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Mary Kathryn Dullforce

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Trying out Bob Ross products Primer for  Wet on Wet mixed media. Once dry is there any further changes possible with this technique? I would appreciate  any suggestions. It is very rough and does not want to absorb  added colour. Thanks in advance.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Just as I would never recommend any Bob Ross technique, I would also never recommend any product produced by Bob Ross Inc.  Depending on what you want to do, you will almost certainly do it better with primers from Daler-Rowney, Winsor and Newton, Golden Paints, or Liquitex.  

Keith Orange

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Have you applied only the primer, or have you gone further and started the painting? More details would help.

Alan Bickley

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I can only agree with Robert regarding Bob Ross. Keep away from his techniques and materials is my advice! His working methods don’t resemble the painting techniques adopted by serious artists. I could go through each individually and explain why if I was challenged on this, his obsessive need for stippling being just one of his many misguided traits!  And not to mention the repetitive nature of his subject matter, you get variations of snow-capped mountains with log cabins and streams, with reflections of course, and those dreadful spruce trees, or moonlight over the ocean… you get my drift! The sad thing about all this, is that it’s just as easy to teach newcomers to oil painting the tried and tested traditional painting techniques, they’re no more difficult to grasp than the BR method. 

Nelda Mayer

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I am looking for the reviews online for the product produced by Bob Ross Inc. and thanks to you for sharing your review. I will surely keep it in my mind and I won't buy those products. Thanks for sharing your review. While searching for it online, I also found https://stateofwriting.com/uk/assignment-writing-service website link where I found the professional essay writers who help me with my essay assignments. Now, I can easily make paintings otherwise I can't concentrate on making them because of my pending assignments.

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Owen Lloyd

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Hi Mary  My experience of Bob Ross products is with the oil based paints, liquid white, liquid clear etc. I found that I could work on a painting Bob style for 2 days. The second day i topped up the liquid white / clear on unpainted areas as it became tacky overnight.  Beyond 2 days it became difficult to apply Bob's paint. They were designed to be stiff, to work with the liquid white/clear but that made them unsuited to painting on top of other layers. I hope sharing my experience helps.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Just avoid.  Ross, in fairness, made it quite clear that his techniques would not work with any paint other than that which he, or the Bill Alexander company, sold.  In which case - you have to ask what on earth the point of it was - you certainly aren't learning to paint in oil; you're learning how to paint with Ross paint - made by Weber, I think, but to his and Alexander's specification.  To quote from one of Ross's videos, the technique "just won't work with regular oil paint".  
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Mary Kathryn Dullforce

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Thank you for all your kind comments and advice. I appreciate your time to help. This is the end result with Oil after I added some White gouache over the white oil primer then proceeded to paint with Oil.  
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Robert Jones, Napa

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You used acrylic primer (presumably) then added gouache, then painted in oil over the top.... Er..... I don't think I'd do that, if I were you.  You're combining three different types of paint - you can get away with two, provided you've used acrylic "gesso" - actually, white acrylic priming - and, in several days' time, adding oil on top. But gouache in a paint sandwich will fail eventually - gouache can be reactivated: and once you have the painting cleaned, the whole lot is likely to crack, and slough off the canvas.   The key to structural integrity in paintings is not to over-complicate them by adding extraneous materials - after all: you don't need to; and if you don't need to, well - don't do it. 
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Incidentally - while the above is generally true, many oil painters in the past used egg tempera as a base, over a lead-based paint; but tempera is hard, unlike gouache - anyway: just don't!

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Mixed media gone berserk.    I am not too enamoured  by Mr Ross either.   He stifles creativity  , you are copying his work.   Not creating your own.    I believe he died a rich man. Sorry to be so negative to your well intentioned query , but I’m sure you can do better. 
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Agree with Robert and Sylvia but perhaps it was acrylic gouache……
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