Bob Ross Blue Mountains Interpretation

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Bob Ross (1942-1995) is the host of a famous TV show where he teaches his viewers how to do oil painting. The show is called “The Joy of Painting” and it aired on PBS for eleven years. During the thirty minutes of the show, Bob Ross encourages his viewers how to discover and master the wet-on-wet paint technique for quick results that looks amazing. Bob Ross’s lessons center on painting trees, mountains, rivers and beaches. These images capture Bob Ross, s respect for nature while growing up in Florida. His love for the beauty of the outdoors is expressed in his paintings The Northern lights, The Bubbling Stream, and Blue Moon.
Bob Ross’s
“Northern Lights” conveys the sense of awe that can be found in nature itself. The lights highlight …show more content…

The clear blue stream relaxing while it goes down stream as if it is saying ‘everything is all right’. The land highlights a calming atmosphere in the way the surroundings bring out the beauty of the stream. “The Bubbling Stream” has that type of appeal because of the gentle landscape that’s around it that this painting displays.
Bob Ross’s “Blue Moon” painting is center around the moon. The moonlight shows off the beauty of the beach in the way little blue waves forms towards shore. The title of the painting is “Blue Moon” meaning it’s got to be about the moon and it effects it has on its surroundings. The night sky is enchanting thanks to the “Blue Moon” lighting things up around the beach.
Bob Ross was TV artist who was best known as the guy who painted “happy little trees”. But after seeing his show through reruns, one will see that he paints more than just trees. Bob Ross paints and how he teaches his viewers with quiet demeanor. While painting, Ross tells the audience parts of his life which is shown in detail of each of his paintings. Bob Ross is a normal guy with a calm voice who paints and by looking at his work, it’s done with a lot of care but he makes it look easy for the

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