Jeremy Davia he doesn’t get the recognition because he is nothing like Bob, two completely different personalities. The public obviously preferred Bob, and his more soothing and caring personality than Will. It is the way the world works. Neither of them invented this technique, neither of them did anything unique In Painting, but Bob was different in that he was calming and soothing and that attracted viewers, 90% of the viewers watching Bob tuned in to watch bob, and not paint along, that’s a fact you can look up. But I doubt you do any research before you speak.
Michael actually he got a lot of recognition including an Emmy. I remember him well from my youth and I loved watching him before Bob learned from him. Bill’s personality was fiery, energized and warm and Bob’s was soothing and warm. I like the saying “Bill in the morning and Bob at bedtime.” For Bill too there was a barrier where language was concerned. His English was excellent but his accent was heavy. Whether we like it or not there is a prejudice in our country with certain accents and a tendency to gravitate to those who speak the way we do. It was difficult to get ahead as a popular, public personality with a heavy German (in his case Prussian) accent. Even now I see comments everywhere that mock Bill’s accent to one degree or another. I personally love it but there are many who would likely never give him a chance.
Wow I never realised where Bob Ross got all his tips and a lot of his sayings from! I think the thing was with Bill is he didn't have English as his mother tongue and struggled sometimes to express it in English. But the guy is a top man and his technique was brilliant! Einfach wunderbar
I agree with you 100%. Something tells me that had Bill spoken perfect English we may have never heard of Bob. There would have been no need. Nevertheless, I'm glad we have them both.
Yeah but you ain't doing no Albert Beirstadt painting in a 30 minute show. The cool thing about Bill and Bob's technique is you can add as much or as little detail as you want. You can make it super realistic like Albert but you will be putting many days into or you can get a damn good landscape in 30 minutes.
"I can handle mistakes...Let me make the mistakes, so that you don't have to". The generosity of this man is overwhelming. In life in general, one day, you get to the point where you can handle making mistakes freely and not caring, you have it made my friend. Life lessons learned, in painting classes.
Sukran Namoglu he wasn’t “inspired” by Bill - Bob Ross was TAUGHT by Bill. Bob Ross has never done wet on wet painting until he learned one on one from Bill Alexander.
Oh thank you so much I am in my mid sixties and learning how to paint with oils. What a gem you are and such a joy to watch. You have truly lifted my spirits and enthusiasm. Cheers from Western Australia. Marie
Bob stated he learned from Bill. Never once did he try to claim he created this. Also he loved and respected his mentor very much but he also loved teaching painting. It's not a contest
I finally found this gentleman for the life of me i couldn’t remember his name. I used to watch him when i was a kid. I used to love painting cuz of him (William Alexander). Everyone would tell me the guys name is Bob Ross I would say no. It was a guy that he taught Bob Roas, sounded like the terminator. Lol. I would love his passion when he painted!!!!! Thanks for putting this up and brought back amazing memories. Thank you so much!!!
"I vill... I vill...... " hahahha he's mumbling the whole time about how he feels about the mountains and so on. Now we can see from where Bob got his "we don't make mistakes" line.
Yeah guys, 'listen to papa'...this guy's a hoot. He was so upset about what Bob did to him...I don't think if he were to somehow see our messages, he would be impressed by anything Bob said. I know I'm not. Good heavens guys, can you imagine waking up to views like this: www.hellobc.com/stories/ski-bcs-powder-highway-hot-springs-and-mountain-towns/ No wonder he paints mountains all the time.
I really like Bob Ross, but it’s hard not to notice just how many of his techniques and catchphrases came directly from Bill. Bob was more a reinvention of a mellower Bill than a new creation.
"You can´t make misstakes, if you do it right!" No shit? :D That beeing said, I hope I can progress beyond making misstake after misstake while painting… 15 years painting AND STILL I can´t even get the simpliest things right...
