Name of PBS painter in 1980s?
aalu...@webtv.net
who had his own afternoon show in the 1980s? It was on WGBH and I
believe nation wide. He was not a kids painter - not that I recall. Plus
he had a bit of a beard.
All that I recall was him, a canvas and paint for 30 minutes. He
descrbed each step. It was rather interesting.
Uniblab
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Bob Ross in "The Joy of Painting". Great show -- 30 minutes of it could
relax just about anyone.
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Gerry
"Uniblab" <uni...@uniblab.net> wrote:
> <aalu...@webtv.net> wrote in message
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> > A very dead genre - the painting show. Anyone recall a landscape painter
> > who had his own afternoon show in the 1980s? It was on WGBH and I
> > believe nation wide. He was not a kids painter - not that I recall. Plus
> > he had a bit of a beard.
> >
> > All that I recall was him, a canvas and paint for 30 minutes. He
> > descrbed each step. It was rather interesting.
> >
>
> Bob Ross in "The Joy of Painting". Great show -- 30 minutes of it could
> relax just about anyone.
Bob with paint brush and afro hairdo is still appearing almost daily on
one of the many PBS stations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Gerry
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Not too bad, considering that Bob has been painting on that great canvas in the
sky for nine years....
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> <aalu...@webtv.net> wrote in message
> news:24458-40C...@storefull-3315.bay.webtv.net...
> > A very dead genre - the painting show. Anyone recall a landscape painter
> > who had his own afternoon show in the 1980s? It was on WGBH and I
> > believe nation wide. He was not a kids painter - not that I recall. Plus
> > he had a bit of a beard.
> >
> > All that I recall was him, a canvas and paint for 30 minutes. He
> > descrbed each step. It was rather interesting.
> >
>
> Bob Ross in "The Joy of Painting". Great show -- 30 minutes of it could
> relax just about anyone.
>
There were a couple painters. Who was the guy who used "magic white"?
Don't think he had a beard :)
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> <aalu...@webtv.net> wrote in message
> news:24458-40C...@storefull-3315.bay.webtv.net...
> > A very dead genre - the painting show. Anyone recall a landscape painter
> > who had his own afternoon show in the 1980s? It was on WGBH and I
> > believe nation wide. He was not a kids painter - not that I recall. Plus
> > he had a bit of a beard.
> >
> > All that I recall was him, a canvas and paint for 30 minutes. He
> > descrbed each step. It was rather interesting.
> >
>
> Bob Ross in "The Joy of Painting". Great show -- 30 minutes of it could
> relax just about anyone.
I LOVED THAT SHOW! I remember my daughter (then elementary school age) and I
would eagerly await each and every episode. I wish now I had a vcr then and
had taped every episode. :(
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Invid Fan <in...@localnet.com> wrote:
> In article <40c7e4a3$1...@corp.newsgroups.com>, Uniblab
> <uni...@uniblab.net> wrote:
>
> > <aalu...@webtv.net> wrote in message
> > news:24458-40C...@storefull-3315.bay.webtv.net...
> > > A very dead genre - the painting show. Anyone recall a landscape painter
> > > who had his own afternoon show in the 1980s? It was on WGBH and I
> > > believe nation wide. He was not a kids painter - not that I recall. Plus
> > > he had a bit of a beard.
> > >
> > > All that I recall was him, a canvas and paint for 30 minutes. He
> > > descrbed each step. It was rather interesting.
> > >
> >
> > Bob Ross in "The Joy of Painting". Great show -- 30 minutes of it could
> > relax just about anyone.
> >
> There were a couple painters. Who was the guy who used "magic white"?
> Don't think he had a beard :)
Bill Alexander. He always was putting in some "happy" feature.
HWL
Shoof
> news:24458-40C...@storefull-3315.bay.webtv.net...
> > A very dead genre - the painting show. Anyone recall a landscape painter
> > who had his own afternoon show in the 1980s? It was on WGBH and I
> > believe nation wide. He was not a kids painter - not that I recall. Plus
> > he had a bit of a beard.
> >
> > All that I recall was him, a canvas and paint for 30 minutes. He
> > descrbed each step. It was rather interesting.
