[copy] Paint some mountains, touch some grass
Everyone needs some Bob Ross quotes to light up their day
April 25, 2023
Every time you practice, you learn more. A tree needs to be your friend if you're going to paint him. Just pretend you are a whisper floating across a mountain.
If these lines aren't straight, your water's going to run right out of your painting and get your floor wet. No worries. No cares. Just float and wait for the wind to blow you around. The first step to doing anything is to believe you can do it. See it finished in your mind before you ever start. You can create beautiful things - but you have to see them in your mind first. How to paint. That's easy. What to paint. That's much harder.
You can create the world you want to see and be a part of. You have that power. In nature, dead trees are just as normal as live trees. That's why I paint - because I can create the kind of world I want - and I can make this world as happy as I want it. Making all those little fluffies that live in the clouds. Let's put some highlights on these little trees. The sun wouldn't forget them.
We start with a vision in our heart, and we put it on canvas. A thin paint will stick to a thick paint. We'll take a little bit of Van Dyke Brown.
Everything's not great in life, but we can still find beauty in it. Isn't that fantastic? You can just push a little tree out of your brush like that. Little trees and bushes grow however makes them happy.
Isn't that fantastic? Isn't it fantastic that you can change your mind and create all these happy things? Here's another little happy bush For the lack of a better word I call them hangy downs. Trees grow in all kinds of ways. They're not all perfectly straight. Not every limb is perfect. Each highlight must have it's own private shadow.
Now we don't want him to get lonely, so we'll give him a little friend. Only think about one thing at a time. Don't get greedy. Talk to trees, look at the birds. Whatever it takes. Put your feelings into it, your heart, it's your world. Just think about these things in your mind - then bring them into your world. It's almost like something out of a fairytale book.