Welcome to The Joy of Painting online course. Join television pioneer Bob Ross as he guides you through the steps in painting beautiful landscapes. As you learn and practice along with Bob Ross, you'll join thousands of landscape painters who have already discovered how easy it is to create beautiful oil paintings.

Since 1981, Bob Ross has been teaching his acclaimed painting techniques to television viewers from all walks of life through the acclaimed PBS series Joy of Painting. Bob's philosophy has been that painting is not just for the chosen few - it is for everyone. All you need is the desire to make beautiful things happen on canvas. With Bob's fantastic Wet-on-Wet technique and a little dedicated practice, masterpieces that you never dreamed possible will flow from your brush.

This online course is divided into four lessons. Each will guide you through the techniques of oil painting and the tools necessary to create beautiful trees, skies, water and mountains in your landscape painting. There is a high bandwidth version for those of you with fast Internet connections (DSL, Cable Modem, T1, etc.) that has lots of video, and a low bandwidth version for those of you with dial-up (56K modem) connections using graphics, photos and Bob's audio explaining everything.