Bob Ross, the very permed and often-bespectacled star of PBS' long-running and beloved The Joy of Painting, is many things to many people. In every episode of his show, he encouraged, enlightened, and brought joy to everyone who watched. Here are his most breathtaking paintings.
In the last episode of Season 11 of The Joy of Painting, Ross begins the show in a unique way: with what looks like a completed work. He usually starts off with a blank canvas, but the purpose of this particular installment, aptly titled "Happy Accident," is to help viewers overcome an especially vexing problem in painting: what to do when you've made an obvious error or when the painting itself is just fatally flawed.
Ross had already made a name for himself for taking what appeared to be complete paintings and adding black marks right down the center. Of course, the slashes are soon trees that viewers have to admit make the perfect finishing touches on the piece. "Happy Accident" is this surprise maneuver on speed. He takes his palette knife in hand and begins to strip paint from the canvas so as to take that perfectly fine painting and destroy it. Then he paints another scene in its place. The re-do is a gorgeous creek scape, but perhaps even more important than the finished product is the message Ross leaves us with at the end of the episode: no painting is a lost cause, and do-overs are just fine, in art and in life.
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"Happy Accident" | 0:17
"Campfire" | 1:23
"Northern Lights" | 2:30
"Misty Waterfall" | 3:33
"Tropical Seascape" | 4:45
"Trapper's Cabin" | 5:47
"Arctic Beauty" | 6:53
"Final Reflections" | 8:01
"Shades of Grey" | 9:23
"Mountain Ridge Lake" | 10:34
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