Keep tryink , und wan day yor missstakes vil bee less ronk and happier , and zen anozzer day , zey vil bee verry happee and hardlee ronk , and zen , oll of ze sudden , du vilst find out how eezee it ist and all vil bee rite !
Imagine: it's mid 1980's, you are sitting at home watching this on some local station. You see THIS and the painter sais: "Come over 1 month for classes" . Oh boy... my letter would be posted even before his painting was over, hihihi. You then wake up in 2021 knowing this offer was a looooong time ago. Uff 😭 Maybe younger viewers even ask themselfs "what is a letter?" 😄 Anyway: thank you Alexanderart and Bill of course 🙏🙏
Wayne Burks Yes, theirs are especially thick, but pretty much all oil paint that hasn’t been thinned with a medium or a solvent won’t slosh off a palette.
I've known Mr Ross for 30 years now , but Mr Alexander was never aired in NL . I can't say i like one more than the other : they're both quite inspiring .
Joe Jusko and so was Bob. Bill, even though he taught Bob, was then jealous of his success. That, in my opinion, makes Bob better because he was never jealous of anybody and also painted in such a happy manner.
Bob Ross was actually a master painter in traditional art. He just didn't enjoy it. But wet on wet gave Ross a sense of joy. And you have to remember Ross was also purposely using overly bright colors and simplified concepts so that beginners could follow along. I agree that wet on wet Alexander was better than Ross, but Ross was a teacher, Alexander just wasn't a teacher.
Bill was a man who knew how to live life to the fullest. He made me into a darn good artist. After my wife passed away, Bill's words kept me strong. I was able to see the better tomorrow.
I never thought about it before but bob Ross’s paintings are extremely good but Alexander’s paintings given the same amount of time are much more crisper. While Bob is more charismatic William is much more progressive to learning this technique.
Thomas Brooksbank I disagree. Bob’s paintings do look a little better, but there isn’t a large difference. And just so you know, I’m talking about the painting themselves and not the personalities behind them.
I used to love watching him on PBS when I was a lot younger. He would say, 'I will, I will, I will and then concentrate on the painting. So sweet! I bought his 'How to' book that came with paint and pallet knife and then gave it to my niece later who also loves to paint.
I watched him all the time when I was younger. My family used to laugh about me watching the German man painting "almighty trees" and "powerful mountains." I really enjoyed this show.
Ruby Kapture lolllll good joke. They’re completely different in terms of personality, one was soft and happy, while the other was a little more extreme.
Bob Ross took from Bill Alexander, Joan Kowalski took from Bob Ross. He who lives by the sword will die by the sword. Was a fan of Bill not Bob. That being said, Joan is, by far, the very worst of the bunch. Bob was more like Joan's pawn, but took from Bill as well, imo.
I’m not going to argue who is better but I have to ask. Isn’t the point of teaching someone something to allow them to become successful? It seems stupid that Alexander is mad at Ross for copying as he taught him? Why teach if you won’t let them use it? Ross even says Alexander deserved credit for teaching him.
That’s the first time I see him. (Thanks Kelly for telling the story of how it came to be that Bob Ross copied him th-cam.com/video/uoBPnzyREaI/w-d-xo.html ). As a German I find his accent so funny (8:59 „Yu must always denk“; 12:38 „people who do nat paint would denk“). Also I already loved him for using the word „hypnotize“ in the beginning, and his hypnotic way of speaking. It’s just great, discovering that before there were ASMRtists there was Bob Ross, and before Bob Ross, there was William Alexander (Edit: after watching one more I have to say that now I see the differences more than the similarities; guess Alexander wasn’t as much ASMR as I had hoped for)! Oh that sweet self-hypnosis by watching people do stuff on the screen... and their own sing-sang and rhythm. Can you imagine how mesmerizing it must have been when cinema was first invented? There was no sound but the noise that the projector made in the dark, and maybe the sounds of your fellow audience breathing and holding their breath with the ebb and flow of events on the screen... - god, now I need to find a video with real movie-projector noise in it... - (ASMR-addiction: next thing to get into the ICD-code-books? ;-) ) Edit: after thinking about the origin of the word „mesmerize“, I might have to go even further back when thinking about the hypnotic qualities of watching people do stuff in circumstances of high concentration and focus in the dark of a room... - maybe I shouldn’t have stopped going to church 20 years ago (- and cinema for that matter). I always thought ASMR was the flip-side of porn (- delivering the careful attention), but maybe ASMR is the flip-side of not going to church and cinema and theaters anymore... - ok, maybe I should just do it right and go right back to telling stories around campfires in caves and people doing cave-paintings...
