The Joy of Painting

Everyone has seen the Joy of Painting with Bob Ross at some point right. The painting show with the guy with the crazy hair that were filmed years and years ago (70s ?) and are still on Tv. He can paint an entire picture in a half hour and it looks amazing. Tyler and I stumbled upon the show a few weeks back and Tyler was mesmerized. He thought the whole thing was incredible.

For the next couple of days he wanted the watch the show and try painting himself. So we got out his washable kids paint....


and watercolor and sponge brushes

And he was ready to create his masterpiece. Clearly Tyler's "supplies" weren't exactly the same as Bob Ross but Tyler had a blast painting along. It only lasted a couple of days and then Tyler decided that this Bob guy was the best painter ever and it was just too hard to paint along. It was fun watching him work though and he really did a fabulous job given what he had to work with (oh and the fact that he is six....or maybe he was still 5 here :)).

Ready to go

Hard at work

Day 2

I love his trees....multicolor, textured, and used Bob's same application technique.

Hailey played along for a little bit too. She's nearly naked because she still wears her Halloween Dragon Costume around a good portion of the day. It's very warm so she usually takes her clothes off before she puts it on. Then when it's time to eat or she needs a painting break, she just takes it off and goes about her way. Putting other clothes on is too much of an inconvenience.