- Hey guys, it's my last video of the decade.
We're all heading towards the inevitable....
Christmas
ah, see you thought I was gonna go dark and depressing,
but no.
Hopefully you're feeling festive.
If you're not, go rub some tinsel on yourself
and then come back to me.
So I was doing some Christmas shopping
and my dad wants some art supplies
and I was on Ebay.
That makes me sound cheap.
I wasn't just buying his presents on Ebay.
He wanted something specific.
And I saw this Bob Ross super master sword collection
only used once, good condition,
and I thought, "You know what?"
It's never bothered me to be a year late
to a YouTube trend before.
I'm gonna do it.
But I'm gonna do it with a festive twist.
Twi, twist.
Twist.
I don't think I've painted properly since my GCSE art exam
because turning art into an exam for some reason
made it less fun for me, who knew?
I got one of these, an artists,
what is this called?
A plate?
Palette.
It's a palette right?
Palette.
So the collection came with a thick two inch brush,
a thinner one incher, a knife,
I'm sure that's the artistic term.
Oh it's actually a knife.
A painting knife.
Scrapey boy.
What have you got?
- A knife!
- No!
- Then a fan blender.
(thudding)
Which is now on the floor.
I was looking for the perfect Bob Ross painting to do
and I came across Christmas, what was it called?
Christmas Eve?
Christmas snow?
Christmas Eve Snow which sounded beautiful.
I haven't actually seen the final painting
'cause I wanted it to be a surprise
and I thought we could just paint along with Bob,
see what happens.
This one requires a black canvas,
which doesn't seen very festive.
It seems more Halloween-y,
but I'm guessing it's night time,
Santa's about to come make us all happy.
So, paints!
Paints!
Bob, what do we need?
Bobby, where are ya?
Oh, the music's already putting me in the mood.
("The Joy of Painting" theme playing)
There we go.
Festive, zen.
I'm excited to see Bob.
Always makes me a little bit sad but happy at the same time.
- Hey, welcome back.
I'm certainly glad you could spend a little time
with us today and--
- Aw, I'm glad to spend time with you, Bob.
- So I tell you what, let's get started.
Have 'em run all the colors across the screen.
- All right.
Color time.
I've made like a perfect poop shape.
How have I got brown on my hand?
I haven't even touched the brown paint yet.
That's what I get for buying a used box.
It's covered in brown.
My blobs have been birthed onto the palette.
Got my paint thinner here.
Playing a dangerous game putting it in a mug,
so I put it in the skull mug as a warning.
You will die.
I probably should have had Bob here,
so I'm not having to do this all the time,
but you'll get some exciting bobble action
as I swing my head around.
- And then on top of that
I've added a mixture of Midnight Black
and a little bit of Prussian Blue.
- I should probably do that so it's not dry
so then the paints all blend together.
(bristles scratching)
This easel was four pounds and it is not very stable.
So hopefully my painting won't fall on the floor.
(upbeat music)
Okay Bob.
- With the old two inch brush today.
- Got my two incher out.
- And then when you come in here
and you add a little bit of white.
- Oh here we go.
It's happening.
- [Bob] Kinds of beautiful little things.
Just happening.
- Oh.
- [Bob] And today I just wanna add a really small amount.
- Oh then right at the top okay.
- [Bob] I don't want a lot of color today.
Just a little.
I'm gonna put some clouds, I think--
- His looks better but I feel like I'm doing it.
- [Bob] A little bit of color shows up so strong
and so beautiful.
- It is very beautiful.
Can this just be the painting?
Let's just stop here.
It's called "The Darkest Night."
(thudding)
- Beat the devil out of it.
Do you think my brush is possessed by Satan?
(upbeat music)
I feel like I need to just like zazz it a bit more.
(chiming)
Oh there we go.
Oh.
- All right, let's get us a one inch brush.
- Got my one inch.
- Have a happy little cloud.
- Happy little cloud!
- Use the Titanium White.
- Okay.
- Just pull a little color into the bristles.
- Mine's a bit blue but I'm sure that's fine.
- And we have to make our first major decision.
- I'm nervous.
- Clouds live in our world?
Maybe, yep you're right.
There it is. - What's he doing?
All right just little flourishes.
- [Bob] Top corner of the brush
and just making tiny little circles.
It's the job I want in my next life,
I wanna come back and be a cloud and just float around.
- Aw.
If I ever look at the clouds
I'm just gonna see Bob staring down at me now.
Bob!
- Okay now take a large brush.
- Right, his are more better than mine.
(laughing)
Wait.
Oh he's doing some swizzles.
- [Bob] Just blend it, blend it, blend it.
Just enough to--
- Oh, no!
I thought my brush was black.
I feel like I've effed my clouds.
My clouds are just more misty than his, I don't care.
- Let's build us a mountain.
- Mountains.
- Let's build us a mountain today.
- This is gonna go well,
I can tell. - Use just black.
- Black?
- And Van Dyke Brown.
- A bit of brown.
- [Bob] A little Prussian Blue.
(beeping)
- [Bob] I'm gonna throw some Alizarin Crimson in there too,
what the heck.
- And some red.
- [Bob] Looking for a color that looks-
- And blue.
- [Bob] Have it right on the edge of the knife.
- Got it on my edge of my scrapey boy.
- Make a major decision,
where does your mountain live in your world?
I think he's gonna live over here.
- Okay.
- So let's go right up in here and let's just drop us in
a nice big mountain.
- Oh, I'm so nervous.
- [Bob] Nice big mountain.
I like to do mountains--
- Why's mine not doing that?
