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jacey.boldart in Discovery-it • 9 months ago

Before Bob Ross, I watched Bill Alexander who I believe taught Bob Ross the wet-on-wet technique. I don't know how young I was. Once, maybe in my 20s, I bought some paints and all of that and did a few paintings that way myself. I didn't stay interested in it very long, but I did have some of Bill's odorless paint thinner that lasted forever !

We the computer and places like youtube, generation after generation can learn from some of the same people. I would have never imagined it back in my day.

9 months ago in Discovery-it by jacey.boldart

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dbooster 9 months ago (edited)

You can find Bill Alexander's videos on YouTube as well, but they aren't as popular as Bob Ross's.

Doesn't oil paint itself last forever? I'm not sure, since I've never painted. When I was a kid, I always wanted to buy some oil paints and paint along with Bob Ross, but my parents couldn't afford it. Then once I move out on my own, well, I just never got around to it. I've told my son if he continues to be interested in art, I'll buy him some eventually, so maybe I will find out eventually for myself.

It's pretty crazy how these people who predate the internet have become popular these days. I wonder what Bob would have thought if you'd told him one day kids in Japan and other countries would be watching his videos and that his name would be known worldwide.

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jacey.boldart 9 months ago

The only thing I didn't love about Bill's paintings was that he loved to sign his name really big in red paint at the end. I always thought that messed up his paintings. LOL I also watched Bob later and at the time didn't know there was any controversy between the two. Bob definitely was more popular than Bill, once he got started.

Oil paintings can last forever, but I wasn't particularly good at it and didn't do it long enough to get better. I kept the paintings for a number of years, but eventually let them go. I didn't paint steady till I was much older, but I didn't use that style when I got into it more.

I was fun watching and trying it, back in the day.

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