> >
>
> Bob Ross in "The Joy of Painting". Great show -- 30 minutes of it could
> relax just about anyone.
>
I actually ordered one of his paint kits and bought an easel. Both are still
sitting in my garage.
Elena Shing Ying Shieh
> news:24458-40C...@storefull-3315.bay.webtv.net...
> > A very dead genre - the painting show. Anyone recall a landscape painter
> > who had his own afternoon show in the 1980s? It was on WGBH and I
> > believe nation wide. He was not a kids painter - not that I recall. Plus
> > he had a bit of a beard.
> >
> > All that I recall was him, a canvas and paint for 30 minutes. He
> > descrbed each step. It was rather interesting.
> >
>
> Bob Ross in "The Joy of Painting". Great show -- 30 minutes of it could
> relax just about anyone.
>
>
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God, what a guy HE was (uh, is?)! Reeeeeeally mellow and we ALL KNOW
WHY! lol
Remember 'All About You' starring Louise MacNamara? It was circa-1975.
Another "trippy" show! Somebody pass the bong, yo?! lol
KazamaSmokers
to the pond, where it can provide some shade..."
Gotta love Bob Ross.
Mark McKinney did a hysterical take-off on him on a KITH sketch.
John R Rybock
Bob Ross, "Joy of Painting"
I would suggest checking out TVGuide.com and search for it under your
local listings. It's on regularly here in the midatlantic, and I know
it is in many other places, usually on little college run PBS stations
you probably usually click past.
Jude Cormier
> news:24458-40C...@storefull-3315.bay.webtv.net...
> > A very dead genre - the painting show. Anyone recall a landscape painter
> > who had his own afternoon show in the 1980s? It was on WGBH and I
> > believe nation wide. He was not a kids painter - not that I recall. Plus
> > he had a bit of a beard.
> >
> > All that I recall was him, a canvas and paint for 30 minutes. He
> > descrbed each step. It was rather interesting.
> >
>
> Bob Ross in "The Joy of Painting". Great show -- 30 minutes of it could
> relax just about anyone.
>
>
Michael Black
Are these new shows, or reruns? SOmetimes it's hard to tell with PBS
shows, because they tend to make good use of old material. One of
the "local" PBS stations aired the show up until fairly recently.
Michael
Uniblab
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>
> Remember 'All About You' starring Louise MacNamara? It was circa-1975.
> Another "trippy" show! Somebody pass the bong, yo?! lol
That was part of PBS' "Education in the Classroom" programming, 15-minute
shows that were aired during the school day and appropriate to be seen in
class. At my school, we watched "Inside Out", a dated-looking,
issue-oriented anthology. We also saw "Cover to Cover", in which a current
children's book was read aloud while host John Robbins drew pictures of the
characters. That one was quite good, from what I remember.
Marshall Stacks
As others have replied, it's probably Bob Ross. Good show.
I grew up in Cleveland, OH in the 60s and I vaguely remember a
painting or art show with a guy called "John Nagy" I think? I
recall there was even a John Nagy art kit for sale in department
stores... Was that a national show or was it just C-town?
Joe Coughlin
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>Gerry (Or...@LastOrder.org) writes:
>> In article <40c7e4a3$1...@corp.newsgroups.com>,
>> "Uniblab" <uni...@uniblab.net> wrote:
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>>> <aalu...@webtv.net> wrote in message
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>Are these new shows, or reruns? SOmetimes it's hard to tell with PBS
>shows, because they tend to make good use of old material. One of
>the "local" PBS stations aired the show up until fairly recently.
>
> Michael
They're all reruns. Bob died nine years ago of cancer at the age of
52.
Bob had very simple rules for his painting- rules that can be followed
in everyday life (more or less).
1. It's your world, you can do with it as you please.
2. Every tree needs a friend.
3. There are no mistakes, only "happy accidents"
Words to live by.
His show is, to this day, the best show to watch when you're stressed
while William Alexander's German paint freak out was the worst. :)
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> As others have replied, it's probably Bob Ross. Good show.
