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Happy Birthday, Bob! I look forward to Monday mornings and your BobBlast. Our styles may differ, but I find something I can apply. Have a great 80th birthday!!
Happy Birthday to you, Bob! You stand apart from the rest by being yourself and sharing your love of painting with us. I learn something every week from you and get inspired to paint loose and free. What fun!
Ann
Bob, you made art fun instead of anxiety producing for me…thank you from the bottom of my heart!! Happiest of Birthdays to YOU…I hope your day and coming year are as special as you
You rock! You always have, you always will! Love your workshops & bobblasts. Your personality is super fantastic.
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Bob, your workshop was so much fun. Love your idea for paint puddle chickens. What a hoot! Now I look forward to a weekly paint pull. Happy birthday, and celebrate big time! Many happy returns!
Happy belated birthday Bob!!! Wishing you all the best of health and joy! May your passion for art and sharing continue!! I have benefitted tremendously from your art classes in Calgary! Always so much fun! Sending hugs!
Happy Special Day to a wonderful artist that has brought new vision too my art and my life. Many thanks for sharing your gift with the world!
Johnny Beck
Dear Bob,
Have a wonderful birthday! You have been such a great inspiration for me. If it hadn’t been for you, I probably wouldn’t have taken up painting and I would have missed out on getting constant pleasure doing it. You’re so kind, knowledgeable and funny. I haven’t ever had an instructor that I enjoyed and respected so much. I appreciate all your Bob Blasts. Have a wonderful day!
Big happy birthday Bob. Ever since I took a workshop in Sedona I have heard your voice when I paint. Telling me bits of wisdom. You are a treasure. I am doing a big Show in December i am celebrating my 85th birthday next month. Never stop teaching and painting.
Bob,
I look forward to your weekly videos. Your style is one that is exactly what I’ve been looking for in my artistic expression. I appreciate your sayings and find myself quoting you occasionally. My favorite is the 2 haired brushs and tickling it to death resonate with me. At 71, I’m not far behind.
Happy birthday and many more!!
From Baltimore MD
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOB! We’ve not met in person but I’m continually inspired by your weekly blog! I hope to one day join one of your in person workshops. Here’s to keep on blogging and inspiring so many of us.
Happy birthday Bob!
Hard for me to believe I began taking classes from you 25 years ago! Thank you for all the motivating and inspiration. I am looking forward to many more, including later this month!
Happy, happy birthday to one of my most admired artists! I hope you enjoy your day.
Hey Bob,
You’ve made painting so much fun. I never have to fear jumping in to a work of art. Thanks for all the monday mornings that pick me up
Cheers and happy Birthday,
Robin
Happy Birthday Bob
Look forward to Bobs blast and can’t paint without my trusty color wheel
Hope to be in a live class this upcoming year
Come to Florida and teach!!!
Happy birthday Bob!! I am so very thankful for you sharing your zest of life and art with so many over the 20 plus years I have had the pleasure of knowing you! Sending you a huge hug and lots of love! “Boy ain’t right!!” Love you, Sharon and Joe DiGiulio!!♥️♥️
Happy Birthday Bob!
Thank you so much for all your fabulous instructions and great love of creativity to teach us to paint simplifying in good taste any expressive idea.
Many Happy Returns! Thanks for all the inspiration over many years. I loved the workshop I took from you at the BBAC and found my own path soon after. Your enthusiasm and blasts remind me of how lucky we artists are, to have this passion for what we do that can keep us engaged as we get older!
I love your videos, Bob. Happy birthday!
Hi Bob. Happy Birthday to u. You look great!! I had a great time in Mexico and hope to see u again in another workshop somewhere else. Maybe California. Have a great day!!
Happy birthday Bob. I enjoy watching your videos on YouTube. Greetings from Italy
Happy birthday Bob, I hope your day is filled with fun painting explorations, family, friends, laughter and love. Cheers from Tasmania!
Happy Birthday, Bob! You brighten the artist world every Monday morning!
Dearest Bob, Love your enthusiasm! Love your energy! Love your weekly demos! Love your effervescent personality and the joy you bring me and your fans! Blessings to you and enjoy an absolutely fantastic birthday!
Hey Bob! You’re still having birthdays?!? Impressive. Have a wonderful birthday! We miss you lots!
Happy birthday Bob. You are the Ultimate Communcator through your images and words. You’ve made concepts in art clear and useful.
Plus in a few interactions, I found you to be a true gentleman. God bless you Bob.
Bill Brickner
Happy Birthday Bob! My sister inlaw turned me onto you and I have been following you ever since. Thanks for the inspiration, the tools for giving me the courage to keep painting, and for having fun along the way.
Happy Birthday! Carole
Happy Birthday Bob!
My life as a painter has been blessed beyond measure because of you. You’ve given me “permission” to paint freely and have fun doing it!
Thanks so very much.
Warm wishes for a super fun birthday and a healthy, happy future making paintings just for the joy it brings.
Sent with happy memories from taking your workshops at the VT Art Events; reading your Artsy Fartsy newsletter and now enjoying your Bob Blasts!
Always a fan,
Kathleen from MA
Happy Birthday Bob, love, thanks and appreciation from Bonnie Scotland. Hoots mon, many more happy years of painting to you
Hey, BOB! Happy Birthday! May you be happy, healthy and artful for many, many more wonderful years.
P.S. The little art chats we have every week (too bad you can’t hear me but I love listening to you) are a BRIGHT SPOT in every way. Thank you x 80!!!
Happy Birthday,Bob … !
Whoaaa, getting up there! Love to see it! Probably because your wife takes such good care of you! .
You have given me and my Fort Myers Beach Art Group many, many happy times, and Years of awesome painting bliss. Your knowledge and excitement has alsogiven us untold hours of fun! Party on! Many Returns!
Happy Birthday, Bob!!! I sooooo appreciate your weekly Bob Blasts…Keep up the inspiration!!!
Happy birthday, Bob. You make painting so much fun! I have enjoyed your videos and books as well. Keep those brushes moving!
Thanks for all the years of Bob Blasts — they are fun and inspiring.
Happy Birthday. Keep on painting!
Thanks for all the years of Bob Blasts — they are fun and inspiring. Happy Birthday. Keep on painting!
Happy Birthday Bob!
I hope your day is wonderful and your year is spectacular!
I’ve just returned from Ireland and have a new appreciation for all the shades of green.
I’m looking forward to seeing you in August.
Cheers!
Happy Birthday, Bob. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and knowledge of painting. I look forward to your videos every week.
Happy Birthday to you …keep up the good work of inspiring those of us that need a little boost every once in a while. We need to review the basics and adventure in to the unknown of abstract.
Dear Bob
U will never AGE!!! It is because of your eternal, positivity so many of us has been able to create from the soul. May u continue your passion and stay happy and healthy on your amazing journey!!! Love Barbara
WHATA CUTIE!
WHAT TALENT!
WHAT DIRTY FINGERS!(HAH!)
Thanks so much for helping so many of us to blast through our paintings!
Happy b-day Bob. Thank you for your willingness to share, inspiration and positive attitude. Had a wonderful time at the aquamedia workshop at Dillmans this past week. Regards, one of your carrot people.
Hey, Happy Birthday, sir!!! You’re so generous and inspiring, the world is a better place thanks to you and your work- bless!!!!! Enjoy “Bob Day”!!!
Bob you’ve been a great inspiration and a lot of fun. Happy Happy Birthday
Happiest Birthday to you Bob! I’m so grateful I’ve had the opportunity to learn and laugh at your studio….you’re generous with your teaching and so fun to be around…. Very grateful for you! Lots of love and gratitude, Jody Cottrell
Happy Birthday Bob!
Love how you paint without fear! Love the BobBlasts! Looking forward to many more!
Happy birthday, Bob! It has ben SUCH a joy and honor to work with you for all of these years. I am forever grateful that Sedona Arts Center brought us together. You have ignited such inspiration and passion both within and without so many lucky people for so long. May you continue to do so. And may the creative spark and spirit that keeps you shining, carry on brightly to bless us all with your gifts and light. Thank you for being in my life. xo
So glad you decided to visit planet earth :))
You are one of the best!!!
Tons of love
Ulrike
Happy birthday to you.