26:27 „Tell yourself how good you are! ... Oh Boy, oh boy... and I giggle, and I giggle, and with giggeling you create the almighty painting... - see? There you are, there you are.“
Watching this man on public television every afternoon in 1980 was my inspiration to go to an art University! Bob Ross? Nawww.. I will always be a William fan! Bobs like a perpetual stoner... lol
I agree, i see a great difference, and Bob Ross is a further degradation for me, yet William was still a real artist, who definitely started painted from life,in a traditional (post impressionistic) way, i guess!
Same here. Patton obviously exaggerated things for comedic effect, but William Alexander does get a bit aggressive with the brush! "And add a little darm brown paint here fpr the mountainside....beautiful little mountainside...very good, and........my third wife was a BITCH!"
As he painted in the beautiful clouds claiming they're a mistake, I started to sink in deep reflective thoughts if we humans were a mistake. We're the spoilers of Earth/life. The oops of our creator. The spoiled brat last child of evolution.
You are correct on soooo many levels. Well said. I've said many times, that "We're supposed to be the most intelligent creatures on this planet, and many times you'd never know it."
Super! I like it when he says he will do it like he did it at home. That's the way painter really start, maybe with a messy palette with remnants from the last painting session. I totally can identify with this method!! :-D
I watched these in the early 80s with my mother and we loved him! We always loved “The Mighty Fan Brush to FIRE IT IN!!” He was original and fun. I remember watching and seeing a mountain just pop out of nowhere. I am not going to comment on Ross because he doesnt deserve it. W.Alexander was great, original and i would love to buy one of his original.
being born in the 90s, i had never heard of him and heard of Bob Ross in passing. it’s crazy how much he copied him, the sayings, the screen, the positivity. it’s really sad
After reading the comments, and learning the story of "steeling" the style and manner of Bill Alexander by Bob Ross, i could say that, actually, Bob Ross did what Bill Alexander did toward his teachers - he just make a show from a what he was taught by somebody who never had an idea that the painting process might be a show. ( in my Academy of Arts in former Soviet Union our teachers did not encourage us, students, to paint "lightly", and it was a very serious warning against such things, as pallete knife techniques in such style, because of the temptation to "spiral down" as an artist, if you would do such things all the time. It really kills an Artist inside an artist. )
I’m just now reading more about where Ross learned his skill and I think I scarcely remember seeing Alexander before. I read he and Ross eventually had a falling out which his a shame because both are important, whereas Ross seemed to connect better with the audience in his style. Alexander falsely claimed he “invented” this technique of oil painting but he didn’t, although he did kind of develop the happy painting idea. But Ross took it and developed it further, simplifying it into a cultural phenomenon. Alexander might’ve even been a better artist but Ross developed the language of this kind of painting and probably just never cared enough to develop it past television. There’s more to life than painting alone
This man is truly a joy. It’s a pity he does not get the recognition that Bob Ross does because Bill is the original master. What a beautiful person.
Jeremy Davia he doesn’t get the recognition because he is nothing like Bob, two completely different personalities. The public obviously preferred Bob, and his more soothing and caring personality than Will. It is the way the world works. Neither of them invented this technique, neither of them did anything unique In Painting, but Bob was different in that he was calming and soothing and that attracted viewers, 90% of the viewers watching Bob tuned in to watch bob, and not paint along, that’s a fact you can look up. But I doubt you do any research before you speak.
he came with the skill and not the personality. Bob had something special that others didn’t have.
