Anyone who wants to run naked in the mountains has never stepped barefoot on a pine cone dodging a rattle snake because he was busy scratching mosquito bites in places he should have had covered.
This what happens to me (and most creatives regardless of disciplines), when I get into the zone while designing or creating artwork. Although I usually keep my clothes on, remembering to eat or sleep is another thing.
This is an old TV show (Twilight Zone type)… this guy visits a museum daily finds that he can enter a painting of a boat in a lake (i believe). He then steals or kills someone and breaks back in to the museum in the dark to “enter” this painting and he does but what he realizes is that the museum moved the painting and he entered one of hell. anyone recall this one???
Wild Wild West episode, season 2 “Night of the Surreal McCoy” has Dr. Loveless creating paintings that with his machine you can go in and out of them and they are their own meta-dimensions. And he is a “pretty fair metaphysician.”
I love this. This is what total freedom is like. There is hardly anything better than being outdoors , naked in the sunshine. One can be truly in tune with ones self. Totally sensuous.
Great comments all! of course this is a world the artist created for himself, so no hunger, no cold, no biting insects. comfy moss to sleep on and if he needs to eat there will be food… I do like the idea he needed to take his supplies with him however, because an artist is never free without some means to make art…. harold and the purple crayon is my reference.
“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it lies a dimension of sight, a dimension of sound, a dimension…of mind. You have entered…The Twilight Zone.” [do-do-doodoo, do-do-doodoo…]
Dtroutma almost 4 years ago
Dimensional art.
LordDogmore almost 4 years ago
No mistakes, just some happy little accidents.
eastern.woods.metal almost 4 years ago
I want to go too !!
RAGs almost 4 years ago
It’s what happens when you lose yourself in your work.
enigmamz almost 4 years ago
I hope he didn’t draw any bears…
wiatr almost 4 years ago
I have a painting I’d love to hike through but not au naturel. It’s a late Fall scene.
David OBrien almost 4 years ago
He’d be a wiley person to do so.
PICTO almost 4 years ago
Nudity will set you free…if freedom means having nothing left to lose.
Bilan almost 4 years ago
Art is subjective. Did he escape into the nature or he now stuck to the wet paint?
Superfrog almost 4 years ago
Wiley bare.
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member almost 4 years ago
He’ll soon discover why loin cloths are a good thing!
And if that water is from snow-capped mountains, it might be a tad cold…
And if he had taken his paint brushes and paint, he could paint up the kegs of beer and the pizzas from Wiley’s Before Eve..
Need coffee almost 4 years ago
Are the little trees still happy?
GiantShetlandPony almost 4 years ago
Self portrait Wiley? :P
Say What? Premium Member almost 4 years ago
“… and you, too, can experience the joy of painting.”
-Bob Ross
marco2205 almost 4 years ago
I just imagine this is the last thing Bob Ross did.
Phaeton51 almost 4 years ago
Dabbling in Oil Painting I see!
in.amongst almost 4 years ago
Makes one really wish for nature – but then there is always a chance of meeting some unleashed woke Karen along the way.
You can thank me later for unnecessarily including politics into this.
pcolli almost 4 years ago
Realism…..
The Old Wolf almost 4 years ago
I understand where the artist is coming from. In the immortal words of Linus, I love humanity, it’s people I can’t stand!
Radish the wordsmith almost 4 years ago
“A Stop at Willoughby” The Twilight Zone.
jessie d. Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Hey, can you draw one where America is free from Trump and the GOP, we’ll all jump into that one, for sure.
keenanthelibrarian almost 4 years ago
Wouldn’t it be wonderful …
backyardcowboy almost 4 years ago
Is that the old Wiley or the Young Wiley?
Kaputnik almost 4 years ago
That will be fun for about a minute. Then the bugs will start investigating you. But maybe the Wileybears will take you in.
dot-the-I almost 4 years ago
Commando-painters’ next logical step.
morningglory73 Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Is that Wiley?
khmo almost 4 years ago
wish I could do that
crobinson019 almost 4 years ago
Must be using Acme paint he bought from a Coyote…
Andrew Sleeth almost 4 years ago
Wiley’s finally lost himself in one of his B.E. strips.
1953Baby almost 4 years ago
THANK GAWD it’s a rear view. . .
bbenoit almost 4 years ago
Wait, did he jump out the window (note the shirt on the sill) and be re-born in his art or did he just morph into it cosmically?
jmcever3 almost 4 years ago
I love it that the open door makes it ambiguous as to whether he’s in the painting or just running in the streets.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Anyone who wants to run naked in the mountains has never stepped barefoot on a pine cone dodging a rattle snake because he was busy scratching mosquito bites in places he should have had covered.
pony21 Premium Member almost 4 years ago
On a darker note: This reminds me of the old “Night Gallery” episode titled “The Escape Route.” Still haunts me, even after all these years. shudder
connie.jensen almost 4 years ago
reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode!!!
well-i-never almost 4 years ago
Black flies and skeeters. Just sayin’.
l3i7l almost 4 years ago
Trompe l’oeil at its finest.
