![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithHere are the location and content notes for "The Contrast of Light and Dark."
"Put light against light – you have nothing. Put dark against dark – you have nothing. It’s the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning."
-- Bob Ross
See the outside of Simon and Tolliver's horse barn. The chestnut horse on the left is Flo, the lead mare. The bay horse on the right is Walnut. Not shown is Buttercup, a gelding.
This is the outside of Tolliver's blacksmith shop exterior.
Shiv first encountered Rob Ross in "Happy Accidents" and "Happy Little Trees."
In local-America, Bob Ross was a famous painter. This infographic shows a statistical analysis of subjects in his paintings.
Alla prima or wet-on-wet is a technique primarily used in oil painting, but it can work with any slow-drying liquid medium. Watch a video of alla prima portrait painting.
Two Inch Brush has a searchable database of all the episodes of The Joy of Painting. In addition to excellent art lessons, they also make great gentle listening when you need to relax or fall asleep.
Here are some supplies and a video of how to mix paint.
This pattern shows the layout for a Bob Ross landscape palette, and here is a precolored palette. You can see some electronic palettes here.
Read about the benefits of using a limited palette in painting.
You can paint most Bob Ross landscapes with just four tools: a 2" brush, a palette knife, a fan brush, and a filbert brush. This minimalist approach to tool selection makes it easy and affordable for novices. It's also great preparation for plein air painting, where you have to work fast and you do not want to lug 60 pounds of gear into the woods.
See a supply list for hosting your own Bob Ross workshop.
Plein air art is done outside. Explore paints and other supplies for it. Oil paint, watercolor, and drawing all work. This kit features oil and acrylic, and this one is watercolor. Choosing a surface can mean watercolor canvas or paper, regular canvas, pastel paper, or studio canvas. The Rob Ross approach is ideal for painting en plein air due to its minimal equipment, speed, and easygoing approach.
A comparison of oil paint brands show that they often have well over a hundred colors. You absolutely do not need hundreds of paints. You can paint a lot with just a handful of colors, and pretty much anything with the baker's dozen or so like Rob Ross uses, even very precise color matches.
"Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you can move things around? You have unlimited power on this canvas – can literally, literally move mountains."
-- Bob Ross
"You need the dark in order to show the light."
-- Bob Ross
See some of the best episodes of Bob Ross.
Page 2 Rustic Barn 18:09 / 26:57
"Let these colors mix in the brush and that way you have a multitude of things happening right here in the brush. You don't have to spend a lot of time trying to mix all these different colors."
Page 3 Meadow Stream
"All we're doing here is applying some dark color so the light color will show later on. You need the dark in order to show the light." (while painting grass)
20:57 / 26:32
"When you buy your first tube of paint, you get your artist's license there. Read it -- it says you can do anything you want to do, at least on this piece of canvas. This piece of canvas is your world."
Art has many purposes and people make it for many reasons. It doesn't have to be Great Art to be meaningful and worthwhile.
"Let’s just blend this little rascal here, ha! Happy as we can be."
-- Bob Ross
Explore painting horses with measurements, step by step, alla prima live. Here are some troubleshooting tips and a big archive of lessons.
Various legends describe how horses were made from wind.
"Gotta have opposites, light and dark and dark and light, in painting. It’s like in life. Gotta have a little sadness once in awhile so you know when the good times come. I'm waiting on the good times now."
-- Bob Ross
[in Just-]
BY E. E. CUMMINGS
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
Paint some Golden Rays of Sunshine.
If you don't have an actual view, you can substitute a poster (cheap) or virtual window (pricey but more effective). This virtual window site lets you search by views; here is an example of a rain window. These moving murals look great and have sound options. Sometimes malls have a kiosk selling backlit nature scenes with sound and motion, usually a water feature; these are among the cheapest virtual windows that are really good. Sunlight is good for you (in moderation), especially a sunny window, but daylight lamps help too. T-America commonly sells light panels with a sound machine in the frame, so it can play birdsong, crickets, rain, and so on. Hang one on the wall, frame it with curtains, and it rather resembles a window.
Oil paint can take a long time to dry, anywhere from 24 hours drying to the touch, a week or two well dried, to months or years for fully cured. If you want to put a top coat over most or all of the painting, give it plenty of drying time first.
Worth mentioning is that Shiv's paintings can be identified because he always includes something sharp in them. It's his way of personalizing a style of expressive art that so many people have mocked as commercialized and repetitive. Look closely, and you'll never mistake his for anyone else's. There's an edge to his art that Rob Ross just doesn't have, let alone random art students.
Enjoy some wholesome life lessons from Bob Ross. You can see how his worldview meshes just fine with supervillains, despite his upbeat personality. As far as he's concerned, they're black paint, and you can't make a good painting without both light and dark.
