Watching Bob Ross paint on television is one of favorite childhood memories
Oh mine too!  I love his happy little accidents on the Joy of Painting!
Do you know how long his show was on the air?
Only 11 years from 1983 to 1994 on PBS, but it seemed like all of my childhood!  
Mine too!  I was so sad when he passed away, but I don't remember what he died from.
the 9th grade to work as a carpenter with his father, Jack Ross, when he lost part of his left index finger. This, however, did not affect the way he held his palette while painting.
Early life Military career.
In 1961, 18-year-old Ross enlisted in the United States Air Force and was put into service as a medical records technician. He eventually rose to the rank of master sergeant and served as the first sergeant of the U.S. Air Force Clinic at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska
a painting, a landscape, to me it’s the mood conveyed that counts.”
“A friend of mine New York at the Salmagundi Club asked me why I didn’t paint watercolors. I said I don’t know how, and he said all you have to do is keep your board a little slanted so when you wash the color onto the paper it runs downhill. That I was my only lesson in watercolor.”
“It’s hard to say whether I have a favorite place to paint.