"I so wanted to paint with Bill Alexander. But my husband said ... "Let's have a happy little tree right in here," he says. "There he goes." From 1982 through 1994, Ross filmed more than 400 ...

Ross wasn’t the first artist to paint on TV. He had in fact studied under Bill Alexander ... and coined his “happy little trees” catchphrase. He left viewers with both sensual instructions ...

1. BEFORE THE JOY OF PAINTING WITH BOB ROSS, THERE WAS THE MAGIC OF OIL PAINTING WITH BILL ALEXANDER. But this student-teacher relationship would eventually dissolve into a rivalry once Ross’s ...

Ross wasn’t the first artist to paint on TV. He had in fact studied under Bill Alexander ... and coined his “happy little trees” catchphrase. He left viewers with both sensual instructions ...