JOB: Art subject for afro-donning nice guy painter Bob Ross.
DESCRIPTION: Bob Ross is someone you either have or haven't heard of - there's no "knowing the face but not the name" or vice versa when Bob's in town - you've either seen him paint happy little bushes and trees or you haven't.
A slightly lesser known fact is that Bob Ross is one of the key manufacturers of art instruction manuals, books and sets in the craft trade. An even LESSER known fact is that he has made several books that are full of paintings of MR. T.
"The Joy of Painting Mr. T" is going into it's 23rd series now, ever since it branched out from Bob Ross' original "Joy of Painting".
"What's there not to like about Mr. T?" asked Bob. "He's a big black guy with a mohawk and chains, dagnabbit. He's a perfect painting subject. You just choose a pose, choose a background, choose a fool to be pitied, voila, there's your painting. Seen one of my non-Mr. T paintings, seen'em all. GOD I got sick of painting trees and streams and rivers and bushes with a fan brush. The network said my other work was "too out-there", but it was a genuine expression of my middle-aged angst. Then I started painting Mr. T and things got better."
"Mr. T in a sombrero" was recently auctioned at Christie's in London for �300,000. The winner was supposedly a "Mr. T-type with alot of gold and a mohawk", and word in the auction world is that the person who bought the painting was indeed Bill Gates.
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