Amra Leo almost 4 years ago
Boy, he really got into that painting…
rmbdot almost 4 years ago
Looks like the setup for a “Pierre of the North” punchline.
mistercatworks almost 4 years ago
He should have taken his colorful clothing. It obviously doesn’t belong in the black-and-white world.
Linguist almost 4 years ago
The Shaw’s Shanks Redemption
john_chubb almost 4 years ago
Nice, but he should have painted himself some company! A bevy would be best!
sandpiper almost 4 years ago
He looks like a lot of nearly naked people seen on beaches, so social distancing won’t be a problem.
comixbomix almost 4 years ago
“The Picture of Dorian’s Butt”…
Michael G. almost 4 years ago
Brought to you by ACME®
shorzy almost 4 years ago
Art is life…life is art… :-)
fuzzbucket Premium Member almost 4 years ago
If that were possible, Amazon would sell out of Bob Ross DVD’s.
Walrus Gumbo Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Art, get into it!
the lost wizard almost 4 years ago
Purple Rose of Cairo.
b95954297b48a54fcff8fddbcdef6b2f almost 4 years ago
Free willy.
everett_r0 almost 4 years ago
If it were only that easy….
Lablubber almost 4 years ago
That forest you painted might have Wiley Bears in it.
Ginny Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Did the au natural thing one morning in the woods. Sat on a log and got a tick for my trouble. That was fun.
DCBakerEsq almost 4 years ago
Bob? Bob? Oh my God, BOB!
PaulKmecak almost 4 years ago
A brilliant use of Acme tunnel paint.
scaeva Premium Member almost 4 years ago
There should be a Wiley Bear somewhere in that picture …
Ryan Plut almost 4 years ago
I always wondered what happened to Bob Ross.
Buoy almost 4 years ago
It’s paramount to imagine the world we want to inhabit.
jarjimmy almost 4 years ago
Is that where Bob Ross went?
marko92752 almost 4 years ago
I wonder if that is a self portrait?
unca jim almost 4 years ago
……and that’s how Bob Ross left the atelier… ♥
Bicycle Dude almost 4 years ago
This what happens to me (and most creatives regardless of disciplines), when I get into the zone while designing or creating artwork. Although I usually keep my clothes on, remembering to eat or sleep is another thing.
Malcome1 almost 4 years ago
Til the black flies, gnats, and mosquitoes show up.
blue44sd almost 4 years ago
This is an old TV show (Twilight Zone type)… this guy visits a museum daily finds that he can enter a painting of a boat in a lake (i believe). He then steals or kills someone and breaks back in to the museum in the dark to “enter” this painting and he does but what he realizes is that the museum moved the painting and he entered one of hell. anyone recall this one???
sperry532 almost 4 years ago
If only it were that easy.
bwsevier Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Would love to head out like that!
Cerabooge almost 4 years ago
Makes me wonder if Dorothy was a painter.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 4 years ago
Wild Wild West episode, season 2 “Night of the Surreal McCoy” has Dr. Loveless creating paintings that with his machine you can go in and out of them and they are their own meta-dimensions. And he is a “pretty fair metaphysician.”
cleokaya almost 4 years ago
Swinging in the wind
Redd Panda almost 4 years ago
“For Mister Wiley Miller, things are never going to be the same again. He’s entering a place, we call, the Twilight Zone.” and cue the spooky music…
Concretionist almost 4 years ago
I could use a picture with those qualities. Alas, the best my similar pictures can give me is a purely mental journey.
bakana almost 4 years ago
Forget Photo-Realism. This is Real-Realism.
The big question is: Can he get back Out when he gets hungry for a nice Cheese Steak?
DaveBufalo almost 4 years ago
I love this. This is what total freedom is like. There is hardly anything better than being outdoors , naked in the sunshine. One can be truly in tune with ones self. Totally sensuous.
hdcanterbelle Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Great comments all! of course this is a world the artist created for himself, so no hunger, no cold, no biting insects. comfy moss to sleep on and if he needs to eat there will be food… I do like the idea he needed to take his supplies with him however, because an artist is never free without some means to make art…. harold and the purple crayon is my reference.
Ryan Plut almost 4 years ago
“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it lies a dimension of sight, a dimension of sound, a dimension…of mind. You have entered…The Twilight Zone.” [do-do-doodoo, do-do-doodoo…]
critter8875 almost 4 years ago
“The Veldt”