Bob Ross’s First Ever On-Air Painting On Sale For $9.8M

Daily Wire ^ | By Amanda Harding • Sep 22, 2023

[Liz]

Hunter should up his prices......after all, buyers get federal favors and even sit-downs w/ a president.

Makes Bob Ross look like a piker.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Yes. Drill sergeant. Screamed at people for a living.

"You will PAINT that happy little tree RIGHT THERE, or you will peel potatoes for the NEXT WEEK! YOU GOT THAT, MAGGOT???"
"SIR, YES SIR!"

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yes. Air Force stationed in Alaska.

Is his estate selling this...or that wretched woman who stole his name and money?

I don’t click on Ross vids on YT anymore because she’s monetized.

[simpson96]

As with all “art”, the selling price has nothing to do with the aesthetic appeal.

[higgmeister]

I was going to be an artist from the third grade into college.   In my first college art class there was a guy that used a wet-on-wet technique for a painting that looked like a photograph of the model sitting in front of him.   He used a needlepoint artist brush and blended on the canvas as if he was creating pixels on a video monitor.   The pompous future maestro even smoked a pipe like Norman Rockwell.

I dropped out of college after the first quarter and fled with my sister and her "old-man" to Louisville, KY, arriving there for the massive traffic jam in the late evening of Derby Day.   Talk about omens.

Six months later I went back home to my parents, met and married my wife soon after, enlisted in the USAF, learned telecommunications and had a forty year career, retiring from Verizon after 31 years.

I only admire art now but as side note, I was born one hundred years to the day after Vincent van Gogh.   Maybe I dodged a mournful fate.   Our next wedding anniversary is the big five-oh.   I also did a competent charcoal portrait of my bride though.

[_longranger81]

I bet that brings you both joy.

[sauropod]

Ping

[higgmeister]

Yes thanks.

[threefinger]

Still more evidence that for entertainers, dying young is a good career move.

Bob’s re-runs are now on the telly in the UK and he’s a cult figure (not unlike the Germans with David Hasselhoff). It’s all rather bizarre.