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“I believe that you are an artist. I believe that everyone is an artist. When I say this I am not trying to be sensational. I merely state it as a conviction which has been proving itself for years in my beginners’ art classes.

Everyone is an artist because everyone is a camera. Every sunset you have ever seen, every interesting old man, or beautiful woman is recorded in your brain. In fact, everything your eyes have looked upon during your entire lifetime is imprinted in your brain as surely as is a picture on film or sound on a record. And there is a way by which you can bring these pictures in all their clarity and brilliance, out of your brain to your fingertips and on to paper or canvas.”
- Jon Gnagy

There are often funny Christmas gifts with a Bob Ross theme each year. (Did you see the Bob Ross Chia Pet that grows the famous television artist’s haircut from seed?) Bob Ross (1942 - 1995) may be the most well known of the former television artists, but we grew up, a…