Your Bob blasts are crazy good. I appreciate all you do and you keep me pumped up. Thank you for all you do.
Happy Birthday Bob, I’ve enjoyed your classes and enthusiastic teaching style for ( let’s just say) many years. Tho I switched over to sculpture a few years ago, I still enjoy painting. Lots of fun in Bahamas, Mexico, Italy, Monterey and the great workshops in SF. Have great Birth Year, Roberta
Happy Birthday Bob. You have been a great inspiration to me and my family. We share all your videos and artistic enthusiasm with each other… not just from the world of wonderful acrylics but attitude choices and creativity. I have become an artist in my retirement and re-invented myself. My 80th is a half year away and I have lots more painting to do. Thanks for sharing so much! Dudley Moor
Happy Birthday Bob. I’m sure your family will see to it so you have a special celebration today. May your brushes and paint tubes do a birthday dance too
Happy Birthday to You! happy Birthday to You! I’m so glad to have taken your workshop in Cloudcroft! And I’m eight TOO!
Best Wishes and hoping to keep being inspired by you for years to come!
Happy Birthday from Alaska!! You have been such a positive influence in my life—so encouraging and motivating. So much of my confidence in my creativity comes from your lessons—both technical and philosophical! I hope you have the BEST birthday so far!!
Happy birthday from Charlotte NC! You have been such an inspiration to me. I took your course back in 2007 in Boone. I implemented your techniques and have never looked back. I learned a whole new way of painting! I went from a few sales to now over 250 sales. I’m a day late but hope you had a terrific birthday!! Now it’s time to “loosen Up!! Cheers!
Happy birthday, Bob! I love watching your Bob Blasts and monthly demonstrations! You’ve helped this granny loosen up and become a better painter! Thank you!
Happy Birthday and enjoy celebrating all month long with love from one of your Aroyo Grande Painting Bobettes!
Happy Birthday Bob!
Sending you wishes for a great day! Thanks for sharing YOU, your love for life and all things Art.
Cheers from a winery in the Finger Lakes!
With love,
Mary Ann and (her sister) Marilyn
Happy Birthday Bob, your bob blast is a great start to my week. I was in Mexico in 2020 for your workshop before COVID and also 2 years earlier in Victoria, BC. Enjoy your day and have some fun.
With best wishes and a toast to you on your birthday from a friend in Canada. All the best and many more years on your journey that you have so generously shared with so many of us.
Happy birthday, Bob! Thank you for the awesome inspiration and guidance you have shared with me over the years. Your inspiration has been a treasure.
I hope you celebrate like a rockstar! Miss you and Kate.
P.S. Keep your brushes wet.
Hi Bob,
I have never met you in person but because of the way you treat me on your Bob’s blasts I think we are friends. I look forward to every week and thinking differently about the many things you teach. I would love to take your classes and hope to in the future. Have a very , very HHHHAPPPPPY Birthday. I look forward to our friendship for many more years. I have posted one of my portraits I have painted. This one of my sister
Happy Birthday! Wish I could be there to celebrate in person! You are, of course, WONDERFUL! I love you and hope you have a great birthday MONTH!!! and a fun new decade! xoxoxo -PJ
Happy 80th Bob! Thanks for all your hard work and creative direction. I am not a painter (I spent my entire career in Manhattan as a design director) but I am a fellow Pennsylvanian and now live in rural PA. Wishing you all the best in your 80th year and beyond.
After watching you for years . . . I ( 73 ) would have never guessed you’re older then me, never! I hope that you’re a Believer and can say with me, “what difference does it make when you’re going to live forever?!” I hope this is the best B-D you’ve ever had! Blessings. Thank and praise the Lord Jesus Christ for your fantastic life.
Happy 80 years young Bob!!!
I’ve enjoyed your videos, enthusiasm and bad jokes for years! Thank you so much for doing them & for continuing to share your talents. I met you at Donna Downey studio years ago & enjoyed your workshop. Continue to have fun!
Happy Birthday Bob!!!
ocean
Happy Birthday and many more happy returns! Thank you for your inspiration, knowledge, talent and bright spirit! Thank you for your workshops and you make Mondays better with your newsletters. 80 is great, paint your way to 100! Love, peace and happiness to you.
Happy Birthday Bob!
To one amazing creative, exciting humorous man!
Have a stellar celebration!
See u in July for another fun workshop.
Happy birthday, my friend. My life is immeasurably much better for having met you!Robin Walker
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Happy Birthday Bob! Wishing you many more happy and healthy birthdays! Enjoy your Bob Blasts every Monday morning!
Froher Geburtstag von Deutschland Bob. Have a super Happy Birthday, Bob. You are the most fun, encouraging and inspiring art teacher I’ve ever had. . I am very thankful, that I could parrticipate in 2 of your workshops in spite of living so far away from Californmia. Have a great birthday celebration with Kate and your family.
My girly Ms. shiva says Happy Birthday Bob, you see she knows how my morning ritual through thick and thin covid or the broken foot I have right now IS coffee and Bob, your true generous and gifted teaching is touching more lives than you probably know my someday hope is to actually attend one of your many workshops
I always laugh about your many animals speaking during your videos
Today it’s the chickens.
I have learned so much from you now I need to actually start painting
I want to move from my beloved doodles into painting.
Stay well God bless you ARE doing Gods work everyday.
K. nelsen
Happy Birthday, Bob! You have been so inspiring to me and many others. Whenever I feel like I’m not in the mood to paint or just feeling dull, I check out some of your videos and immediately feel uplifted and able to get to it. Wishing you many more happy years of inspiring others and plain old having a good time!
Happy birthday Bob. Many wishes for happiness, good health and wisdom for many more years to come. You are a jewel and a special person. So fortunate to have met you and learned from you. Hugs and more hugs from Anja
I know you will enjoy the happiest of happy birthdays surrounded by the love and best wishes from your legion of fan-friends!
Happy Birthday Bob, I hope you have a wonderful celebration for your 80th. I am grateful that you continue to share your wisdom with us and look forward to the weekly Bob Blast. Your enthusiasm and joy is contagious. Thank you.
Happy birthday to you dad (& to our Popo) Thank you for your fun energy and for your creative vibe. We love you!
Happy Birthday, Bob!
Here you go- trendsetting again- showing us all how to take on the new role of octogenarian with style, enthusiasm, curiosity and talent!
Wishing you the best!
Happy birthday Bob!!!! we haven’t met in person, but I’ve taken a few online’s with you and I loved every class I’ve taken. Thank you for all that you give us .. your inspiration keeps me going ….keep up your positive vibes!!! ….but I hope to take one of your workshop soon
Popo & Kylan….one of my favorites. Happy 80th!
Happy Birthday Bob!!!!
Your energy and love for painting is beyond inspiring!!!
I have learned so much from you excited to learn even more!
Kindly,
Charissa
Happy Birthday Bob – from Canada. You are truly an inspiration on so many levels! I hope you have a wonderful birthday celebration!
Bob, we had the most amazingly wonderful workshop in Prince Edward Island years ago… pre-COVID, pre-Hurricane Ian which has decimated southwest Florida and especially Sanibel and Fort Myers, pre-California fires. Your teaching was spot-on and the mackerel fishing trip was sublime! Hope to get out to another workshop some day. We all learned so much and you made it so much fun!!
Happy Birthday, Bob! I look forward to Monday blasts and have learned so much.
Happy happy birthday! Even though I haven’t met you in person, you have influenced and inspired me!
Happy Birthday, dear Bob. I hope you remember me as one of your adoring students. This is me on my 80th back in March. Have a great day, and a great life.
Love, Gerry
Happy Birthday, Bob!! I hope it is full of wonder & enlightenment & fun & delicious times!! Thank you so much for many years of inspiration and painting and art knowledge! Your encouragement, classes, book and weekly lessons keep me in awe!!
Happy Birthday Bob..you have such a wonderful free spirited kind of approach to your painting and I imagine in life as well. This probably helps keep you so young at heart. I look forward to your videos as they continue to help me loosen my painting style. I appreciate all the wisdom you share…thanks so much!
Happy birthday Bob! You are so inspiring… I receive your blog and have watched almost all of your videos. Your enthusiasm and joy of artmaking is contagious, as I read someone else say… Hapy 80th birthday! Wishing you many more years of creating and health!