"Put light against light – you have nothing. Put dark against dark – you have nothing. It’s the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning."
-- Bob Ross
See the outside of Simon and Tolliver's horse barn. The chestnut horse on the left is Flo, the lead mare. The bay horse on the right is Walnut. Not shown is Buttercup, a gelding.
This is the outside of Tolliver's blacksmith shop exterior.
Shiv first encountered Rob Ross in "Happy Accidents" and "Happy Little Trees."
In local-America, Bob Ross was a famous painter. This infographic shows a statistical analysis of subjects in his paintings.
Alla prima or wet-on-wet is a technique primarily used in oil painting, but it can work with any slow-drying liquid medium. Watch a video of alla prima portrait painting.
Two Inch Brush has a searchable database of all the episodes of The Joy of Painting. In addition to excellent art lessons, they also make great gentle listening when you need to relax or fall asleep.
Here are some supplies and a video of how to mix paint.
This pattern shows the layout for a Bob Ross landscape palette, and here is a precolored palette. You can see some electronic palettes here.
Read about the benefits of using a limited palette in painting.
You can paint most Bob Ross landscapes with just four tools: a 2" brush, a palette knife, a fan brush, and a filbert brush. This minimalist approach to tool selection makes it easy and affordable for novices. It's also great preparation for plein air painting, where you have to work fast and you do not want to lug 60 pounds of gear into the woods.
See a supply list for hosting your own Bob Ross workshop.
Plein air art is done outside. Explore paints and other supplies for it. Oil paint, watercolor, and drawing all work. This kit features oil and acrylic, and this one is watercolor. Choosing a surface can mean watercolor canvas or paper, regular canvas, pastel paper, or studio canvas. The Rob Ross approach is ideal for painting en plein air due to its minimal equipment, speed, and easygoing approach.
A comparison of oil paint brands show that they often have well over a hundred colors. You absolutely do not need hundreds of paints. You can paint a lot with just a handful of colors, and pretty much anything with the baker's dozen or so like Rob Ross uses, even very precise color matches.
"Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you can move things around? You have unlimited power on this canvas – can literally, literally move mountains."
-- Bob Ross
"You need the dark in order to show the light."
-- Bob Ross
See some of the best episodes of Bob Ross.
Page 2 Rustic Barn 18:09 / 26:57
"Let these colors mix in the brush and that way you have a multitude of things happening right here in the brush. You don't have to spend a lot of time trying to mix all these different colors."
Page 3 Meadow Stream
"All we're doing here is applying some dark color so the light color will show later on. You need the dark in order to show the light." (while painting grass)
20:57 / 26:32
"When you buy your first tube of paint, you get your artist's license there. Read it -- it says you can do anything you want to do, at least on this piece of canvas. This piece of canvas is your world."
Art has many purposes and people make it for many reasons. It doesn't have to be Great Art to be meaningful and worthwhile.
"Let’s just blend this little rascal here, ha! Happy as we can be."
-- Bob Ross
Explore painting horses with measurements, step by step, alla prima live. Here are some troubleshooting tips and a big archive of lessons.
Various legends describe how horses were made from wind.
"Gotta have opposites, light and dark and dark and light, in painting. It’s like in life. Gotta have a little sadness once in awhile so you know when the good times come. I'm waiting on the good times now."
-- Bob Ross
[in Just-]
BY E. E. CUMMINGS
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
Paint some Golden Rays of Sunshine.
If you don't have an actual view, you can substitute a poster (cheap) or virtual window (pricey but more effective). This virtual window site lets you search by views; here is an example of a rain window. These moving murals look great and have sound options. Sometimes malls have a kiosk selling backlit nature scenes with sound and motion, usually a water feature; these are among the cheapest virtual windows that are really good. Sunlight is good for you (in moderation), especially a sunny window, but daylight lamps help too. T-America commonly sells light panels with a sound machine in the frame, so it can play birdsong, crickets, rain, and so on. Hang one on the wall, frame it with curtains, and it rather resembles a window.
Oil paint can take a long time to dry, anywhere from 24 hours drying to the touch, a week or two well dried, to months or years for fully cured. If you want to put a top coat over most or all of the painting, give it plenty of drying time first.
Worth mentioning is that Shiv's paintings can be identified because he always includes something sharp in them. It's his way of personalizing a style of expressive art that so many people have mocked as commercialized and repetitive. Look closely, and you'll never mistake his for anyone else's. There's an edge to his art that Rob Ross just doesn't have, let alone random art students.
Enjoy some wholesome life lessons from Bob Ross. You can see how his worldview meshes just fine with supervillains, despite his upbeat personality. As far as he's concerned, they're black paint, and you can't make a good painting without both light and dark.
