My First Art Teacher
Bob Ross was my art teacher growing up, so painting has been at the core of what I do for most of my life. He taught me to paint, but at the time I didn’t know the difference between watercolours and oil paints, so I was attempting these grand mountainscapes with odd results.
Now I’m a materials fiend. I’m constantly testing various paints and substrates to figure out what will work and what will make a cool effect to use later on. Those early days of attempting to lay watercolour on like oil paint make me laugh.
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