I appreciate both of them
Michael actually he got a lot of recognition including an Emmy. I remember him well from my youth and I loved watching him before Bob learned from him.
Bill’s personality was fiery, energized and warm and Bob’s was soothing and warm. I like the saying “Bill in the morning and Bob at bedtime.”
For Bill too there was a barrier where language was concerned. His English was excellent but his accent was heavy. Whether we like it or not there is a prejudice in our country with certain accents and a tendency to gravitate to those who speak the way we do. It was difficult to get ahead as a popular, public personality with a heavy German (in his case Prussian) accent. Even now I see comments everywhere that mock Bill’s accent to one degree or another. I personally love it but there are many who would likely never give him a chance.
Alexander taught Bob Ross how to paint.
Wow I never realised where Bob Ross got all his tips and a lot of his sayings from! I think the thing was with Bill is he didn't have English as his mother tongue and struggled sometimes to express it in English. But the guy is a top man and his technique was brilliant! Einfach wunderbar
I agree with you 100%. Something tells me that had Bill spoken perfect English we may have never heard of Bob. There would have been no need. Nevertheless, I'm glad we have them both.
John Bruce
Yes!!
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@@D.Antony 🙌 👏 🙏 🤝
"Even if you think there is a mistake, there is no mistake, you see. Now I got the nicest sky in the world, which started from a almighty mistake."
No mistake, just happy accident
Love his paintings
"You can not make mistakes if you do it right." That's the best piece of life wisdom I've ever heard.
But seriously, though, I love this guy.
MigeMaur
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same))
Bob: When I left you I was but the learner, now I am the happy little master
Bill: Only a master of Afros, Bob.
Bill Alexander learned a whole lot of pointers from Albert Beirdstat. Now HE was a MASTER PAINTER.
Yeah but you ain't doing no Albert Beirstadt painting in a 30 minute show. The cool thing about Bill and Bob's technique is you can add as much or as little detail as you want. You can make it super realistic like Albert but you will be putting many days into or you can get a damn good landscape in 30 minutes.
Bierdstat is one of my favorite American west painters from that school. I forget the school's name but there were several famous painters from it.
@@FH-cn3mg Was it the Hudson River School?
@@franm.k.5832 Yes! That was the one.
"I can handle mistakes...Let me make the mistakes, so that you don't have to".
The generosity of this man is overwhelming. In life in general, one day, you get to the point where you can handle making mistakes freely and not caring, you have it made my friend. Life lessons learned, in painting classes.
🙌 👏 🙏 🤝
So he is the one who taught Bob Ross? William is amazing!
Matt Bruce yea but I think they became enemies later
@Kameron Keller nope, Bob did recognized Bill in one episode but later he declared in an interview that Bill is his competitor...so Bill felt betrayed
Yes he did
Ash Darkness dude how r they enemies or maybe he did beat him up?
Well he’s certainly eccentric
One of my lifes regrets: Not meeting him in person.
I've watched him for almost 40 years at this point.
Wait a sec,,, Bob Ross was a master sergeant who was inspired by a 60 year old German in the 70s?
Steven Cooley ironic right? But, that's what peace is all about.
Bob Ross was inspired by Alexander and Alexander got mad and Bob said that he is thankful but bill did not say anything he just complained tho 🤨
Sukran Namoglu he wasn’t “inspired” by Bill - Bob Ross was TAUGHT by Bill. Bob Ross has never done wet on wet painting until he learned one on one from Bill Alexander.
Bob Ross got the attention but it was William who he learned from and William was the master.
Bob ross is a fake!!! He stole this guys entire style
Oh thank you so much I am in my mid sixties and learning how to paint with oils. What a gem you are and such a joy to watch. You have truly lifted my spirits and enthusiasm. Cheers from Western Australia. Marie
Bob learned from Bill but he also took Bill's words....eg., "the almighty knife...etc.
