Mountains

After painting the meadow with acrylic colors, I bought oil colors which are the ones Bob Ross uses in “The joy of painting” show. This time I followed the episode 10 from season 13 of the show, called “Mountain Summit”.

I am very satisfied by the outcome but being a beginner, I faced a lot of difficulties and the painting has a number of errors.

Facts

I used

• the wet-on-wet technique
• oil colors
• 50x80 canvas

Difficulties

• My paintbrushes were not the same as Bob Ross’ ones (size and material) and the paint didn’t apply the way I wanted (I will search for tips and tricks when it comes to buying paintbrushes for oil colors)
• I couldn’t find all the colors listed in the episode and I had to mix mine many times to achieve something similar
• I had such a huge difficulty creating the bushes. I am still not sure what the exact problem was but I believe it is a combination of the following three items:
  • wrong paintbrush
  • very thick paint (according to Bob Ross, thin paint sticks on thick)
  • wrong moves by me (maybe more/less pressure on the paintbrush)
• The mountains, even though they look nice, were so hard to be created with the palette knife. It surely has to do with practice.

Errors

• The tallest mountain has an unnatural curve on its bottom side which doesn’t make sense
• The left side of the mountains ends somewhere behind the trees without a logical explanation (in the episode the trees cover all the left part of the painting)
• The path in the front right section of the painting is a failure. In case you don’t locate it (which is very reasonable), I am talking about the black and gray waterfall that starts at the root of a tree. Yes, that is supposed to be a path.
• In the same part of the painting, the bushes didn’t want to stick at all. I cleaned and re-painted the section at least 3 times.

Resources

Bob Ross - Mountain Summit (Season 13 Episode 10)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kasGRkfkiPM

Bob Ross - Final Reflections (Season 1 Episode 13)
A "must see" episode because it's actually Q&A of what might go wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEQWfszfRlA