Must it be? It Must be!

North Sea Sunflowers , Beryl A - Ron Sandford

Scottish , b. 1937 -

Stamped with artist’s seal ,pen, ink and watercolour on paper ,

You may need to learn how to set up your paints and such… but this is what people did, live, while the show aired. That’s what the show was for. I had family members create lovely works of art they enjoyed, which I still have on my walls, because William Alexander and Bob Ross both said:

SCREW METICULOUS CLASSICAL ART PRACTICES — JUST GRAB A PALETTE KNIFE AND BIG OLD BRUSH AND PAINT!

They freed a whole generation of people who were taught to paint detail and realism and exact representation of reality — people who largely gave up this kind of thing because it got tedious.

I watched the joy of family members as they rediscovered art as a messy fun spontaneous half hour activity.

“Nishapur polychrome dish” Persia, Nishapur

10th - early 11th century AD (H 6.5cm D 23cm)

Dish, slip-painted, 'buff" or 'Nishapur polychrome' ware. Buff earthenware, straight radiating walls. vertical rim and everted lip, on a shallow foot-ring with a concave base.