Click the link below for Amazon warehouse deals and every <br />click helps keep this channel running and commercial free<br /><br /><br />The Joy of Painting was an American half-hour <br />instructional television show created and<br /> hosted by painter Bob Ross which ran from <br />January 11, 1983 to May 17, 1994. In each<br /> episode, Ross taught techniques for landscape<br /> oil painting, completing a painting in each <br />session. The program followed the same format <br />as its predecessor, The Magic of Oil Painting,<br /> hosted by Ross' mentor Bill Alexander. During<br /> its run, it won three Emmy Awards.