Bob Ross children: Steve Ross
Robert Norman Ross was born on October 29, 1942, in Daytona, Florida. He was born in the city of Orlando, Florida. Ross joined the US Air Force after failing out of high school in the ninth grade. During his service, he got his first painting instruction at a United Service Organizations club in Anchorage, Alaska….
Robert Norman Ross was born on October 29, 1942, in Daytona, Florida. He was born in the city of Orlando, Florida.
Ross joined the US Air Force after failing out of high school in the ninth grade.
During his service, he got his first painting instruction at a United Service Organizations club in Anchorage, Alaska.
In the early 1960s, while enlisted in the United States Air Force, Bob Ross discovered oil painting.
He learned the “wet-on-wet” technique, which allowed him to finish work in less than an hour.
He went on to become a teacher himself, eventually educating millions of people on the television show The Joy of Painting.
Bob Ross children: Steve Ross
Ross was married three times and had two children: a son, Robert Stephen “Steve” Ross, with his first wife, Vivian Ridge, and a kid he fathered from a connection he had as a teenager.
Steve, a gifted painter, was featured on The Joy of Painting on occasion and went on to become a Ross-certified instructor.
