I just saw a full episode of his show. The fuck? I’m not a painter but I’ve seen my mom paint all my life.
This motherfucker just did in 15 minutes what would take her weeks. Like???
And he did it while talking, in clean fucking strokes. So fucking fast. I saw a literal masterpiece being created in fifteen minutes from nothing. From nothing. It was a blank fucking canvas, man.
I knew of Bob Ross, but I’d never actually seen him paint. Goddamn. How did actual artists react to him? Like, how do you not feel just thoroughly outclassed.
All while this mofo is saying how easy all that he’s doing is while I know for a fact how hard it is. Like, is he just gaslighting everyone?
Not an art student or anything, but I remember an expo of Frida Kahlo and one of the walls were a picture of like a chair and a window and surrounding the picture there were dozens of documents relating to the paint itself, like napkin sketches, a mini version just in black and white, Frida’s writings about the picture and so on. For me that I’m not an artist it showed me all the work behind that you never see, I always tough that painters just got inspired and painted in real time, when actually there’s a lot of work behind the scenes.