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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 9546843, member: 55&quot;]I have one quibble with Bob Ross, and that is his dishonesty. He was a student of William (Bill) Alexander, and for his first two years on TV, freely admitted that. Then he began to claim that he was the originator of all the techniques he used, and denied being influenced at all by Alexander, pointing out that wet-on-wet techniques had been around for hundreds of years.&nbsp; Yes, the technique was not new; but it is a fact that Ross studied with Alexander, and stole freely from his style.</p><p>Bill Alexander was the originator of 1/2 hour PBS shows using wet-on-wet techniques, the first to paint &quot;happy little trees&quot; on TV; many years before Bob Ross. Everything Ross ever did was an imitation of Bill Alexander, including most of his catch-phrases, and the title of his program: Alexander, &quot;the Magic of Oil Painting;&quot; Ross: &quot;the Joy of Painting.&quot; </p><p>Ross actively concealed that fact, and you won&#039;t see any broadcasts of the early shows where he admitted that Alexander had been his teacher.</p><p>And IMHO, Alexander was a far more entertaining personality than Ross.</p><p>(check him out on youtube, for example <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hY1eRUUTps" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hY1eRUUTps" rel="nofollow">Fall River - The Best Way to Learn Oil Painting: Wet-on-Wet with Bill Alexander - YouTube</a>)</p><p>Sorry for the rant.....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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