When The Joy of Painting first aired on public television back in 1983, the legendary, late painter Bob Ross taught the world that you don’t have to be blessed by Michelangelo at birth to be able to ...

Still from the first episode of ‘The Joy of Painting’ with Bob Ross (screenshot via YouTube) Today is a good day. Not just because it’s Friday, but because the very first episode of the very first ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A new generation can learn how to paint ...

At the start of every Joy of Painting episode, Bob Ross shows us the colors we'll need to paint along with him. How are those colors created? We uncover secrets behind how Golden Artist Colors makes ...

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Certified Ross Instructor Faye Dasher leads a Bob Ross Paint-Along at TwitchCon in September 2019. Bob Ross is an enduring household name, thanks to his unshakeable, wholesome wit and his pure belief ...

Throughout most of the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, PBS aired The Joy of Painting, a quiet art show that might’ve been lost to the annals of history if it weren’t for the magnetic host. He ...

Bob Ross was a legendary painter whose art was mimicked for years by television audiences on PBS. As original paintings by Ross have been notoriously hard to find, one recent sale has piqued the ...

Dozens of Bob Ross paintings — many of them created live on the PBS series that made him a household name — will be auctioned off in the coming months to support public television. Ross, with his ...