And a lot of happy things
Bob stated he learned from Bill. Never once did he try to claim he created this. Also he loved and respected his mentor very much but he also loved teaching painting. It's not a contest
Wow His personality is the opposite of his student Bob Ross. They are like yin and yang.
His mountains are simply amazing.
That's the truth. The best mountains I've ever seen!
he first said he wasn't going to do snowy mountains and then.... autopilot takes over. hahaha
Bill started it all on TV, what a beautiful person
I finally found this gentleman for the life of me i couldn’t remember his name.
I used to watch him when i was a kid.
I used to love painting cuz of him (William Alexander). Everyone would tell me the guys name is Bob Ross I would say no. It was a guy that he taught Bob Roas, sounded like the terminator. Lol.
I would love his passion when he painted!!!!!
Thanks for putting this up and brought back amazing memories. Thank you so much!!!
Bill is so full of life, a true appreciator of life. What a wonderful person.
@@lettyfonseca4462 I've seen Ross, but I don't think Ross's teacher, Bill , is any worse than his student.
Bill writes, more colorfully and in detail!
"I vill... I vill...... " hahahha he's mumbling the whole time about how he feels about the mountains and so on. Now we can see from where Bob got his "we don't make mistakes" line.
Yeah guys, 'listen to papa'...this guy's a hoot. He was so upset about what Bob did to him...I don't think if he were to somehow see our messages, he would be impressed by anything Bob said. I know I'm not. Good heavens guys, can you imagine waking up to views like this: www.hellobc.com/stories/ski-bcs-powder-highway-hot-springs-and-mountain-towns/ No wonder he paints mountains all the time.
The mountains look so good
I really like Bob Ross, but it’s hard not to notice just how many of his techniques and catchphrases came directly from Bill. Bob was more a reinvention of a mellower Bill than a new creation.
9:33 already the mountains are amazing in just silhouette form with the foggy base. It looks like mist coming off water.
InstaBlaster...
LOL So good! 18:00 "Listen to papa!" :-D
14:18 ! Look at those mountains! That looks like snowy peaks to me. Broken up snowy peaks. Or maybe the mountain is just rocks that are very light.
I used to watch this every Saturday with my late Brother inlaw who was a really good artist. I was just a young child now I'm almost 55.
I did find an instruction book from season V for cheap at a local pawn shop. But the price sticker from Aaron Brothers was still there.
Love Bob Ross but Bill is the man mit de mighty brush. Love the theme song too.
William is without doubt a better mountain painter then Bob. That mountain looks so realistic!
"You can´t make misstakes, if you do it right!"
No shit? :D
That beeing said, I hope I can progress beyond making misstake after misstake while painting… 15 years painting AND STILL I can´t even get the simpliest things right...
Keep tryink , und wan day yor missstakes vil bee less ronk and happier , and zen anozzer day , zey vil bee verry happee and hardlee ronk , and zen , oll of ze sudden , du vilst find out how eezee it ist and all vil bee rite !
Or... you can think that there are no mistake, just happy accidents! I'm sure you've heard it before lol
God I love bills sence of humour, "today we are gonna do mountains. I have people writing me asking how the hell do you get that right"?
Imagine: it's mid 1980's, you are sitting at home watching this on some local station. You see THIS and the painter sais: "Come over 1 month for classes" .
Oh boy... my letter would be posted even before his painting was over, hihihi.
You then wake up in 2021 knowing this offer was a looooong time ago. Uff 😭
Maybe younger viewers even ask themselfs "what is a letter?" 😄
Anyway: thank you Alexanderart and Bill of course 🙏🙏
How in the world does he swing that palette around and NOT get paint all over his shirt.?
Jim Widener it's very thick.
The Power of Practice and Experience prevents such (un)happy Accidentz ;o)
Oil paints are very thick (like peanut butter) and do stick to the pallette. They aren’t thin or splashy like watercolours.
