Best of the Joy of Painting

I would say an indispensable book to own. A clear explanation of the technique with great clear examples from start to finish.

Good book

This book has the most beautiful paintings in it that I have ever seen. I am a beginner painter (painting for 4 months) and there are enough instructions for me to follow to complete a painting. I just completed one of the paintings in this book and it came out beautiful. This book gives me inspiration to also create my own paintings. I have really appreciated the information in the intoduction. There were some things, as a begining painter, that I did not know. I use all of the Bob Ross brushes and palate knives and in his instructions he tells you which one he used to create the effect he is painting. I plan on purchasing more of the Bob Ross books in the future. Right now, I have enough inspiration to create many many more lovely paintings. We have a local County Fair and Peach Days Celebrations here in So. Utah. I plan on entering my paintings is our local competition.

I purchased this book shortly after taking a class in painting the Bob Ross way. The book offers a good explanation of his techniques, and contains many pictures with detailed instructions for painting. The instructions are clear, and easy to follow. It is obvious that many of his painting follow the same general theme, but once you learn the techniques it would be easy to branch out and do your own painting. Having this book means that for the most part you do not need any of the others in the series. I am not an artist, but I found that I get great pleasure from being able to create a painting of my own that looks good. Note: You must be willing to invest some money into buying the Bob Ross brand of paints and brushes to make this technique work well. Also, you need to finish the work in one sitting or it becomes difficult to make the paints do the same thing on a dry surface.

Excellent book in most ways! Sixty of Bob Ross's paintings and instructions on how you can duplicate them. Plus a helpful introduction, (as Bob calls it) on what you need and some of the techinques used throughout. There is one problem though...and it is, relatively speaking, a huge one. You see, obviously, painting is a VISUAL art...and Bob, whose "Joy of Painting' series was a huge sucess, (and, in fact, became a 'cottage industry' for him..painting supplies, brushes, palette knives and so forth) is a very visual teacher. And the this book and (I'd be willing to place a sizable wager on this) any other of his books, (and there are quite a few) cannot possibly protray precisly HOW Bob does it...(and in his shows, made it look staggeringly easy. He made us belive, and I mean really, really belive, that any klutz could turn out a wonderful painting, just like he did. Can you? I'm not sure. I am a well known klutz with absolutly no artistic talent in my body. Not Bob Ross at all. I am really leaning toward trying this myself...Regardless of my comments, this is a wonderful book, with equally wonderful paintings illustrated. Yes, at least one other reviewer pointed out, the 'how-to'photos are all in black and white, and yeah, it sure would be helpful if they were also in color...(the way the photos of the paintings are) but that is actually a small thing. If you are a Bob Ross fan, and it is very hard not to be, this book is well worth obtaining...Watching a few episodes of this show on YouTube will answer most questions the commentary leaves...

Bob Ross would be proud!

Good book.

All of Bob Ross books give a detailed instruction on color choices and how to use your brush for the correct strokes to paint the enclosed pictures. You get to select and you can even choose your own color selection if you wish. The important thing is your painting is going to have your personality, feelings, and talent. It will not look like Bob's or anyone else's painting. That is what makes it totally yours. You just can't fail with that logic. Paint away and enjoy.

Well packed. A nice book and each one of the Bob Ross's sixty paintings has detailed explanations of how to draw with words and black and white illustrations. 😊

as said befor good to bye with the dvd of bob ross of how to paint to any one out there look at the amzon site for best byes on painting and dvds of music i have sent to people for bithdays as thay make good presents and always good remarks come back ok cheers mike amzon fan

彼の作品が見たくて中古で購入しました。 沢山の作品と描き方(コマ撮り＋要点＋英語で)がのっている作品テキスト集です。見ているだけで楽しいです。基本の描き方は始めに書かれているのですが、そこに前所有者の和訳の書き込みがありました。説明にはありませんでしたので－★にしましたが、この本の内容はとても良い。

Very instructive. However, I would have preferred if all the explanatory pictures where also in colour rather than black and white. For this reason I will now only purchase de DVDs.

Was a gift, recipient was very happy with it