Hi Bob! I look forward to Mondays for your BobBlasts! My own birthday (70th) is tomorrow the 15th, so if by chance there is cake, I’ll enjoy a piece in your honor!
Happy Birthday Bob!
I love watching Bob Blasts, You have taught me a lot about painting and staying loose. Thank you! I wish you a wonderful day!
I am grateful for your generous and creative spirit, as well as your effervescent personality!
The world is better because you have trod a path for your followers❤️❤️
I know that you celebrate EVERY DAY … HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Bob!
Happy Birthday, Bob!
I’ve really enjoyed two workshops that I’ve taken with you…one at Cheap Joe’s in 2015 and most recently, the online Abstract Painting one you did the week of May 15th.
You are an inspiration to me in a zillion ways…from your positive, fun attitude to the incredible art that you create and show others how to do it too!
Thanks for sharing your gifts with me and so many others in the world.
Wishing you the happiest of birthdays!
Happy Birthday Bob!! Sharing your enthusiasm and knowledge of acrylic art brings joy to other artists like me – thank you and enjoy your celebration.️
Happy Birthday Bob! You’re a wonderful teacher and an inspiration! You put out so much positive energy, just what the world needs! Have the best birthday and here’s to many more!
Happy Birthday Bob,!
Thank you for all your Bob Blasts I love them!!
Happy Birthday Bob!!! What an amazing birthday you must be having and I hope that it is as brilliant as you are. Thank you so much for the joy and inspiration you provide to all of us. I hope that your month and the next at least 30 years are as special as you are. Lots of hugs and much love.
Hi Birthday Bob. Hope you have a wonderful day full of friends and family and art. Thanks for being such a great instructor and motivator.
Happy Birthday, Bob.
I have just started watching your weekly Bob Blast, after being referred recently by an artist friend. You make painting fun and I learn something every time. All the best. Joan
Dear Bob,
Have a wonderful birthday.
I cannot thank you enough for all the joy you’ve brought me, teaching me to paint, stay loose!
One day I may make it to meet you in person,at one of your fab teaching venues.
Very best wishes to you,
You’re the best!
Cathy.❤️❤️❤️
Happy Birthday, Bob, from an 86 yr old! You youngster, you! Life’s a peach when one is painting, making art. All the best for years to come.
Kay Cox
Happy Happy Birthday to a wonderful teacher and human being! Thank you for the many years of creative inspiration and the generosity of sharing your gifts and talents so selflessly! Have a fabulous day celebrating fabulous YOU! Big Birthday Hugs!
Happy Birthday Bob!
I have been so lucky to find an art lesson every Monday morning in my emails. I really enjoy your unique approach to creating art. Thank you for being such a great inspiration. Much happiness to you!
Happy 80th Birthday Bob,
May you have a real Blast on your special day.
I look forward to Mondays with Bob. You are inspirational with your no nonsense methods and approach and
although I have not managed to come to a workshop yet, I am working on it!
May you and your team enjoy the happiest of days.
Have fun!
Wow! You’ve received such adulation and heartfelt praise Bob, little more for me to say other than a few words : your insightful and joyous guidance on art are so enlightening, unique and super enjoyable, Thankyou. And of course more importantly,
Happy Birthday dear Bob.
You are my go to painting guy! Happy Birthday and many more!
Noreene
Happy Birthday! Have another fantastic year.
Hope you have a great day and many more! Keep blasting…I enjoy every one!
Happy birthday! It is such a joy to watch your videos. I sometimes hear your voice in my mind saying, “Show them how much fun it is to be a painter!” Thank you, Bob. Hope you enjoy your day.
Happy Birthday, dear Bob. I met you twelve years ago, and I’ll never forget my first day as your student! When I’m working away in my studio, I hear your voice often and feel your energy and positive vibes. What a gift.
Enjoy your very special day.
Happy Birthday, Bob!!! You’ve made a fun activity even funner!!! Watching your joy and energy have become a happy habit for me. If I’m feeling a bit blue, I watch a Bob Blast and I’m instantly perked up!!! Thank you for constantly encouraging us and making painting seem so easy.
Happy, Happy Birthday to you! I’m so grateful you were born!
Happy Birthday Bob,
You are, and continue to be an inspiration.
Your painting course radically changed my art journey.
Thanks again.
Happy Birthday Bob,
You brighten the world with the generosity of your videos, Bob Blasts, art and humour. An inspiration to all of us.
Have a Birthday Blast!
Still adorable at 80! Thanks for all of your generous sharing of your talent! I love Bob Blasts! Happy Birthday!
Happiest birthday and endless thanks.. YOU launched my art “career”.. I’ve discovered so much joy due to your teachings.. enjoy your day ..and the whole YEAR
JOHN ROBERT SMALL
Happy Happy Happy Day Bob
You are a precious treasure to us Artists. You share so much of yourself and your ideas. Plus you keep Art FUN & fresh c your new ideas every week. I share your BobBlast c all my
Art friends. We LOVE YOU and
THANK YOU
Big 20 second BIRTHDAY HUGs
Happy Birthday Bob! Have a blast and thank you for opening up a colorful world in my world!
Hallo dear Bob
Greatings for Your 80th Birthday June 17. Have a big big Party.
So I will celeprate my 60th Birthday this Day June 17.
I will toast with a sparkling wine on Your Health.
Thank You for Your big Paintertainment all the Years.
Keep the brushes wet.
Astrid from Saarburg/Westgermany
Look at this Flowers: Painted with dishwashing brush, fingers, paper towel ;o)
Happy Birthday Bob!!! Every joy to you on your special day and EVERY day!!! Your smiling eyes and encouragement have made me a better artist and I am grateful. Sending you a HUGE hug from the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia, Canada!
Happy birthday, Bob! You have had a profound effect on me that I can’t begin to express my gratitude for! Thank you! I’m so glad I was able to take your class in Alpena MI in 2011. You’re a wonderful human being and I hope you have a terrific birthday!
Happy birthday, Bob, and thank you for all the great information and inspiration!
Happy, happy birthday to one of my most admired artists! I hope you enjoy your day.
Have a BIG Bob Blast kind of birthday, young man ❣️
Happiest birthday, Bob! I enjoyed your class many years ago and especially the element of joy in painting! Hope you have a grand celebration
God Bless you Bob! You are such a kind person and I’ve very much enjoyed the your limitless inspiration you give to all of us. You are one of God’s very best!
Happiest of birthdays!
Eat lots of cake!!
Happy birthday Bob,
You are a beautiful human being
Have a wonderful day
Happy 80th Birthday from Canada , Bob.
My wife and I have enjoyed your Bob Blasts for years, even if we haven’t been able to attend any of your courses in person.
Your Goof Proof Color wheel and other Studio Charts have been great tools for us.
Thank you for all your tips and creativity ideas you have provided with warmth and good humor all these years.
Wishing you many more years. Dale & Vicki
You are the BEST of the BEST! I’ve learned so much from watching your ‘Bob Blasts”, color wheel & lessons. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! TWENTY YEARS we’ve been watching and learning from you, so thank you for sharing your art knowledge with the world and for your bubbling personality and humor!
I worked 40 years as a graphic designer, hoping to be a painter one day… until I found out about Bob on Youtube and I finally learned how to loosen up! Thanks Bob and happy birthday!
Happy Birthday, Bob! Thank you for your generous and huge impact in the world of art. You’ve kept the artwork serious & the process playful. Keep your brush wet! Cheryl
Wishing you the happiest birthday EVER! You’re only 80 years young. I so enjoyed the workshop at The Villages just as Covid hit in 2020. FYI… One of my ladies “Crowning Glory”, inspired by that workshop, just sold! Still watching your videos every Sunday! Make a wish and blow out the candles! All the very best to you! Linda
I never would have guessed that you are going to be 80. Must be the pleasant attitude you have, which makes those around you feel better too!
Wishing you the happiest of birthdays! And to many, many more!
p.S. love your videos and inspiration
I so appreciate the blogs I have watched. My gift to you is that I will not sing. I do not blog and am the one behind the camera so not much in the way of photos. So…..I will just say: Hope you have a terrific birthday.