@@felixmakesart not all oil paints are that thick. Only Bill's and Bob's . Well they are specially formulated for the wet on wet technique
Wayne Burks Yes, theirs are especially thick, but pretty much all oil paint that hasn’t been thinned with a medium or a solvent won’t slosh off a palette.
Bob Ross was a fantastic artist but nobody can make mountains like Alexander.
I love this man. He is genuine. It’s a shame Bob copied Mr. Alexander’s persona, somewhat. I lost respect for Bob.
He didn't invent wet on wet but he did popularized it.
Those stinkin' 1970s videcon cameras!
I wish they had 3 chip cameras back then, this would look amazing.
tnx, loved this guy back in the days of my youth. Great to find here so I can "try again". WEISS!
He inspired me when I was a youngster ..I still try ! It's fun .
I've known Mr Ross for 30 years now , but Mr Alexander was never aired in NL . I can't say i like one more than the other : they're both quite inspiring .
Bill will always be the Master and Ross will always be the student. This man was amazing.
Joe Jusko and so was Bob. Bill, even though he taught Bob, was then jealous of his success. That, in my opinion, makes Bob better because he was never jealous of anybody and also painted in such a happy manner.
Bob Ross was actually a master painter in traditional art. He just didn't enjoy it. But wet on wet gave Ross a sense of joy. And you have to remember Ross was also purposely using overly bright colors and simplified concepts so that beginners could follow along.
I agree that wet on wet Alexander was better than Ross, but Ross was a teacher, Alexander just wasn't a teacher.
@@TheChristianNomad Alexander literally taught classes for years before being on TV. Educate yourself.
It doesn't matter if you dislike his techniques, Bill Alexander was such a joyful person - you have to love him!
🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 Why can´t just everyone be so joyful . . . .
not as jovial as Bob Ross "I paint mountain landscape for mother Russia....yes"?
I used to watch him on TV when I was a kid. Bob Ross wasn’t famous yet…….but he learned the “wet on wet” oil technique from Bill Alexander. 👍🏻
Beautiful painting ... what a happy man ... I really enjoyed watching him paint!
Bill was a man who knew how to live life to the fullest. He made me into a darn good artist. After my wife passed away, Bill's words kept me strong. I was able to see the better tomorrow.
He's sooo smart and fun
My dad seeing me watch Bob Ross: Did you know happy little tree is from William Alexander?
Me: *WHAT?*
SAME. i’m speechless by how much bob ross ripped him off
I never thought about it before but bob Ross’s paintings are extremely good but Alexander’s paintings given the same amount of time are much more crisper. While Bob is more charismatic William is much more progressive to learning this technique.
Thomas Brooksbank I disagree. Bob’s paintings do look a little better, but there isn’t a large difference. And just so you know, I’m talking about the painting themselves and not the personalities behind them.
Mississippi Mudpie26 no, I don’t mean Bill’s are better. Yeah I’m gonna go get some chicken and some chips.
Thomas Brooksbank
Bob Ross is a student of this guy, Alexander))
it's honestly a stylistic difference
Wonderful mountain!!!!!!!! excellent work !!!!!!!!!!!💞💕👍👍💕💕💕👍👍👍👍
I wonder how many of these comments will say the exact same thing, "You know this guy did this before Bob Ross". Who cares!! It's ok to enjoy both
Great teacher. Excellent work
Sencillamente insuperable y espectacular,no hay nada más perfecto que la naturaleza,y en este dibujo insuperable,Felicidades
How this was not spoofed by SCTV or SNL is surprising. Great material
Anyone else feel like Gru from Despicable Me is based on this guy? 😂 Awesome mountains, btw!
I grew up and learned so much about painting from him!
Thank you so much Todd !!!!!!!!! Let's fire the mighty stroke!
I watched Bill Alexander when I was young and I still think he's the greatest.
I never clean up my palette too I use it again for the next time
Lol
I used to love watching him on PBS when I was a lot younger. He would say, 'I will, I will, I will and then concentrate on the painting. So sweet! I bought his 'How to' book that came with paint and pallet knife and then gave it to my niece later who also loves to paint.
