I recently found out that Bob Ross died of cancer back in 1995. I am absolutely gutted. For those who haven't heard of Bob he was the presenter of "The Joy of Painting" Who always had a smile and a kind word to say. Who used to take in homeless squirrels and owls.
Bob Ross quotes,
Bob painted "happy little trees"
When beating his brush to clean it he describes it as "beating the devil out of it"
"we don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents."
"Everybody needs a friend"
"God was having a good day when He made Alaska"
"All right, we are going to use a fan brush here and uh why don't you take some hunter green and we are going to put a happy little bush right down over here in the corner there and that'll just be our little secret and if you tell anyone that that bush is there I will come to your house and I will cut you."
I don't think he is dead. Not really, Bob can't die, I reckon he just got bored with with is growing celebrity status and retired to the Alaskan woods with his squirrel pea-pod who lives in his afro with the owl and a sparrow. Maybe if you take a trip to the Alaskan forests you may (if your very lucky) catch a fleeting glimpse of Bob painting his happy little trees.
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