Video Responses

• Bob Ross refers to the different "planes" of his painting and the effect it has on the viewer's distance. The Disney artists refer to the different ways that artists envision the creation of trees. It is very interesting to see how the trees turn out so different even though they were paining the same tree. They talk about the way each artist has their own personal response to what the tree represents. One may begin by looking at the trunk, another may focus on the background and environment, and another might begin to look at its leaves. Since they each have different ideas about the same tree, we see how artists do not paint trees or landscapes; they paint an idea.
• The artists direct our attention towards the way each individual artist performs their art. For example, one artist may look at the engineering and architectural patterns of a tree and the other may primarily focus on different aspects such as the arrangement of lines.
• A lot of these videos focus on the process of creating art and how that process shows a different artistic experience. They use different paint, a large/small canvas, or thin/thick paintbrushes.
• In Family Guy's video, they make fun of Bob Ross' artistic style and process while he paints his happy trees.