This is Bob Ross! He used to host his own show on the PBS called “The Joy of Painting” in the mid 1990s. On this show, he would paint various scenes of nature in all of its grandeur and beauty. Most of these paintings featured the grasslands and forests, with a mountain range far off in the distance. When I was a young boy of 5 years and visited my grandparents, I would tune into reruns of this show. I was mesmerized by his high level of skill in painting and the clear instructions orated by that soothing and calming voice. This led to my huge intrigue in the artistic capture of nature. But another thing that I remembered was that he mostly used light colors to detail nature. Hence, I decided to focus on the darkest elements of nature and explore their connection to the light parts of nature.
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