Someone Follows Bob Ross’ Tutorial Video In MS Paint, Gets Absolutely Blown Away By What They Created

Bob Ross‘ tutorials can calm your mind and heart. And you don’t need to rob an art supply store to follow these meditative how-to videos, too. Like Ross himself once said, “You can do anything you want to do. This is your world.” Putting his words to the test, Tumblr user mochachild fired up MS Paint and went to work. Later, she couldn’t believe how good the end result she got was. The techniques Ross showed worked wonders on the legendary boredom-killing program. And she wasn’t the only one to think so. After mochachild uploaded her work online, it received over 342K notes on Tumblr.

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Tumblr user mochachild followed Bob Ross’ tutorial video in MS Paint, and the picture she ended up with blew her away

Someone Follows Bob Ross' Tutorial Video In MS Paint, Gets Absolutely Blown Away By What They Created

Image credits: Bob Ross

Someone Follows Bob Ross' Tutorial Video In MS Paint, Gets Absolutely Blown Away By What They Created

Image credits: Bob Ross

For those unfamiliar with Bob Ross’ public television show — how dare you! — The Joy of Painting consisted largely of Ross demonstrating the beauty that is landscape painting. Usually, he painted mountains and trees and streams, all the while sharing incredibly zen knowledge through his soothing voice. His videos were part art instruction, part tranquil wisdom, perfect for those who are obsessed with ASMR.

She couldn’t believe how good the end result looked

Someone Follows Bob Ross' Tutorial Video In MS Paint, Gets Absolutely Blown Away By What They Created

So someone explained the magic behind it

Someone Follows Bob Ross' Tutorial Video In MS Paint, Gets Absolutely Blown Away By What They Created

Image credits: mochachild

If you want to give it a go, here’s the video mochachild followed

Image credits: Bob Ross

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Someone Follows Bob Ross' Tutorial Video In MS Paint, Gets Absolutely Blown Away By What They Created

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Selty 5 years ago

Every day is a good day when you paint

28points

Sinkvenice 5 years ago

I'm English and even though I know who he is, we unfortunately didn't have his show over here. I'm only 34 seconds in to the video and I already think he's terrific, he's a joy to watch.

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Shiona Collman 5 years ago

I'm English and my nana had Bob Ross on all the time during the 90s, i mostly watched him when i was feeling ill; he was - and still is - the best medicine when you're not quite yourself! I can't comment on which channel it might have been on, but it was definitely available over here :) Legend. R.I.P. Bob!

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Hans Felsh (TheRealMoleman) 5 years ago

Every single episode is available for free on Youtube. Enjoy.

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Bored Fox 5 years ago

I also learned about Bob Ross couple of years ago. His TV shows probably were never broadcasted here in Finland.

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Night Owl 5 years ago (edited)

You can wach him on ARD-alpha (a free, public German channel, but Bob Ross isn't synchronized on it) every day, on weekdays at 5:30 and 0:30 and on Saturdays and Sundays at 5:30 and somewhere between 1:00 and 3:00 ... or simply go wach him on YouTube

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Daniel Monaco 4 years ago

Bob Ross is lauded over here in America because he truly, TRULY believed everyone should try painting and the arts. He broadcast for free over PBS and so many young artists and designers who grew up in poverty started their careers watching Bob Ross.

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Ed Souza 5 years ago

Bob Ross was just a cool chill guy. I still watch his videos.

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Selty 5 years ago

Every day is a good day when you paint

28points

Sinkvenice 5 years ago

I'm English and even though I know who he is, we unfortunately didn't have his show over here. I'm only 34 seconds in to the video and I already think he's terrific, he's a joy to watch.

27points