{"id":10855,"date":"2020-07-28T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10855"},"modified":"2020-08-03T13:57:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T20:57:48","slug":"sunshine-of-the-eternal-bob-ross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/28\/sunshine-of-the-eternal-bob-ross\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine Of The Eternal Bob Ross"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/culture\/archive\/2020\/07\/why-bob-ross-still-so-popular\/614431\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Is Bob Ross Still So Popular?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty-five years after his death, the painter who gave us \u201chappy little trees\u201d is more ubiquitous than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Story by\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/author\/michael-j-mooney\/\">Michael J. <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/author\/michael-j-mooney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mooney<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bob Ross - Island in the Wilderness (Season 29 Episode 1)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lLWEXRAnQd0?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cEvery day\u2019s a good day when you paint.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>\u2014Bob Ross (1942\u20131995)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Staring at the empty canvas on the easel\u00a0in front of me, I couldn\u2019t understand how this\u2014<em>nothing<\/em>\u2014might somehow transform into even a rough approximation of the Bob Ross painting we were using as a model. That painting was classic Bob Ross: a snowy landscape bursting with color, a world of glimmering trees and vibrant shrubs around a slick, icy pond. Gazing at it evoked that feeling you get sitting by a fire on a crisp, cold night. No way I could make anything like\u00a0<em>that<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was in a room on the side of a big-box craft store in the suburbs north of Dallas, about to start a class taught by John Fowler, a Bob Ross\u2013certified instructor\u2014which means that he spent three weeks in Florida learning the wet-on-wet painting technique Ross employed on television. A tall, bespectacled man in his 60s, with a light beard and a deep voice and soothing cadence reminiscent of Ross himself, John explained that he has a few things in common with the puffy-haired painter. They both spent many years in the Air Force, for example, and both retired with the rank of master sergeant. I\u2019d learn he also uses some Bob Ross vernacular, sprinkling instructions with expressions such as \u201cWe don\u2019t make mistakes, we just have happy accidents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/culture\/archive\/2020\/07\/why-bob-ross-still-so-popular\/614431\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Atlantic<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Atlantic Why Is Bob Ross Still So Popular? Twenty-five years after his death, the painter who gave us \u201chappy little trees\u201d is more ubiquitous than ever. Story by\u00a0\u00a0Michael J. Mooney \u201cEvery day\u2019s a good day when you paint.\u201d&nbsp;\u2014Bob Ross (1942\u20131995) Staring at the empty canvas on the easel\u00a0in front of me, I couldn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}