One of the things that I’ve been watching on Youtube is the old Bob Ross shows called The Joy of Painting. It always amazes me how he takes a blank canvas and thirty minutes later it’s filled with mountains, lakes, waterfalls, and “happy trees.” Everything works. Ross’s paintings have a depth and a kind of reality to them because he knows how to play lighter tones against darker tones. A smudge of Cadmium White gives shape to a tree trunk or creates a shoreline. Even in a painting that is heavy with dark hues it’s the lighter tones that give