The Most Impressive Bob Ross Paintings And Episodes

It would be difficult to overstate the joy that is the very first episode of The Joy of Painting, which debuted on PBS on January 11, 1983. It's sweet, it's beautiful, it's awkward, and it's inspiring. It's titled "A Walk in the Woods," and it's Bob Ross doing what he does best: giving aspiring painters

It would be difficult to overstate the joy that is the very first episode of The Joy of Painting, which debuted on PBS on January 11, 1983. It's sweet, it's beautiful, it's awkward, and it's inspiring. It's titled "A Walk in the Woods," and it's Bob Ross doing what he does best: giving aspiring painters all the tools they need to create "almighty pitchers." Okay, "pictures," but who cares? It's Bob Ross' world now and we're just living in it.

In that world, one uses natural bristle brushes, almighty palette knives, and an assortment of just eight colors, including Prussian Blue, Van Dyke Brown, and Dark Sienna. Already, Ross is demystifying the process. He wants his viewers to see that everyone has a painter hidden inside of them. The trick is to draw that painter out.

The painting itself is one of his fuzzier efforts. The trees are golden and bushy, the bushes are nebulous and pink-tinged. At the center is a narrow path winding out of sight and in the foreground is a series of descending puddles because, "maybe, just maybe, it rained last."

And maybe, just maybe, a perfect show was born, the kind of show that would inspire and comfort and delight audiences for generations.

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