All the best,
Trish Haugen
Mountains of Happy Birthday Wishes to you, Bob !!! Your Bob Blasts and Videos have been a great inspiration and education and brought me a “joy of painting” in a loose acrylic style. Looking forward to seeing you again at the end of June 😉 Nancy Whitlock
Happy B’day Bob, What an inspiration you are to the world. And especially we artists – you inspire us to play in the sandbox!
I paint and give your ‘Heart Air Balloons’ every Valentines Day. But one goes to you also on this great celebration of your birth day.
Happy Birthday Mr. Wonderful…
You will always be my inspiration
When you apply paint to the canvas, you become a real freedom rider.
Loving you Mr. Bob, Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday Bob! I so appreciate your generosity, inspiration and artists soul! You are one of a kind and I’m thrilled I’ve been able to learn so many art lessons from you! I use your color wheel regularly and take out my “Permission Slip” when necessary!!!
All the best in your 80th year!
Happy Birthday, Bob…. from Michigan.
I would NEVER have guessed you were 80. I thought you were way younger. It must be your spirit!
I have been watching your Bob Blast for over five years now. Your lessons have really motivated me to just let loose and have fun. I am grateful for your Bob Blast. Hope to watch many more, keep them coming!
Thank you and Happy Birthday.
I painted “Écriture” during one of your workshops, way back in 2012. It remains one of my favorite pieces, as it was proof to myself that I really could throw off restraint and paint with
the joy, exuberance, and lusty color that I learned from you. Thank you for my freedom!
Enjoy this beginning of your next trip around the sun!
Happy birthday, Bob! Love your videos! Thank you from Anchorage, Ak.!! Here’s to many more!
Hey Bob! Happy Birthday to you as you reach LEVEL 8! i have great memories of your classes with Flying Colors in San Miguel de Allende. Wishing you the very best! XOXOXO
Happiest of birthdays Bob. I thoroughly enjoy and learn from your class, blasts and all the notes I took. My b day is June 18th so I will be celebrating with you!! Blessings,Cindy lutz kornet
Hau’oli la Hanau Bob! Your inspiration travels across the ocean to us here on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Wishes for a fabulous 80th!!!!
Lisa
The eighties are great, just keep slinging the paint and showing us how to make the paintings bigger and better!! Enjoy.
Happiest of birthday to you Bob. I enjoy your videos and look forward to them every week. Thank you for all the gifts you give in each one. May this be a great birthday and many many more to come. Keep that brush wet! And moving.
Happy Birthday from an 85 year old. Your videos are an inspiration. Hope you have many happy painting years ahead.
Happy Birthday Bob! Love being your student for so many years. Have followed you around the country to catch your gig. And remember 80 is the new 50! And whenever I wear myTevas I think of you.. Here is Marshmallow singing Happy Birthday to you! Enjoy your day!
Congratulations on your 80th! I’ve been watching your blasts and videos for years and your insistence on having fun painting has been the single biggest influence on my approach to work. You helped take all the anxiety out of painting for me. I wish you many more years of joyful scribbling, layering, spraying, spattering, collaging, and brushing!!
Have a great 80th birthday and stretch out the festivities all year. I’ve been to your workshops and been online with you during COVID. It’s been great fun and I’ve learned so much. Both you and your sidekick Kate offer us a combination of fun and serious learning. Here’s to many more years of fun with art.
Cheers to 80 colorful years, Bob! You’ve been my inspiration for at least 100 of them.
Keep kicking ass! Big love,
Congratulations on your 80th birthday! I wish you continued good health so that you can keep going with your videos, blogs classes, etc. I always learn something new from you!
All the best,
Ruth
Happy Birthday Bob!
You are amazing! Your energy and love of painting has been a great influence on my work.
Wishing you a wonderful birthday and many more!Kathy
Happy 80. birthday Bob!
All the best from Vesna and Rano / Vancouver, BC.
Happiest of Birthdays to you Bob! I hope it’s a Blast!!!
Hi Bob, you sure have a lot of special friends that think a great deal about you.
Please count me as one of them. Happy 80th Birthday to you Bob. You are so darn talented and it is such a pleasure
watching you be so creative. Kindest regards, Bob Birkenes – I just turned 81!
Happy Birthday, Bob! We all wish we could have your “joie de vivre”! You are a blessing to this world and especially, artists. I keep hoping to find the time to have another Bob Burridge workshop…. maybe in a foreign land. All the best to you.
Happy Birthday Bob!!!!!
Sending you best wishes from Montreal 🙂
Hope your day is filled with love & joy … and a little magic 😉
Debbie
We all loved taking your class at Dena’s ranch, such a blast! I wish Kate had been there! I had followed you for years before that and ever since. Thanks for all the great tips and hints over the years!
Happy Birthday, Bob! I hope you have a great 80th, can’t believe you’re 80!
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Happy Birthday Bob! Your YouTube videos have been so helpful and inspiring to me!! Thanks and have a wonderful day and coming year!
Thank you for your many Bob Blasts!! They lift me up each week! I love your free-spirted approach to art!
Happy 80th Bob! You’re always an inspiration. Miss the Mentor workshops. Hope to return later this year. Hugs to you and Kate!
Happy happy day! I hope it is the best ever, for the best ever
Wishing you a joyful birthday doing what you love with those you love. Thank you for being such an inspiration and wonderful teacher. Your impact is far wider than you may know.
Cheers to many more wonderful years to come!
Happy Birthday, Bob! It’s been years since we attended your workshops at Cheap Joe’s, but now look forward to your weekly BobBlasts! Still getting laughs and comments on my autographed Party-Animal!
Happy birthday, Bob. You started me painting again a few years ago. Always learned something new from you and your Bib Blasts. I hope this birthday is very special and filled with lots of love❤️
Happy Birthday, Bob. You make painting tons of fun! Thanks for making it look easy.
Many happy returns, Bob!
Happy birthday Bob. Thanks for sharing all you wonderful words of wisdom. I enjoy all your bobs blast. I hope you have a fabulous year… and many more.
Bob – You bring a big smile to my face every time I watch your videos or take a class. Thanks so much for all you share! You are a gem.
Thank you for your generosity, enthusiasm and talent!!! Loved meeting you at the Smithsonian many years ago – it was a highlight for me!! Happy Birthday!!
I hope to one day meet you in person, I’ve watched every Bob Blast and have learned so much from your positive encourage!! Happiest of birthdays!
Happy Birthday Bob. You have taught me so much….thank you. I felt so lucky to have taken your class in Florida just before everything was shutdown because of Covid. The knowledge I garnered from your class helped me to get through the pandemic…I just kept painting pears and apples….great fun.
you can’t be 80.. i have never met a person who has so much energy. and is willing to share it with everyone. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Birthday Bob! I love your Art. And I appreciate your sharing what you do and why you do it. I’ve taken your classes three times, L❤️VE your weekly Bob Blasts and mostly your infectious encouragement!! Your success has given to many others as well!
Cinda
Happy Birthday Bob and many, many more. Thank you for all the knowledge you share with us every week and your videos on West Business Center. I have learned so much from you and your wife. May you be blessed with good health, love, happiness and contentment for the rest of days.
Happy Birthday Bob! I’m a new follower of Bobs Blast and I truly enjoy watching your videos! So inspiring! Have a blessed birthday
Happy 80 years young Bob! Thank you for what you do.you have re- ignited my artistic flame and I am forever grateful!!
Happy birthday! Really enjoy your “blasts” and appreciate your generosity in sharing you gift of painting with all of us. Found you during the Covid lockdown. Your joyous personality and obvious love of painting brought a ray of sunshine during that challenging time.
HAPPY BEST FUN BIRTHDAY. ART HAS KEPT YOU LOOKING VERY YOUNG!! Thanks for helping all of us learn more about art.
Happy birthday, Bob! I’m so happy you’re still painting. You inspire me infinitely. Thank you for coming to Louisville Kentucky. You really opened my eyes with your creativity and your craziness and your honesty! I have done several paintings that I’ve sold because of your inspiration. Thank you, and have the time of your life on your birthday! Give my best to Kate! I have thought many times you are successful and free to paint because of her. ❤️
Happy Birthday, Bob! You juried one of my watercolor butterflies into an international art show, and I’ve followed you ever since! 80 Years Young! Yay!