I need more.
- [Bob] Gives you a lot of experience with a knife.
Wherever we want them.
- Bob!
Bob!
What the frick.
- [Bob] You can do mountains with this knife.
- Okay, wait, wait, wait.
I just press harder.
Wait how, I look away for a second
and his is like a full photograph of a mountain
I'm so, this is CGI, I don't understand.
Wait, shut up.
Not Bob, me.
- [Bob] Gives you a lot of experience with the knife.
Once you learn how to do mountains--
- I have experience with a knife
I'm gonna stab myself if I don't do this right, okay.
- [Bob] And there's another peak--
- Ah!
- [Bob] That goes right there.
- I want mine to look like that!
Sorry this is meant to be a festive video.
I mean who thought it would go well for me?
Mine looks like the world has ended.
I need some more definitive lines.
(beeping)
Oh I just got yellow on it by accident!
Oh wait, if I could, maybe I could blend it in.
- All kinds of beautiful effects.
Okay and let's put some snow on that mountain.
For that, I'm gonna use Titanium White.
- All right we're snow capping the mountains, okay.
- [Bob] Graze it, caress it.
- Caress the mountain.
What, what the?
I don't understand why his paint is behaving like that
and mine is just a splodgy nightmare.
Oh I just got it all on my--
(demonic crying)
Right okay.
I'm snow capping these (honking)
whether they like it or not.
- [Bob] Create that illusion.
- Come on.
I've literally got so much white on my spade
and it's not going on the mountain.
- [Bob] I'm gonna push it back, watch here.
- There we go.
Come on.
Stay on.
Drag.
- There we go.
To make friends with this knife.
- It's not my friend it fricking hates me.
In the, actually, from far away mine looks good.
Maybe if we just put it 200 feet away
it'll be fine.
All right these mountains are going way down, right,
I've got loads of white on my spade.
- [Bob] No pressure.
- So I'm just gonna blob it down.
It's not about how good it is
it's about the fun you have along the way,
so I'm gonna stop crying and just enjoy
spending some time with Bob.
Why won't you turn into a mountain?
All right, he's blending it now,
oh sh, why is that?
How is he making trees?
- [Bob] And then come down--
- Oh.
Why does his look like trees
but mine just looks like I've ruined the painting?
If you squint your eyes they could be trees.
- [Bob] And they're big and they're strong.
- I'm making a tree.
(scraping)
I had this vision, okay, of me doing this
and then being like, "Wow guys.
"I can't believe this looks so great."
And lo and behold, I've made a full pigs nightmare.
I'm gonna soldier on because it's about the trying.
I don't need any advice, I'm just,
I'm just having fun.
I feel like my trees are a lost cause Bob.
- [Bob] We need to brighten this picture up.
- Can we go back to when were little fluffy clouds
going through the sky?
I think that was my limit of painting.
- Gotta make a big decision,
where's your snow live?
- Where's my snow going Bob?
Oh my god there's oil paint all over the floor.
Oh, okay, I like this.
Cover up the mistakes with snow.
Let's just paint the whole thing white
and call it "Blizzard"
how about that?
Bob, what do you think?
Snow on the go.
Snow on the go, right.
Oh it's blue.
Why's it still fricking blue?
(scraping)
Right I'm gonna do one good tree or I'll be very upset.
So being really careful now.
- [Bob] Under our tree.
- Dry.
- [Bob] Bottom of the tree, all in one stroke.
- Tree.
- [Bob] And then I'm gonna take some white.
- Oh this is, this is going well.
Yeah, all right.
That's all right.
His is more black but I don't care.
Pull it down.
- [Bob] That creates our shadow under our tree.
Fixes the bottom of the tree all in one stroke.
- Oh, Christ.
(sad music)
Why has mine done that?
My tree looks like it's exploded.
I'm kind of giving up in a way.
(laughing)
It's just not working for me.
In any way does this look like what he did?
Is he making a barn?
Jesus right.
Barn. - There we go.
Now we need a little bit of snow--
- Dark area.
- [Bob] Just like that.
Get into some Van Dyke Brown.
- I'm gonna move to this barn
in shame after this video goes up.
Okay, that's the top of the barn.
- Maybe, tell you what.
- Inside of the barn.
No I dipped in the red!
Oh no, ah!
My barn was going well until then!
Mine's like a rainbow barn.
It's the gay bar of this mountain.
I'm gonna give it a blue chimney I don't care anymore.
There you go.
Rainbow house.
- [Bob] People are gonna be arriving pretty soon.
- Oh there's people in the house, right, sorry.
They're gonna be arriving.
They're having a great time in this barn.
A final tree of shame.
- From all of us here, happy painting, and God bless.
- God bless, Bob.
This is what we ended up with.
This is like hell on Earth.
The apocalypse came and everything turned
to an oil paint mess.
Can we just compare the two?
(laughing) And.
Look at, what the, that doesn't even look like a.
I'd say that's the opposite of Christmas Eve Snow.
I'd say that's Christmas Eve Armageddon.
Look at my hands.
Look at the floor.
Look at my towel.
Look at my crotch.
Look at my Christmas jumper.
I guess this is a good thing to watch
because you'll all know that you can do better than me.
If you enjoyed this, give me a big painty thumbs up.
Won't be doing this one again.
Maybe I'll hang it in my room
just as a reminder that not everything has to be perfect.
I hope you have a lovely, festive, relaxing time
whatever you celebrate.
Also hello to you if you're watching this in July.
I'm gonna try and clean up this disaster.
Bye!