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tilthat:

TIL that Bob Ross had an intense feud with his art teacher, William Alexander, who grew so frustrated with Bob Ross that he said: ‘He betrayed me…I invented ‘wet on wet.’ I trained him and he is copying me – what bothers me is not just that he betrayed me, but that he thinks he can do it better.“

via ift.tt

The article this links too is super bitter and I’ll not have anyone slander Bob Ross like this!  There wasn’t really a “feud” between Alexander and Ross, it really just seemed like Alexander was jealous about Ross, you know, using the technique he was taught (imagine that). Ross, on the other hand, dedicated an episode to Alexander saying, “
Bill taught me this fantastic technique, and I feel as though he gave me a precious gift, and I’d like to share that gift with you.“

Also many people have pointed out that the “wet-on-wet" technique actually originated in the 15th century (a bit before Bill’s time), and was used by pretty famous painters already like Claude Monet, among others.