Happy birthday Bob, may it be a happy and healthy one.
I have been following you for YEARS ! Lol, not stalking you .
You have taught me so much and I thank you,
I’m in Australia so am unable to go to classes, I appreciate the blast and utube videos.
Have a great day/year.
Happy birthday. Thank you for proving that Art keeps you young no matter what age you are!
Decade birthdays are special milestones. It’s wonderful to help you celebrate the start of another. Your generosity of spirit is so appreciated. You have spoken to mine. Here’s a painting inspired by you. Cheers Bob! And thank you!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BOB! After all these years I’m still enjoying your “classes” online as well as your art on our walls.Thanks for the journey and keep up the good work!
Happy, happy birthday to you! Watching you paint every Monday makes me happy! And seeing your paintings on my walls makes me happy every day! I hope you have a great birthday, filled with joy and laughter, and a wonderful year to come!
Happy Birthday Bob!
You inspire me to work harder and smile more when I paint.
You’re the best. I love the Bob Blast each week.
And you don’t look 80!!!
Blessings to you on this special day.
John 3:16. Doris
Happy Day of Birth Bob. Miss the fun we had in your workshops at Sylvia’s Artbox.
Happy Birthday Bob! Thank you for all you do. I think of you when I imagine a truly happy creative artist. I appreciate all the very helpful blasts, business advice, videos, etc. I wish you all the best!
Happy birthday Bob. We adore you and are so grateful you are in our lives. Thanks for all of the fun adventures to WI, France, Costa Rica, Cuba, Bahamas… and where ever we go next. All of our love the Skotteruds and Robertson’s and the crew at Fillmans-!
Happy 80th Bob!
To quote a line from Clint Eastwood “Don’t let the old man in”. You certainly remain young at heart and keep promoting such youthful, fresh approaches to your art! Thank you for sharing your talents with us. I loved the workshops I’ve taken with you and your “blasts”! Cheers from a Canadian snowbird.
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to, Happy Birthday dear Baaahhhb Happy Birthday to you, and many more!
Happy Birthday Bob! Best wishes of health and joy to you. Cannot believe in the number – 80. It must be wrong. It was my luck that I took your workshop in Salt Lake City, UT some years ago, when I just started painting. You gave me that “permission” and license to create from my heart – and I treasure that to this day. I am very grateful to you for setting up communities, competitions, and shows through the dark covid years. Remember – paint your pet? You were a light! Wishing you more and more years of creativity, energy and love.
Happiest Birthday Bob! I was fortunate to meet you in Calgary Alberta workshop a few years ago. Your generous spirit and teaching have had a huge impact on my art making process. Thank you
Happy Birthday Bob! Younger every year!! I so enjoyed the painting course with you and I’ve continued to work on painting and finally painting abstracts!
All the best,
Will
Happy Birthday. I have enjoyed your videos and seeing how much fun you have. This little painting was done after watching one of your videos. I just had fun and let loose. Thank you!
Happy Birthday Bob! I hope you have a wonderful day celebrating you. Thank you for all you do to inspire the artist within us,
Happy Birthday Bob, 80 years young! I have had the pleasure of following you for years and was glad to spend time with you in Montreal.
May this year bring you much joy, great health and many more creative highs.
All the very best,
Karen
Oh my! Bob, may your birthday day be as amazing as you are. Thank you for all the videos and most of all, the energy and enthusiasm you bring to everything you do. I look forward to your new “Bob Blasts” landing in my in box! Cheers!
Bob-I attended a class of yours in San Diego nearly 20 years ago. It was so much fun and I am grateful for all the techniques, fun, and especially fearlessness you taught! I love this little painting of yours that I purchased at that class. Your Bob Blasts are a bright spot every Monday.
Thank you for ART!
Happy Birthday, Bob! I took your workshop in Hotsprings, Arkansas years ago and loved every day of it! I look forward to your Bob Blast every week and have learned so much from you! Wishing you many more years of health and happiness!
Happpppy Birthday, Bob! May you feel the love of your family, friends, and appreciative students on your birthday and every other day! What an inspiration you are! Thank you for being just exactly who you are. Your creativity and sharing make the world a better place!
Happy birthday Bob. My wish for you, is that you’ll be blessed with good health, so that you can carry on painting for MANY more years. I would have LOVED to be at one of your workshops, but Potchefstroom, South Africa is a little out of your way. Thank that you inspire me every week to carry on painting!
Happy Birthday Bob from the UK.
Your inspiration has been huge in my development as an artist and one of these days I hope to join you on a Mexican workshop when I visit my family there.
Have a great day and keep the Blasts coming!
Happy 80th birthday Bob. Thank you for being such an inspiration and for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm so freely.
BOB,
WHAT A GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENT, AGE 80, YOU DON’T LOOK A DAY OVER 79! THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR BOB’S BLASTS, THEY ARE ALWAYS LOOKED FORWARD TO! HAPPY B’DAY AND TAYLOR IKIN SAYS “BRUSHES UP”!
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Hwrae!
What a joy to celebrate you! I have loved your online classes and appreciate you! Thank you for sharing so easily.
Here’s a greeting via a painting of a pencil stub inspired by your teachings…
Wishing you many more birthdays …good health and good cheer from Chennai!
Happy Birthday Bob. Wishing you many more. Wish I could do an in person workshop. I’m getting there at loosening up and those words have certainly stuck in my mind along with pink!
Enjoy your day. Marilyn in Tasmania, Australia
Happy Birthday! Thanks for the workshops @ Cheap Joe’s that impacted my art career. Greatly appreciate all I learned from you. I have so much gratitude for your teaching demos, as well as your work which hangs in my home as a reminder…short, choppy, strokes. I’m working on a bird series now. All the best!
Esther Sharp, Pawleys Island, SC
Happy birthday Bob! It is because of you that painting is at the core of my life— I paint nearly every day—- have watched ALL of your Bobblasts/have taken 5 classes with you.. you are an inspiration .. love you
Happy birthday Bob ! I watch Bob Blasts every monday since 2020. Do not change ! I love your humor, your energy, your passion, your way of transmitting, your PAINTING.
Merci beaucoup from an artist based in Provence, France☀️
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alles Liebe zum Geburtstag und ein weiteres und noch viele neue erfüllte Lebensjahre.
Ich schaue nun seit mehr als 5 Jahren in Berlin deine wöchentliche Videos und jedes ist eine Inspiration und Freude für mich.
Bleib, wie du bist und Danke
Regina
Happy 80th Birthday Bob! You were the first art teacher I found online many years ago when I started painting. I then took one of your workshops in 2019 in BC. Your kind, down to earth, fearless approach makes learning fun and leaves the artist feeling empowered. Thank you for all the Bob Blasts and videos every week, and all that you offer. You are a real treasure and inspiration both as an artist, teacher and person. Wishing you many more years of health, happiness and art!
Happy Birthday Bob, 80 years old looks very good on you. I love your Bob Blasts.
Happy day, BOB!!!!!
Happy Birthday, Bob! You are so inspiring, thank you for all you do to support artists. I love reading your newsletter and watching your videos. I hope to be able to take a workshop very soon:).
Happy 80th Birthday. I’ve been there and it hardly hurts at all. Ninety pinches a bit.
Your Bob Blasts keep me motivated to paint. You are the greatest!!!
Shirley Blanchard
Happy 80th Birthday, Bob! We are so grateful that you share your art so generously, and give ‘permission’ to create! You are an inspiration to me — and soooo many others as well. Keep on!
Purchase my first piece of Bob work in Sedona years ago! Thanks for sharing your “ blasts” as they are encouraging and keep me focused on free and uninhibited painting! Happy BOB Day
Dear Bob,
Happy 80th birthday!
You are such a blessing to the world. Your wonderful demeanor, happiness and enthusiasm is completely translated into your beautiful, happy, colorful artwork!
Thank you for being you and being such an inspiration to all!
All the best <3 <3 <3
Best wishes for a fabulous birthday, Bob Burridge. You are the man who taught me how to have fun painting and I am forever grateful as you transformed my creative world in the the best way ever! I always think of you when I am painting flowers. My week with you and 30 of our artsy friends in Ocean springs was the best gift I ever gave myself. Happy birthday…..you absolutely ROCK 80!
