Used to watch Bob Ross, no wonder I couldn't find his paintings to buy anywhere

[theking]

...Not even on the Internet, and true none of his paintings have people in it, at least I've never seen he painted people in his landscape paintings.. :

Almost Every Bob Ross Painting in Existence Lives in a Virginia Office Park

Now some of the iconic American painter’s work is headed to the Smithsonian.



SOMEWHERE OFF ROUTE 50 IN Herndon, Virginia, next to a LabCorp and across the street from a dentist’s office, there is a warehouse that houses almost every painting ever painted by one of the most recognizable painters in America: Bob Ross. They’re not on display, but are stacked carefully in numbered cardboard boxes; landscape upon landscape, snow-capped peak upon snow-capped peak, happy little tree upon happy little tree.

Ross’s instructional television show, The Joy of Painting, ran on PBS for 31 seasons, from 1983 to 1994, each containing 13 episodes, for which Ross would make three versions of the same painting—one as an initial reference, one that he painted on TV, and a last, more painstaking version to be included in his books. Over his PBS tenure, Ross crafted some 1,143 paintings (there were sometimes guest hosts), according to a recent video from The New York Times. The majority of those landscapes—and they are all landscapes—are housed in the warehouses of Bob Ross Inc., the company that sells his signature how-to books, art supplies, and memorabilia. We’d wager there are enough mountains, lakes, and happy little trees to designate Bob Ross Inc. a national park.

Though Bob Ross Inc. operates out of Virginia—run by Ross’s longtime business partner Annette Kowalski—Ross himself was a Florida man. He was born in Daytona Beach in 1942, and grew up in Orlando. When Ross turned 18, he enlisted in the United States Air Force and was eventually stationed at a base near Fairbanks, Alaska. There, Ross saw snow and mountains for the first time—staples of the landscapes now stacked in heaps in Virginia.



https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-are-bob-ross-paintings

[DuMa]

i remembered him while growing up watching pbs channel.  All I could remembered was his trees and how it was so easy for you to paint them by just dap dap dap and when i went to paint night, I added his style of trees into my painting too.  Never thought it was so easy. 

Took me at least 25 years just to try his dapping technique for his trees.   

[theking]

Me too...enjoyed watching him on PBS and none of his shows were edited afaik...

His son took over the show but didn't have the same charisma IMO...