What a lovely man.

He will always be missed. I just can't get over to this day that he is gone. But I thankful that our PBS station still carries his program. If not I'd miss his happy accidents and I miss him sticking a BIG tree right in front of what I thought was perfect set bushes and trees.


Don't steal, the government doesn't like the competition.

The world seems a dimmer, sadder place without him.

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"If stagnation is the ailment, and change the cure...why does puppetmaster where gloves?"

A class act that will make an impact for years to come. I still watch his shows every week and he sooths my troubles away.

"God Bless my friend"

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Certainly one of the better humans of his time. RIP Bob, we miss you.

Today is his birthday.

Hoping for a cure for lymphoma and all other cancers in the near future.

Rest in peace.

The lone neon lights and the ache of the ocean
And the fire that was starting to go out...

Amen, dvdpreec! He did so much to help people learn to paint and he made a tremendous effort to helping people relax with his presentation. I enjoyed his shows and he lifted my spirit! Miss him very much!

Bob might have been fantastic, I don't know, and neither do you from watching him perform on a TV show.

But his paintings were utter dreck (garbage), and both Bob and his mentor Bill Alexander knew that. There is a reason Bob could paint a season's worth of art in two days and it's not because he was magical.

The painting style was designed to help sell art supplies to people who had never learned to draw properly so they could create "instant landscapes". Notice that he never paints any people or objects other than very crude "cabins". That's because the paintings have no real perspective or proportional drawing structure.

The final results are suitable to decorate motel rooms and home basements, but they are far from fabulous.