Hi Bob,
From the Vermont Art Events to the weekly Bob Blasts, you inspire us with your talent for art and fun – two words that go together in your book. Thanks for the lessons. Our very best wishes to you (and Kate). Happy Birthday!
Jo & Len Dongweck
Happy Birthday Bob! I have watched you for a number of years and have benefitted from your color theory–spice colors–and your composition and collage. I particularly like to collage black and white images as they are so striking in your work. Thank you.
Happiest of Birthdays Bob! Thank you for continuing to share your light with us.
“May your hands always be busy
May your feet always be swift
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift
May your heart always be joyful
And may your song always be sung
May you stay forever young” (Bob Dylan)
Happy birthday Bob ,I have had so much FUN watching your teachings over the years and so encouraging to see that you are still strong at 80!!!!!!! Many blessings to you and your wonderful Kate.
thanks so much Carmen from Texas
How wonderful to go from senior citizen to elderly! 80’s are great! Happy birthday. Thanks for all the joy you have brought me and for a much better understanding of color.
Dear Bob,
Happy 80th birthday!
You are such a blessing to the world! Your wonderful demeanor, happiness and enthusiasm is totally translated into your beautiful artwork. Thank you for being you and such an inspiration to all!
All the best,
Marianne Sandstrom
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Happy B’Day…many happy moments ahead. Your Bob Blasts are an important element in my life; I have attended your workshop several times ages ago when living in Florida but at this time am limited to travel (due to old age 97 yo) so enjoy the “Blasts” and keep ‘brushing away’! Thank you…with love and Best Wishes…Eleanor
Happy Birthday Bob!! I have learned so much from you and I so enjoy your youtube videos. Thank you for sharing so much. You are a rock star!
Bob, you have been my inspiration and kickass mentor since 1997. Every day, I am motivated by your BobBlast or the art that surrounds me which you taught me to love. Where would I be without you?
Many more happy birthdays. May you paint for decades to come – 80 is “greaty!”
Love and gratitude always,
Jill
Happy Birthday big Boy!
Hey, Bob. Happy 80th Birthday! I first saw your ads in WATERCOLOR ARTIST magazine. Finally, I thought “who is this guy?” and I started following you and subscribed to your Bob Blasts. You have inspired me to just go do it and have fun. My style has loosened up and I am having fun. Thanks for your example, generosity, and constant encouragement.
Here’s a painting I created that was inspired by your example and instruction.
Happy Birthday, Bob!!! You are the gift that keeps on giving….
Happy Birthday to a great guy! Thanks for sharing your talent & sense of humor. Wishing you good health, happiness & peace. God Bless! Janet Leo
Congrats on reaching the big EIGHT OH! 🙂 Thank you so much for your inspiring videos and classes, you make such a difference. I appreciate your enthusiasm and attitude.
The photo is of a piece I created after watching your figure videos. It’s my third try at it and I’m starting to get the hang of it, and that is thanks to you!
Happy Birthday! 🙂
Happy Birthday Bob! So grateful for you and Kate bringing at classes all over the US for us to enjoy. And grateful that over the past few years you have gone somewhat virtual so I can take more classes from you. Hope you have a great b-day weekend and happy Father’s Day as well!
Happy Birthday Bob!! Loved taking your workshop years ago at the Art Box Studio in Upland. I use your color wheel every time I paint. Your Bob Blast viedo’s are real gems.
Happy birthday Bob! You make the world a better place 🙂
Brilliant blasts Bob always look forward to them .
Happy birthday old chap
Happiest Birthday Bob! I hope you have a wonderful week celebrating your years as an artist, instructor, partner and father.
You are a gift to the art world. You’ve given me so much confidence and support to experiment with different styles and to believe in myself. From all the greetings I’ve read on this post there are many artists you’ve touched.
Thank you for your kindness and patience. Also, many thanks to Kate. You two have created a special haven for all of us.
Cheers!
This is your birthday sssooonnnggg…
It isn’t very lllooonnnggg…
HEY!!!
Wishing you many more artistic trips around the sun!
Cheers,
Susan, TTUMH
(The Truly Unruly Mrs. Harrington)
Ya dont look like 80 but then artists have a habit of looking younger. must be all the fun you are having and spreading around, reminding us that this is the goal. Sure beats art school! Have a great birthday spoiled by your loved ones. We love your energy and je ne sais quoi joie de vivre eh?
Happy Birthday to an extraordinary artist, teacher & mentor Bob! I’ve taken workshops from you in Chico, Key West & Mendocino & love your ability to inspire others! Have another great trip around the sun!
Happy 80th Birthday Bob! Have a super Day! I’m so pleased to have found your Youtube channel whilst searching for ‘how to paint figures’ and found carrots! Joined in and painted them! Then came your abstract florals! Wow! Had a go painting them! Then your moving piece of the ‘Last Flowers of Manet’, wow! Painted 3 of them! Must paint more! Then came the pears, pineapples and fruit stall galore! Painted them all! I even did a zoom floral which was a blast! Thank you sincerely Bob for sharing your talent and infectious enthusiasm! You really are a genius and a true blast of fresh air! Best wishes on your Birthday from La Alpujarra, Grenadine, España! What better to have on your Birthday than some abstract florals in watercolour! I don’t know what they are! I’m not a botanist, I’m a would be artist! Lol!
Happy B’day Bob…………
You make Monday “more funner”!!! Love the Blast!
Happy birthday, Bob! I’m so glad you were born! Since 1997 (!) you have been my guide, inspiration and ass kicker. Thank you for changing my life in the best way possible – where would I be without you? Wishing you many, many more wonderful experiences and birthdays,
Jill
Happy Birthday to a fabulous artist who brings such joy to the world. May it return to you many times over today and beyond. And may good health and many more years of art-making (and teaching) be yours!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOB!!
I still have my “Permission Note” from your workshop 13-14 or more years ago! Thank you for the Bob Blasts. I enjoy them and learn something!
I wish you a wonderful birthday with everything you love! You are very special!
Happiest Birthday Ever! I attended one of your workshops at Cheap Joe’s many years ago and had a “Bob Blast “. I bought one of your 5×7 paintings and it hangs in a place of honor in my studio. I love your weekly Bob Blasts and continue to be inspired. Wishing you many, many years of health, happiness and creativity.
Happy Happy Birthday Bob on this very special day!!! May you have many more and Big Thank You for so many great videos. You are special indeed! ❤️❤️❤️
Bob:
You make every Monday something to look forward to. I learn something new from each Bob Blast and am better for that although I do not always rush to emulate that week’s lesson. I am more of a watercolor guy and representational rather than imaginational. I hold the brush halfway more than at its tip. Abstraction is mostly a mystery to me. And yet…often in the middle of a painting I hear Bob saying something in my head such as “Don’t put your eye out…Don’t stay in one place too long…Leave something for the viewer to finish, etc.” and I realize how much I have been influenced for the better by another Monday session with Bob. Keep the Grace coming. Bill Hill
Wow! Can’t believe you’re going to be the big 80. You’re definitely still rockin Bob.
I am so grateful I found you at the Mendocino Art Center (not that you were lost). Took my first “Loosen up” class there in 2002 and many more classes in the following years. You truly are one of the best teachers I’ve studied with and I love your outlook on making art and life! Hope you have a wonderful birthday with lots of celebrating! I’ll be drinking a toast to you on your big day. Have fun!
Attaching a photo of you circa 1996. Such a handsome dude!
Hi Bob,
I have enjoyed your Bob Blasts so much. My favorite is the one where you painted the three strange faces. For someone who used to paint realistically, this was a revelation. Looks like you have wonderful times in your workshops. I can’t begin to tell you how much I’ve learned.
Happy Birthday!!!
Happiest of all days Bob!! No way you are 80! You don’t look a day over 60. Thank you for all your videos and helpful information. You have taught so many of us so very much. I look forward to your videos every month. Happy day!!
You are the inspiration that keeps my brushes wet and my darks and lights contrasted. Thank you for being an icon in my life…no one has taught me more about the joy of painting than you. Happy Birthday Bob – Big Cheers to you on your 80th !!!