>
> I grew up in Cleveland, OH in the 60s and I vaguely remember a
> painting or art show with a guy called "John Nagy" I think? I
> recall there was even a John Nagy art kit for sale in department
> stores... Was that a national show or was it just C-town?
I saw it when I was growing up in New York, so it must have been national.
Wasn't it kind of a drop-in show that aired between other programs? That's
the very vague memory I have of it.
I had one of those John Nagy learn-to-draw kits when I was a kid. I got
really bored trying to draw spheres and shading and went right back to the
immediate gratification of Venus coloring pencils.
pb...
So true...thanks to the glory of film/video we still enjoy his
original technique and have the opportunity to donate funds to
his foundation. Bob just completed a run on Sat. mornings in
L.A. --shared the hour of 5 to 6am with a marvelous Irish water
colorist-- I'm sure they'll be around again. Then there's always
the web site:
http://www.bobross.com/instructional.cfm
pb...
Ubiquitous
aalu...@webtv.net wrote:
>A very dead genre - the painting show. Anyone recall a landscape painter
>who had his own afternoon show in the 1980s? It was on WGBH and I
>believe nation wide. He was not a kids painter - not that I recall. Plus
>he had a bit of a beard.
You mean that hippy with the nappy afro? That was just FREAKY.
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Ubiquitous
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>Remember 'All About You' starring Louise MacNamara? It was circa-1975.
>Another "trippy" show! Somebody pass the bong, yo?! lol
Trippy? I don't remember that show being trippy at all.
Remember the show that opened with "Zippidy Doo-Dah"? I think it featured
some librarian who looked like Mini Pearl...
Ubiquitous
>That was part of PBS' "Education in the Classroom" programming, 15-minute
>shows that were aired during the school day and appropriate to be seen in
>class. At my school, we watched "Inside Out", a dated-looking,
>issue-oriented anthology. We also saw "Cover to Cover", in which a current
>children's book was read aloud while host John Robbins drew pictures of the
>characters. That one was quite good, from what I remember.
Ahh, the memories...
I remember John Robbins did several shows like that. Was he a famous
illustrator or soemthing?
Ubiquitous
hunt...@earthlink.net wrote:
>Mark McKinney did a hysterical take-off on him on a KITH sketch.
I'm pretty sure MADtv did one as well.
Brent McKee
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Jon Gnagy, what a blast from the past! Back in the early 1960s you
knew he was an artist because he had a goatee. He was a staple of
local TV -- the show was syndicated -- and I like to think he made a
mint with those "Learn to Draw" kits. I had one -- didn't help as I
still can't draw a circle without a compass, although I still have the
pencil and the instruction book around here somewhere. I looked him
up in the IMDB. Born in 1906, he had two TV shows "You Are an Artist"
from 1946-1949, and "Learn to Draw" -- which was actually a segment of
"Wonderama" in 1955 and 1956. Gnagy died in 1981, but apparently you
can still get the kits, although they appear to have been repackaged.
http://www.weberart.com/products/art_materials/creative_art_sets/cas_pg1.html
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Mpoconnor7
>one of the many PBS stations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
>
He's been dead about 8 years now, and they still rerun his old shows on PBS. I
have no interest in painting, but it simply fascinating watching Bob Ross throw
a landscape painting together in a half hour. He made it look so easy.
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>
> A very dead genre - the painting show. Anyone recall a landscape painter
> who had his own afternoon show in the 1980s? It was on WGBH and I
> believe nation wide. He was not a kids painter - not that I recall. Plus
> he had a bit of a beard.
>
>
His name is whatever you want it to be in your world... it's a happy
little name!
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A Friend
You mean Bob Ross? Happy little URL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ross
Hunter <>
God rest his soul but he was obviously included as a joke. As good as
a painter he was I don't consider him among the greats when thinking
about Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo or Vincent Van Gogh or even
Andy Warhol LOL!
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> On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 22:48:28 -0400, A Friend <no...@noway.com> wrote:
>
> >In article <4fb92efb-eada-49bd...@googlegroups.com>,
> ><futurem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> They're on did now too
> >
> >
> >You mean Bob Ross? Happy little URL:
> >
> >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ross
> ----
> God rest his soul but he was obviously included as a joke. As good as
> a painter he was I don't consider him among the greats when thinking
> about Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo or Vincent Van Gogh or even
> Andy Warhol LOL!
