Newbie just starting out.

TonyM

Just starting my journey into the world of wet on wet painting. My only experience is with painting scale miniature busts (mainly with acrylics). I do have all the Bob Ross tools along with a couple hundred smaller brushes that I use when painting miniatures. I have all the Bob Ross landscape paints and several of the soft BR paints. Along the way, I also have accumulated about 250 tubes of various oil paints by Da Vinci, Gamlin, Grumbacher, Lukas 1862, Sennelier, Soho Urban, Winsor & Newton, and WN Winton. So how did I get here?

Back in 2007ish, I bought my dad the Bob Ross Master Painting set and a bunch of brushes for Christmas. Unfortunately he never got around to using the set before he passed in 2010. Dad gave me the set back before he passed and made me promise to try it out at some point. Well, here we are 12 years later, and I broke out the set and I am going to give this a shot.

Voy Kay

TonyM My sympathy for your dad Tony.

Well, you got the gear allright, that's a first!
Second would be to embrace this community and benefit from all the advice, info, endeavours, risks, fails (happy mistakes) and member's warmth.
Now the third will be so much easier to do after those two, and that is to get started with Bob, or your own creations, and let it loose into our/the world!

Good luck Tony!

Rucifi

I know how you feel Tony before my mom passed she was a big BR fan and was always asking me why I wouldn’t paint like him I was young and said there weren’t enough skulls lol. The best advice I can give you is to just practice, find and start with paintings that only have three colors to five and start with those and you’ll get more confidence as you get going there are some weeks that I put out 2 to 3 paintings and just let them dry which takes a couple of days especially oils, The other thing is always remember that bob painted for years and even when he filmed the show would come in and paint almost 40 paintings in a weekend that’s a lot of practice. Have fun