Hi Bob a very happy birthday, you inspire me all the time with the {BB’s Bob blast}which I am so happy to receive here in New Zealand. They give me inspiration and fun, art has to be fun, totally agree. Have a fun day and just carry on till 100 or more. Regards Margriet Bruin
Cheers, may all your next years be wonderful. The thing about art is, I think it is a life-giving force. Perhaps keeps us going for much longer in better quality of life. As a pastelists, your Bob Blasts are still totally relevant and appreciated.
Have a Happy Birthday!
I took a class from you many years ago and bought this painting. I love it!
Happy, Happy Birthday, Bob! I so appreciate all the art info you have so generously shared.
Hey – here’s a tip for YOU! When I turned 60 a few years ago, my husband gave me a cake with a “6” candle on it. I loved it – was great to be 6! I decided that from then on, I’d just add the digits in my age and be that age.:)
So Happy 8th Birthday! 8 is great!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! You inspire me!!!
Can’t believe it was 20yrs ago that I was able to host you and Kate at the Fine Artist Factory in Pasadena.
You have been inspirational and motivational and have helped me explore painting in ways I would never had done on my own. Thank you. It has been a Blast watching you. Happy 80th!
Thank you for putting fun back into ️ I love your Bob Blasts and are so easy to follow and takes the fear out of it. Forever grateful
Happy birthday to a great guy who has influenced so many to be better artists! We love you lots!!!! One cool dude!!!
Your Bob Blast’s are FABULOUS. Your workshop was FABULOUS! YOU are FABULOUS. Thank you for sharing your time, talents and genuine joy of life and art with countless people. Wow!! Well done!!!
HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY TO YOU BOB, MAKE IT ONE FOR THE BOOKS!!!!
AGELESS AND ONE IN A MILLION
YOU HAVE CHANGED OUR LIVES IN A WONDERFUL WAY THRU ART
GOD BLESS YOU
XOXOX
CHARLENE JOBE
Hey Bob! I’m a huge fan of “Bob Blast”. I watch you every chance I can. I’m learning. From Atlanta GA I hope you have a great Birthday.
Happy Birthday Bob!! I look forward to you and your BobBlasts, all just make me smile. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your art. You’re a very special person and I just wanted to thank you and wish you a very happy birthday!
Sheesh! Eighty and you still can’t draw a stick figure! Wishing you health, wealth, happiness and many more birthdays. Thank you for all that you’ve given to us adoring fans.
Hey Bob, Happy Birthday! Thanks for teaching and entertaining us for so many years. We’re counting on many more, too! Enjoy your special day!!!
Thank you Bob! You have helped so many people gain the joy of painting back!
Thank you for making art fun and help many of us heal! (And Love and hugs to you both for all you do)!
Happy,Happy Birthday!
Hi Bob Burridge! Thanks for being a great human who gives so much to the art world. I love seeing your weekly sessions & learn so much from you. Happy Birthday. From Perth, Western Australia.
We really enjoy your BobBlasts right out here in Australia! Keep on keeping on Bob – we love you!
Hartelijk gefeliciteerd Bob !
Groet from the Netherlands ,
God bless you and your family ,
Petra
Happy Birthday Bob!!! Been following you for a number of years, you are my all time favourite artist by far! Your loose, creative, intuitive style of painting is awesome and I’d recognize your style anywhere, it is so unique! I’m from Montreal, and missed a session with you by little. Hopefully I will catch another one at one point, here or in the States! That would be a great gift to give myself! So keep inspiring us, keep painting and see you soon!
So wonderful that you’re almost 80 and you share a birthday with my artist brother, Marcos Dimas! Many, many more birthdays, healthy, happy, and more of you! You’ve been an inspiration for me as well and am happy to say I am one of your fans!
Bob, Happiest of Happy Birthdays! Congratulations on making painting your long game & thank you for sharing all your thoughts, wisdom and experience! Enjoy your special day doing things you love surrounded by your important people. -Travis
Happy Birthday, Bob. OMG, you are almost as old as I am!!
I always look forward to painting with you. Many thanks.
Best Wishes,
Carole Walters
Love your short easy and informative teachings! You make them so fun and interesting! Happy birthday!
You are a gem, Bob. Best wishes for a new birth year of good health, prosperity and much love from family & friends.
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Hey Bob!
Have a wonderful big 80th!!!!! I still have great memories from Boone workshop many years ago! Do something just for YOU and enjoy the day! May you have many more!!!!
Happy Birthday Bob! Thanks for your inspiration, instruction, humor, opportunities and presence for so many of us over the years! I have learned so much from you and look forward to more!
Hope your year ahead is the best yet! My husband says his 80s were his best decade!
Pat Scanlon❤️
Albuquerque
Happy Birthday Bob. Thank you for the ongoing inspiration.
Dear Bob,
You are my favorite art teacher of all time! Thanks a million for all you do!
Happy 80.
Love,
Anne Moses from an island near Seattle
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BOB.
You were so enthusiastic when I played the piano at Dillman’s recently. So I thought I send this as a special gift. Enjoy….again.
Wishing you the best!
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Oh my! So wonderful that I got to hear your beautiful music again ! My eyes filled with tears of happiness, again listening to you play… and seemingly effortlessly. You smile the whole time playing.
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOB!!!!!
Hope you have a super birthday. Hugh and I will raise a glass to you
Sending love and hugs
Hope to see you in 2023
80 is the new 50 you know….
Best Wishes,
Joan and Hugh
ps I couldn’t resist the picture- I knew you when!!!
HAPPY, HAPPY 80th. Another milestone. (I’m a few years behind you.)
Will always remember the workshops I took with you…..the endless enthusiasm….
Thank you for posting on youtube, your monthly demos, and offering online lessons.
May we be together in ART for many more years.
Happy Happy Bday Bob!
Laura.
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Happy Birthday Bob!!
I have known about you for many years and I still watch the Bob Blast every week and see what is new with you. I refer my students and friends to your site all the time. And in many paiinting sessions I hear you give me hints of where to go next.
Thanks so much everything you have given and I look forward to many
Happy Birthday. May you lots more. Love your videos and am learning a lot.
Because of you, I returned to art and it saved my life. I am forever grateful to you and am a forever a “Bobbett”! Happiest of birthdays to you!❤️
Happy Birthday Bob . You have had such an impact on my life and watching your Bob blasts has made me feel you are part of my family .
My best wishes for your health and may you have many more” Blasts “to come 🙂
Hey Popo!
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Happy Birthday!! It’s your Special Day!!
Thank you for bringing color joy to the world. You’re inspiring to everyone who enjoys ART !
Watching you paint is like watching a concert master conduct and orchestra. Wow! Happy Birthday.
HOLY GUACAMOLE!!!!! 80?! You don’t look a day over “Plenty Nine”!!!!! Is Kate going to spank you 80 times with a pinch to grow an inch?! Nah. At our age we shrink, no growing an inch for us!
Take care, stay safe and thanks for all you do for everyone.
Hi Bob I have been following you for about 14 years-I first started with the Artsy Fartsy News-loved that too. I’m turning 80 this year too in August! I hope you celebrate with lots of fun, food and friends ! You have been so generous with putting your ideas out so lots of people can use them. I always tell my students in abstract about you and they look up your techniques. One of my favorite paintings has always been the circus birds-made with ‘skins’. Stay well and happy and Keep Going!! Us 80 year olds have to stay together!!
i have been following you since you started Artsy Fartsy News. Thanks so much for your generous outpouring of knowledge -I love watching and learning. I always tell my abstract students to check out your bob blast. My favorite paintings are the circus birds-so clever to use the ‘skins’. Keep going and have a fabulous BD I’ll be 80 in August too Stay well and walk !!
Wishing you a fabulous day. And start to another year of fun, art and good times!
Happy Birthday, Bob. You’re already halfway to 160! (And I’m right behind you.)
Happy birthday Mr. Blast! Wow, you are a blessed man! And so are we! Best wishes to you from Italy!
Happy Birthday Robert, June 17th was also my moms birthday 🙂 thanks for all your lessons you’re a super inspirator. wish you all the best, greetings from Holland
Happy Birthday, Bob.
Here’s a poem written by a friend of mine on the occasion of his own 80yh birthday.
Happy Birthday to a “one of a kind”! From one of your ever lovin’ Bobettes!
