Celebrating Bob Ross: Brannon Center to host 300 for art class on iconic painter's birthday
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What better way to celebrate the life and legacy of iconic painter Bob Ross than hosting 300 people at the Brannon Center for an art class?
That is what Bob Ross Inc. is planning Sunday morning in New Smyrna Beach, where hundreds will gather to make their own Ross-inspired works of art on what would have been his 81st birthday.
Ross was born in Daytona Beach on Oct. 29, 1942. He became famous after the success of his 1982 TV show “The Joy of Painting,” where he taught what is called the “wet-on-wet” painting technique — making it possible to fill the canvas with all kinds of colorful landscapes in less than an hour.
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Ross’ success continued in later years, as did his legacy after his death in 1995. Part of it is the Bob Ross Art Workshop and Gallery in New Smyrna Beach, founded in 1993 and where Nicholas Hankins hosts classes to those who want to learn Ross’ technique and where guests can see “a large collection of Bob's original oil paintings, many of which visitors will recognize from his public television series, ‘The Joy of Painting,'” according to its website.
Hankins and other instructors will be at the Brannon Center Sunday to help “300-plus never-before-painters … creating their own masterpiece,” according to Bob Ross Inc. President Joan Kowalski.
The event will also feature an opening ceremony “where we’ll be presenting a Bob Ross original painting to the New Smyrna Museum of History, and also a donation check to the NAMTA Art Advocacy,” Kowalski said.
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NAMTA Art Advocacy is a North Carolina-based art advocacy nonprofit organization.
The event, which has already sold out, takes place from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Brannon Center, 105 S. Riverside Drive.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Bob Ross celebration will host 300 painters in New Smyrna Beach