I can’t get that mighty song out of my brain!!
To be honest firstly i tought its just a Bob Ross parody. I admire Bill Alexander and think he was a great painter by the way.
Yea I like Bob Ross but I very much like Bill also....I love Bills landscapes
Bob Ross: Okay, let's go over here, and pick up some Titanium Hwhite.
William Alexander: I need VITE! I need VITE!
I watched him all the time when I was younger. My family used to laugh about me watching the German man painting "almighty trees" and "powerful mountains." I really enjoyed this show.
Honestly, you may have taught Bob Ross how to paint but he did one thing better and that was use his voice to attract others to watch him to relax
This man has so much more personality than his pupil.
Ruby Kapture lolllll good joke. They’re completely different in terms of personality, one was soft and happy, while the other was a little more extreme.
Bob Ross took from Bill Alexander, Joan Kowalski took from Bob Ross. He who lives by the sword will die by the sword. Was a fan of Bill not Bob. That being said, Joan is, by far, the very worst of the bunch. Bob was more like Joan's pawn, but took from Bill as well, imo.
Bill paints fast and aggressively but yet the result is good
I used to love his Prussian accent
I’m not going to argue who is better but I have to ask. Isn’t the point of teaching someone something to allow them to become successful? It seems stupid that Alexander is mad at Ross for copying as he taught him? Why teach if you won’t let them use it? Ross even says Alexander deserved credit for teaching him.
My left ear 😌 my right 😡
Sorry, I’ve never been a fan of Bill Alexander. He’s much too Germanic, rough and tough for my taste.And he always looks ready to bite off your head 😬
That’s the first time I see him. (Thanks Kelly for telling the story of how it came to be that Bob Ross copied him th-cam.com/video/uoBPnzyREaI/w-d-xo.html ).
As a German I find his accent so funny (8:59 „Yu must always denk“; 12:38 „people who do nat paint would denk“).
Also I already loved him for using the word „hypnotize“ in the beginning, and his hypnotic way of speaking. It’s just great, discovering that before there were ASMRtists there was Bob Ross, and before Bob Ross, there was William Alexander (Edit: after watching one more I have to say that now I see the differences more than the similarities; guess Alexander wasn’t as much ASMR as I had hoped for)! Oh that sweet self-hypnosis by watching people do stuff on the screen... and their own sing-sang and rhythm.
Can you imagine how mesmerizing it must have been when cinema was first invented? There was no sound but the noise that the projector made in the dark, and maybe the sounds of your fellow audience breathing and holding their breath with the ebb and flow of events on the screen... - god, now I need to find a video with real movie-projector noise in it... - (ASMR-addiction: next thing to get into the ICD-code-books? ;-) )
Edit: after thinking about the origin of the word „mesmerize“, I might have to go even further back when thinking about the hypnotic qualities of watching people do stuff in circumstances of high concentration and focus in the dark of a room... - maybe I shouldn’t have stopped going to church 20 years ago (- and cinema for that matter). I always thought ASMR was the flip-side of porn (- delivering the careful attention), but maybe ASMR is the flip-side of not going to church and cinema and theaters anymore... - ok, maybe I should just do it right and go right back to telling stories around campfires in caves and people doing cave-paintings...
My Sweedish uncle loved this guy. He was kind of like Bill. Energetic and fun loving guy I miss him dearly rest in peace Uncle Ellis...😇
26:27 „Tell yourself how good you are! ... Oh Boy, oh boy... and I giggle, and I giggle, and with giggeling you create the almighty painting... - see? There you are, there you are.“
I watch an episode of Bill or Bob every night before bed. They are both so wholesome that it helps me forget the uglyness of the modern world..
Watching this man on public television every afternoon in 1980 was my inspiration to go to an art University! Bob Ross? Nawww.. I will always be a William fan! Bobs like a perpetual stoner... lol
I agree, i see a great difference, and Bob Ross is a further degradation for me, yet William was still a real artist, who definitely started painted from life,in a traditional (post impressionistic) way, i guess!
