Over the past few days i've been watching a lot of Bob Ross' Joy of Painting, mostly because i find listening and watching him paint soothing, however after watching him for a while i made a link between the layers of him painting and the layers in photoshop. When Bob paints he creates a layer and then he moves on to the next, and when he does he often covers up a large part of the previous layer which is a real shame because the under layers are often very pretty and the fact they aren't saved is a real shame, however with parallax animation different layers of a pictures can move separately to give an impression of movement, often used in animation scenes inside a car, it also means you can see more of that kind of painting.
Another link i made was how similar his paintings look to the traditional backgrounds of old animation films, they have a similar slightly blurred out feel and the use of brush strokes to give the impression of objects. For example the below images are a background for a scene in The Fox and the Hound and a painting by Bob Ross.
Though Bob Ross' style can easily be seen, the similarities between the two images are great, particularly the clouds and distant parts of the images which are both very blurred and there is a lack of bold outlines or much of an outline at all, which contrasts with the outlines of the animated characters.
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