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Bob Ross Painting Night

Bob Ross paint-along night at home. Pick an episode and paint happy little trees side by side.

Pick a Bob Ross episode and paint along together, with cheap acrylics, watercolors or even colored pencils if that's what you have. Pause and rewind as often as you need; nobody keeps up with Bob. When you're done, hold your paintings up side by side for a photo, then each give the other's painting a title. Bonus points for a happy little tree.

Date or adventure
1-3 hours
Easy
Under $20
Indoors
Best in the evening

Good with just you, friends, family, and kids

Kids' version

Painting night! Make each thing.

A blue sky
A happy little tree
A mountain
A selfie with your painting!

Checked November 2026

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The Joy of Painting ran on public TV from 1983 to 1994, more than 400 episodes, each about half an hour. Many full episodes are free on the official Bob Ross YouTube channel.

Bob painted "wet-on-wet" with oil paints, blending new colors into wet ones, which is how he finished a whole landscape in one episode. Acrylics dry faster and won't blend quite the same, so pick an episode with a simple scene. The first one ever, "A Walk in the Woods," is a good start. It's supposed to look different from his. That's half the fun.

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