Face painting Bob Ross style…

Posted on Saturday, January 19th, 2008 at 4:02 am

For those of you unfamiliar with the awesomeness that is Bob Ross, you might want to go here to learn more about him. I (Shelly) have a t-shirt with him on it that I wear a lot around the house and the boys love it. They usually ask me questions about Bob Ross and sometimes even tell him hi. One night this week we showed them a video of Bob Ross online and they, Will in particular, were mesmerized.

So the other night I broke out our possibility box and decided we could do Bob Ross painting. Unfortunately I failed to take pictures of their artwork before putting them in an envelope to send to Pop (Eric’s grandpa) who also is a Bob Ross fan. However, once Walker lost interest in painting (about five minutes into it) Will and I turned to each other as canvasses.

It started with me painting one fan on Will’s face:
and then another:

and then a goatee:

He retaliated by painting my entire face.
(he told me I had to hold still and not smile)

A view of him as he’s painting my face – so intense:

I’m going to ignore any possible symbolism from the red slash on my throat.
He loves me – right?

Voila! An artist is born!!


We did try to paint Walker’s face – but he wasn’t as fond of it. I got 1/2 way through a balloon and he was out of his chair. He came back for a minute and I was able to get a red ‘T’ (for trouble) in Scarlet Letter form. That was about it for him though!

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