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I don't know who Bob Ross is, but the picture looks decent nonetheless.
However, the photo of the painting is pretty awful - you can see the photo has been taken from an acute angle and the perspective is distorted as a result. The corners of your painting should be at the corners of your viewfinder; take the photo from straight in front of the painting.
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Bob Ross was an American oil painter Alan who passed away some years ago. However his company still sell Bob Ross oils, videos, brushes etc. An extremely good painting Tony but as Alan has suggested you need to show it at it's best. Perhaps when you have done that you will put it on the gallery.
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Bob Ross was the artist I found on TV in the 90's and I fell in love with the thought of being able to paint. I watched so many of his programmes and I was determined that I would one day learn to paint, but it was many yeasr later that I joined an art class, absolutely terrified and I learnt very little from the teacher, but I persevered. so I have a lot to thank the Bob Ross programmes form many years ago.
I do remember his mountain paintings very well and I am sure I have seen this painting before. No... your photo is not doing your painting any favours. take lots of photos of it from various angles and you will then see what has been said from others remarks.
keep on painting. Find your own style and enjoy yourself.
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It's a better painting than most of Bob's, it has to be said - Ross painted to a formula because he had to fit his demonstrations into roughly half-hour TV programmes; it wouldn't be impossible to do that with conventional oil paints and oil techniques, but it certainly wouldn't be easy, either: so everything was made for the format - the paint, the palette, the easel, the whole trick. It was where you went from there that mattered - if you moved on from the tailor-made paints and mediums, you'd develop as a painter; if you didn't, you'd always be a mini-Bob.
Your painting has only one problem so far as I'm concerned, and that's that I doubt you've ever seen what you've painted (you may have done, in which case apologies): it looks like Alaska (I'm told: I've certainly never been there) because that's where Ross was happiest and that scenery is what he wanted to paint. And that's what Bob Ross instructors tend to teach - so we get lots of paintings of varying quality of a place that only the originator of the technique knew - in other words, I've nothing against Alaskans or visitors there painting Alaska (or anywhere else) but I question whether you'll really learn a lot or go very far as a painter unless you paint things that are personal to YOU, and not to the late Bob Ross.
But we're taking you to pieces here - because most of us (Alan has been fortunate - how, I don't know) have seen many, many Ross clones, and the name alone is enough to set us off. So congratulations on your painting, and I hope you'll be one of those who does move on from these techniques and subjects: pop up to the Cairngorms if you like painting mountains, or actually go and see Alaska; let's see things through YOUR eyes.
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As a first painting which I probably find hard to believe it isn't a bad effort, but as we have said on so many occasions most Bob Ross followers don't go on to develop their own style, simply copying him is not the way forward but if you enjoy doing that, all well and good.
There is no aerial perspective to speak of, which is indicative of Bob's work, those mountain peaks are as sharp as a razor at five miles.
There are indeed three names on here that ring a bell from the Orient, hopefully that is all behind us now.
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