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Horace LaBadie
Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
have been a long-running show. Of course, he would have had to invent TV
first, which he probably did.
suzeeq
A Friend
wrote:
New York City. It appeared sporadically between 1979 and 1987, the
year of his death.
Invid Fan
>
> >In article <4fb92efb-eada-49bd...@googlegroups.com>,
> ><futurem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> They're on did now too
> >
> >
> >You mean Bob Ross? Happy little URL:
> >
> >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ross
> ----
> God rest his soul but he was obviously included as a joke. As good as
> a painter he was I don't consider him among the greats when thinking
> about Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo or Vincent Van Gogh or even
> Andy Warhol LOL!
>
PBS before him, Bill Alexander. Even bought our dad his painting set as
a gag. Everyone remembers Ross, but Alexander seems forgotten.
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Michael Black
> In article <ojqnna90p0gr7l2bj...@4ax.com>, Hunter
> <buffh...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 22:48:28 -0400, A Friend <no...@noway.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <4fb92efb-eada-49bd...@googlegroups.com>,
>>> <futurem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> They're on did now too
>>>
>>>
>>> You mean Bob Ross? Happy little URL:
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ross
>> ----
>> God rest his soul but he was obviously included as a joke. As good as
>> a painter he was I don't consider him among the greats when thinking
>> about Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo or Vincent Van Gogh or even
>> Andy Warhol LOL!
>>
> I never saw Bob Ross's show, but my family did watch the guy who was on
> PBS before him, Bill Alexander. Even bought our dad his painting set as
> a gag. Everyone remembers Ross, but Alexander seems forgotten.
>
Bob Ross showing how to paint. The afternoons were full of it, if I am
remembering properly.
But we've seen that change. Those small shows that get syndicated from a
specific station seems to have gone. "Educational" becomes Nova and
Frontline, still good shows but not showing how to do specific things.
Is This Old House On still? The Yankee Workshop? THings like that, if
they continue seem stuffed onto very early on the weekend schedule. Or
a subchannel, so they may just survive in perpetuity as reruns.
Michael
Horace LaBadie
> Is This Old House On still? The Yankee Workshop? THings like that, if
> they continue seem stuffed onto very early on the weekend schedule. Or
> a subchannel, so they may just survive in perpetuity as reruns.
line of products. Then there's Hometime, which is almost as old from
WHYY. There are about a hundred cooking shows, most with people I've
never heard of, apart from Ming Tsai and Martha Stewart. And there are
lots of woodworking shows, including The Woodwright's Shop, which is in
it's 34 season, and Tommy Mac, and the so on. And sewing and knitting,
and painting. And travel. And even photography.
anim8rFSK
reruns on Lifetime Television For Women. The This Old House Hour reruns
on PBS.
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Season 34 on May 28, 2015. There were 26 episodes, three different projects.
I assume WGBH will do a 35th season.
>The Yankee Workshop?
The New Yankee Workshop has been out of production since 2008-2009, but
that was on for 21 seasons.
Horace LaBadie
> Guide search finds no occurrences of Yankee Workshop. This Old House
> reruns on Lifetime Television For Women. The This Old House Hour reruns
> on PBS.
ago. I think he's now streaming the show.
Micky DuPree
> There was a time when PBS wsa "educational", in the sense of shows
> like Bob Ross showing how to paint. The afternoons were full of it, if
> I am remembering properly.
>
> But we've seen that change. Those small shows that get syndicated
> from a specific station seems to have gone. "Educational" becomes
> Nova and Frontline, still good shows but not showing how to do
> specific things.
>
> Is This Old House On still? The Yankee Workshop? THings like that,
> if they continue seem stuffed onto very early on the weekend schedule.
> Or a subchannel, so they may just survive in perpetuity as reruns.
Comcast as WGBX Create, which is dominated by various cooking shows, but
also features _This Old House_, _American Woodshop_, _Garden Smart_, and
some travel shows. I don't know if this allows them to flourish, or if
it amounts to a ghettoization of the DIY genre.
-Micky