Thursday, January 3, 2008

Painting "Happy Little Trees"

This week we turned our dining room into an art studio. This photo shows Carmen at work.














We put on a DVD of Bob Ross painting "Days Gone By," one of his many paintings. What took him a half an hour took us more than six hours. We would play a few minutes of the program, hit pause and then try to recreate what he had done, using his signature two-inch brush, one-inch brush, fan brush, Script liner brush and palette knife.







Our friend Abi painting. "Let's give this tree a friend. Everyone needs a friend."



Monica mixing paint, getting ready to add some bushes that "live in her world."














Monica's Finished Painting

Carmen's finished painting


Abi's finished painting












Marcia's Finished Painting

9 comments:

  1. Oh my goodness! I love these! You all did a fantastic job. You're making me want to go get some Bob Ross videos. I do remember the "happy little trees". :)

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  2. I used to love the 'Happy Painter'! You guys really did a great job. The paintings are beautiful.

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  3. Those look awesome! You guys did a fantastic job. I will have to remember this activity for when my kids are older.

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  4. I knew we should have bought these! Maybe for Allison's birthday.

    Great paintings!

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  5. Wow! Those are FANTASTIC!!! What did you use for materials? I'm thinking this would be a fun fun fun thing to do!!!

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  6. HAHAHA!!! You gotta' love Bob Ross! They did an amazing job!

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  7. These turned out very nice. My dh used to turn on Bob Ross every afternoon when he wanted to take a nap. Bob's gentle voice would send Robert into lala land more quickly than anything. Kind of like Mr. Rogers in slo-mo....

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  8. They are all great! So different though, very interesting how you all had your own concepts but the same picture.

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  9. These are wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
    Sandy

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