Information about Painter Bob Ross

Maybe the name Bob Ross will not be familiar to many of you, but if we say ‘Bonus head painter’, we are sure that his smiling face will immediately come to your mind. Painting Sevinci, which started to be broadcast on TRT 2 screens in the 1990s, is known in the world as the program called The Joy of Painting. Bob Ross was taking the brush in his hand and he was creating magnificent pictures by calling a small tree here and a laughing stream there.

Since he drew on wet ground using the wet painting technique, the programs lasted approximately 30 minutes, so none of us got bored and quit. Bob Ross, who works on the theme of nature in his paintings, It was loved all over the world where the program was broadcast. He created more than 30 thousand paintings during the program. Bob Ross Both his life and his career are full of details that will surprise those who hear them.

Let’s briefly introduce it for those who don’t know: Who is Bob Ross?

His full name is Bob Norman Ross. He was born on October 29, 1942, in Florida, United States. At the age of 14, he lost part of his left index finger while doing carpentry work in his father’s workshop. Bob Ross, who joined the US Air Force He started his career in Alaska. Here he discovered his passion for painting and devoted himself to painting when he retired.

He loved the wet painting technique developed by Bill Alexander and took lessons from Alexander. In 1983, he started making a painting program called The Joy of Painting on PSB channel. Bob Ross, who created tens of thousands of paintings in the program that lasted 11 years, died of lymph cancer on July 14, 1995, at the age of 52.

Information about Bob Ross:

• His painting career began by painting landscapes in the military.
• The name that changed his life was Bill Alexander.
• Bob Ross didn’t make a dime from the show.
• The whole world loved him, but very few people painted him.
• Bob Ross arrived late in Turkey.
• He would paint three of the same paintings in each program.
• He didn’t sell even a single painting.

His painting career began by painting landscapes in the military:

Bob Ross, who served as a staff sergeant in the US Air Force for 20 years, started working as a professional painter after his retirement, but his career actually started while he was on duty. Bob Ross, who could not control his passion for painting the fascinating landscapes of Alaska, He preferred to use a completely different surface instead of canvas; pan. Bob Ross, who painted Alaska scenes on gold-colored pans that you can find for tens of thousands of dollars on second-hand sites today, was selling these products for $25 at that time.

The name that changed his life was Bill Alexander:

Between 1974 and 1982, German Painter Bill Alexander was making a program on PBS. In this program, he was drawing pictures using the wet painting technique on wet ground. Bob Ross was amazed by this technique. After his retirement, he met with Bill Alexander and took lessons from him. He was so successful that Bill Alexander named him as his successor and started hosting Bob Ross programs on PBS.

At this point, it is useful to open a small parenthesis. Even though Bill Alexander, who devoted years to making a painting program and developed the wet on wet technique, loves Bob Ross over the years he became uncomfortable with his worldwide success. In an interview years later, he said that he invented this technique, that Bob betrayed him, and worst of all, Bob made the mistake of thinking he was more successful than Bill.

Bob Ross didn’t make a dime from the show:

Bob Ross produced his show The Joy of Painting on PBS for 11 years, from 1983 to 1994. If you think that this program, which lasted for years, made him rich, you are wrong, because Bob Ross made money for this program. He did not receive a single penny from the channel. Bob Ross Inc. The painter, who had his own company called, was selling painting lesson video tapes and art materials through this company. He also had a team of traveling art teachers, including himself. So the program served as a kind of advertisement for him.

The whole world loved him, but few people painted:

At the time of its broadcast, Bob Ross’s show had a 95 percent viewership rating on US television. When we look at the world, more than 100 million people were watching him in England, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, South Korea and Turkey. Bob Ross was making an educational program, not a show. So millions of people should have watched it and painted it, but no, it didn’t happen that way. It is estimated that at most 10 percent of the viewers were drawing during the period it was broadcast. The rest of the audience was probably just captivated by the painter’s masterful brushstrokes.

Bob Ross came to Turkey late:

The Joy of Painting program, which aired on PBS between 1983 and 1994, It was first broadcast in our country on TRT 2 in 1993 under the name of Resim Sevinci. So, we had the opportunity to get to know him almost in the final season of the program. However, the Joy of Painting, which lasted 31 seasons and 403 episodes, was so loved in our country that it was still broadcast until recently. The person who voices Bob Ross in Turkish in the Resim Sevinci program is our master artist Burçin Oraloğlu. The program became much more enjoyable with Burçin Oraloğlu’s voice.

He painted three of the same paintings in each program:

It looks like he is making an impromptu painting so that there will be a tree here and a stream will flow there. Bob Ross was actually carefully editing each picture beforehand. Before the shooting of the program started, he was drawing the first picture to be used as a reference. He was drawing the second picture that we all saw during the program, based on the reference picture. Finally, he would draw the third picture to appear in the credits. Each brush stroke of the painter was carefully photographed and later used in educational books and videos.

He did not sell even a single painting:

It is estimated that Bob Ross painted more than 30 thousand paintings during his time on the Joy of Painting program. If you think that these paintings are Bob Ross’ source of income, you are wrong because the painter did not sell even one of them in his life. In an interview with the New York Times in 1991, he asked: ‘What’s going on with all those pictures?’ When asked, the pictures were distributed to different PBS stations and It was sold at auction and the proceeds were donated to charities. told. Today you have to spend a lot of money to buy one of these paintings.

From TRT screens with the program Resim Sevinci Bob Ross, the painter who instilled a love of painting in all of us We talked about interesting information, some of which you have heard for the first time. Have you been watching the bonus-minded loving painter, have you ever looked at him and tried to draw a picture? Let’s meet in the comments.

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