viewers in all around the world. He proved that every one else could paint like him! With his soft and gentle voice, he showed the viewers how to make "happy little mountains" and "happy little clouds" by making a painting step by step, each show.

He told little stories about "Gods little creatures" hiding in the dark areas in the painting and explained that everybody should need a friend. Like this, he could learn the viewers in a funny way how to paint.

Because of his calm and soothing voice, (they have chosen a doubler on Bob's voice whose voice is the same and calm and very attractive. Some friends says Bob is talking in Farsi language!), some people only watched the show just to hear his voice in Iran), his very positive view of life.

"Every day is a good day to be alive!", like Bob said. People became inspired by his way of painting and tried it out themselves. The TV-show grow into a large multimillion-dollar bussines by selling the equipment, How-to books, step by step videos and more.

On the 4th of July 1995, Bob Ross died at an age of 52. The cause of his death was cancer. However, the show was still populair and Bob Ross inc. continued to exist. One of Bobs friends (Annette Kowalski) even developed a way to paint flowers, inspired on the Bob Ross technique. Eventhough Bob has died at an early age we can say he lived his life intensely. Wherever Bob is now -painting in a heaven with happy little clouds or not- remember that he will live on in your paintings. You rule Mr. Ross!

Happy painting, and God bless.