First Oil Painting

For a long time I have enjoyed watching Bob Ross and his show about oil painting on PBS in the US.  I have wanted to try his method of paainting for over 20 years and when I got the opportunity to come to the UK I decided to send along my unused painting supplies rather then putting them into storage.


On a whim last week I decided to do a search on Google for "Bob Ross Certified Instructor St. Albans" and found Linda Peacock at Hidden-Talents who offers a class once a month.  I decided to sign up and today was finally the day to do my first Bob Ross oil painting, and my first oil painting that wasn't paint by numbers!

When I arrived I had all my supplies but had decided to not bring a lunch as it was only 6 hours and I had a Full English for breakfast.  When I arrived Linda asked if I had brought my "Kitchen Roll".  I didn't understand.  I asked Dana today what she thought a "Kitchen Roll" was and she got it right so clearly I'm just dense.

I thought they meant a roll, you know the kind you eat.  So I told Linda, "No I didn't bring a Kitchen Roll as I'm not hungry.  I had a full breakfast".  After much back and forth she finally went and got an example of a "Kitchen Roll".  Turns out it is a roll of paper towels.  So we had a good laugh about me being to hungry to bring my Kitchen Roll.

I thought my painting came out pretty good for the first time.