While Bob Ross only takes 30 minutes for every painting he does, us mere mortals can’t expect to do the same. You can expect a painting to take at least 90 minutes, maybe 60 if you’re going really fast.
First of all it is important to use oil paints.While there are times where thinner paints are needed most of the time you’ll get better results with dryer and firmer paints, so paints with less oil.
When mixing two or more colors it’s often the case that we don’t want to create a new color that’s completely uniform, but rather a marbled mix of colors that we can use for our painting.