Bob Ross
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Robert Norman Ross was an American painter and art instructor who created and hosted The Joy of Painting, an instructional television program that aired from 1983 to 1994 on PBS in the United States a
Publicity photo of Ross, c. 1982
Ross during his Air Force years, giving a painting demonstration in Fairbanks, Alaska, c. late 1970s
Cosplay of Bob Ross at New York Comic Con 2016
Street art of Bob Ross in Çankaya District, Ankara, Turkey
Wet-on-wet
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Wet-on-wet, or alla prima, direct painting or au premier coup, is a painting technique in which layers of wet paint are applied to previously administered layers of wet paint. Used mostly in oil paint
Bob Ross
…him to host the show in Muncie, Indiana beginning in 1983. The show features him instructing viewers on how to create landscape art using the quick, wet-on-wet oil painting technique with a limited palette. It ran until 1994, and Ross died a year later at the age of 52. His legacy endures as an icon in popular…
Diego Velázquez, The Jester Calabacillas (Madrid) (1637-39) is a prime example of the wet-on-wet technique.
Frans Hals, Jasper Schade van Westrum (1645); painted mostly wet-on-wet. The forehead has portions of wet (white) over dry (brown/black).
Rembrandt, Portrait of Jan Six (1654) has numerous uses of the wet-on-wet method.
Winslow Homer, Rowing Home (1890), an example of the wet-on-wet technique in watercolor, especially in the sky