I fully agree with both of you
patton oswalt sent me, this guy is amazing.
Same here. Patton obviously exaggerated things for comedic effect, but William Alexander does get a bit aggressive with the brush! "And add a little darm brown paint here fpr the mountainside....beautiful little mountainside...very good, and........my third wife was a BITCH!"
I think Bob Ross is more like a perfectionist. But the mountain he painted. Its like real, am i right? Bravo Bill.
Not surprised about Bob being a perfectionist as he [supposedly?] was difficult to work with
As he painted in the beautiful clouds claiming they're a mistake, I started to sink in deep reflective thoughts if we humans were a mistake. We're the spoilers of Earth/life. The oops of our creator. The spoiled brat last child of evolution.
You are correct on soooo many levels. Well said. I've said many times, that "We're supposed to be the most intelligent creatures on this planet, and many times you'd never know it."
Thank you very much for sharing your great work. Very beautiful.
7:08 tatsch mo reeheed
I would go to Canada to learn under you, I know it's not possible but at least we still have the videos and books.
His favorite color has to be Prussian Blue.
This is AWESOME!!!!
The closed caption is a bunch of jibberish...makes no sense...
Super! I like it when he says he will do it like he did it at home. That's the way painter really start, maybe with a messy palette with remnants from the last painting session. I totally can identify with this method!! :-D
I used to live in Powell River when he was there and never knew it. CRIKEY!
I watched these in the early 80s with my mother and we loved him! We always loved “The Mighty Fan Brush to FIRE IT IN!!” He was original and fun. I remember watching and seeing a mountain just pop out of nowhere. I am not going to comment on Ross because he doesnt deserve it. W.Alexander was great, original and i would love to buy one of his original.
Mark Laydon great yes, but not original. This technique was invented centuries ago.
being born in the 90s, i had never heard of him and heard of Bob Ross in passing. it’s crazy how much he copied him, the sayings, the screen, the positivity. it’s really sad
After reading the comments, and learning the story of "steeling" the style and manner of Bill Alexander by Bob Ross, i could say that, actually, Bob Ross did what Bill Alexander did toward his teachers - he just make a show from a what he was taught by somebody who never had an idea that the painting process might be a show. ( in my Academy of Arts in former Soviet Union our teachers did not encourage us, students, to paint "lightly", and it was a very serious warning against such things, as pallete knife techniques in such style, because of the temptation to "spiral down" as an artist, if you would do such things all the time. It really kills an Artist inside an artist. )
I found your comment the first serious analysis about wet on wet. I never had art lessons, but would love to master palette knife painting. Thank you
The opening music is always a fun throwback
great! guy i admire is spirit. with is mighty art good. instructor. Lovely work.
He is basicly my grandfather! A great artist,with an accent that I love!
I’m just now reading more about where Ross learned his skill and I think I scarcely remember seeing Alexander before. I read he and Ross eventually had a falling out which his a shame because both are important, whereas Ross seemed to connect better with the audience in his style. Alexander falsely claimed he “invented” this technique of oil painting but he didn’t, although he did kind of develop the happy painting idea. But Ross took it and developed it further, simplifying it into a cultural phenomenon.
Alexander might’ve even been a better artist but Ross developed the language of this kind of painting and probably just never cared enough to develop it past television. There’s more to life than painting alone
Bill invented the Magic/Liquid White and the palette knife we all know today.
Dude, thank you so much for posting these!!
There is no originality when it comes to art, only inspiration.
6:22 beat the devil out of it.
This guy walked so Bob Ross could run
Patton Oswalt brought me here. :)
Beautiful painting .I loved to watch u paint.
Yes! Another one.
This man was awesome
Wow! Bob Ross really did copy him. Not only his exact style, but he even copied his words.
Ross was his student.
Bob Ross took all his ideas from here...