HEY MR BOB, BEEN FOLLOWING YOU FOR YEARS. I DON’T PAINT WITH ACRYLIC BUT IT DOESN’T MATTER AS YOUR INSTRUCTION HAS TAUGHT ME SO MUCH MORE. HAPPY 80th! YOU DESERVE A BREAK TODAY. PEACE OUT…
Happy 80th Birthday Bob! Enjoy your special day! I eagerly anticipate the weekly Bob Blasts with your easy going style and varied abstract techniques. Your experience and wisdom is an inspiration, helping me to paint more loosely and break out of the ‘perfection’ mold. I thank you! Sending best wishes from London, Ontario, Canada eh!
Bob, have a fabulous birthday you’re just gettig started!
Happy Birthday from New Mexico!!! It’s amazing how many lives you’ve touched by so generously sharing your talent, wit, wisdom and joy of life and for reminding us that making art should be fun! Thank you!!!
Happy birthday to you and I hope your day is extra extra special and filled with joy. Your enthusiasm, spirit, talent and art have been so inspirational to me and I am thankful to be able to participate and learn from you. Hugs, Katherine
Congratulations Bob! Thank you for your continued dedication to teaching art, art methodology and fun!
We appreciate and applaud you. You always seem to inspire me.
Happy Healthy Birthday…you are amazing so much energy and wish you all the best forever
Happy Happy Birthday you young stud you!!!!!
Best workshop ever when you came to visit the Utah Watercolor Society. So much to learn while having great fun while doing it. Hope you have the best birthday today, and many more to come. Here is my take away from that workshop, thanks to your inspiration.
80 years young and still young at heart ❤️
Happy Birthday Bob. You’ve been a wonderful instructor and super workshop artist. Thanks for
all the information and enthusiasm. I love the Bob blasts and hope to see you before long.
Bob you are loved and adored by many and I’m thankful to be one of them! You are a blessing and I can’t wait to paint with you again!
Happy Birthday Bob!
Lori
Have a grand birthday, we are in the same league, mine was in April. I hope you survive long enough to read these lovely comments. No doubt you are loved And, not only by Kate!
Much love, Robert and Pam
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Bob!!!! You are a fantastic, lively EIGHTY!!! Happy Birthday, longtime friend!!! May you have just the day you’d like today.
Many many blessings and good things to you!
Susan Connors
Greetings from”Avila Beach”. Met up with you twice in Mexico! Still doing my “knockoffs”. Come stay at my Inn in Roa oke, va. Youll never go back to AG
Have a very happy birthday Bob! We hope to see you again in a future workshop! We had a fabulous time in the Abacos!
Much love to you and Kate!
Patti, David and Elena
Bob, Have a wonderful day and celebrate fully!!! We met long ago at Fallbrook Arts Center. I was taking a class across the hall but was wishing I could have afforded your workshop. I bravely peeked into your room to see what was happening and you saw me and invited me in. You were being your cute and welcoming self and I was hooked. Thank you for being you and inspiring my own work in so many ways. Love to you and all your family on your 80th!
Bon anniversaire Bob ! it’s the B day ! be happy.
love
Have a Fantastic Birthday, Bob! Thanks so much for all the instruction and fun tips in your hundreds of Bob Blasts! I will always remember your Drip Trees Blogs, What a Hoot! Be proud of your 80 years… it’s great to be alive!!!
Happy Birthday, Bob. You’ve accomplished a lot in 80 years — now keep going another 80! I love watching your BobBlasts. Still my favorite lesson is the drippy trees — so fun. And love your emphasis on staying loose — holding the brush at the end to let the brush do the work.
Happy B-day Bob!!! 80 and your in great company … Paul McCarthy is also 80 this month! Thank you for all of your insights and the finesse in the way you share them with your legion of followers. Enjoy the best birthday ever!
Feliz Complícanos Amigo – Roberto – I hope that you are having a spectacular Day – And wish for you many ore years filled with good health, Love, Peace, Happiness, Fun and Creativity! Most of all I wish for you all that your heart of heart desires. I look forward to celebrating with you this coming January at the Casa my friend. Thank you for all the great energy, beauty, creativity and wisdom you share, your generosity of spirit and your friendship. Monica and I both send you Love with big hugs.
Well, I know I’m one of a hundred, but my friend, Karen, and I took several of your workshops in Mendocino, one in San Luis Obispo at the museum, and basically you changed my life. I would not have gone into painting had it not been for your loosening up workshops. After probably 15 years, I now have a studio and hear your teachings in my head all the time.
I also listen to all the Bob Blasts. You just have taught me so much. Thank you Bob! I consider you a mentor and so appreciate your freely passing on all your painting tips, how to think about it, design it, mix it, collage it, clean it, sell it, and mostly enjoy it!
Best, Terri Feinberg
Happy Birthday Bob!!!
Happy Birthday!
I am a fan of your art and of of your weekly videos. Your love of life is infectious, and your message regarding the importance of creativity in our lives is much needed in this world. Thank you so much for your generosity in sharing art lessons and your excitement about the fun of painting. How wonderful to be making the world a better place with your unique, heart-warming personality and talent. Thank you very much and all the best to you in your eighties and beyond!
Happy Birthday Bob!!!
This is Antje from San Francisco
I hope you’re having a wonderful time and just wanted you to know how much you mean to me❣️
Since your workshop with the fab five Lori, Jody, Anja, and Rebecca, I have completed my first ever college classes watercolor 1 and Acrylic 1
All thanks to you. If I hadn’t run into your carrot people online one day I never would’ve even thought of taking an art class!
Summer school Drawing 1 is in full swing ✍️
I’m so glad I decided to go to Arroyo Grande it’s changed my life
Thank you for being a wonderful teacher and Love to you & Kate
Happy Birthday Bob! Hope your day was fabulous. Thank you for sharing your wisdom, time and expertise with us. I enjoy your Bob Blasts as well as your video’s. There is always something inspirational to glean when you share with us. I am grateful for you!
Happy Birthday Bob. You are the Robin Williams of the art world. So glad I discovered you at Art of the Carolinas. You gave us all permission to paint what is in our heart!
Happiest of birthday wishes to you on the occasion of your 80th birthday. You are truly an inspiration and I look forward to your blasts weekly. You have connected with a world of painters. I am so glad I found you as soon as I did.
Lane Heldfond.com
Happy Belated Birthday, Bob. Hope you had a wonderful day and that it’s continuing today.
I have thoroughly enjoyed the onlline demos as well as the online workshop I took recently. Next to swing an in-person workshop with you!
Happy Birthday Weekend.
Linda Young
Happy, Happy Birthday, Bob! Jeff and I hope you had a great day yesterday that will continue all year long! Congratulations on another trip around the sun! WE LOVE YOU!!!
Here is the photo I wanted to use but my scanner was being tempermental! Again – WE LOVE YOU!!!
Bob the universe is a better place because you are in it! Thanks for sharing gifts with us – Happy birthday
It’s not the years in your life but the life in your years.
You are amazing.
Happy Birthday, Bob! I was introduced to your BobBlasts several years ago by a friend, and they have made a huge difference in my creative process. You are an inspiration to me — thank you!
Happy Birthday to the most generous teacher I have ever had! Thank you so much. Love you!!
Happy 80th Bob. I still remember those magic tricks you did at your workshop here in Portland 9 years ago
Hope you had a wonderful birthday and celebrate many more to come. I have enjoyed your Bob Blasts for a couple of years now. They have been very helpful and inspiring.
I was at PCA at the same time you were! Advertising Design ‘65. Small world! My becoming a painter was the most unlikely thing to ever happen, but it’s been great fun.
Happy Birthday, Bob! Thank you and Kate for all the wonderful art, inspirational ideas, and selling tips!! Appreciate your teaching style and methods of encouragement for your students. I taught art, in various schools, for 25 years and noticed that my teaching style is similar to yours! Love getting new ideas for exploring! My husband and I just reached 71 and are feeling good -know you must be feeling ecstatic!! Enjoy this 80th year!!!!
Happy Birthday Bob I really enjoy your newsletters and look forward to them every Monday. Would love to attend your classes but I live in Manitoba Canada and am very old. I still paint all the time and cannot give it up Love your work and suggestions as I am abstract.
OH MY GOSH!!!!!
EIGHTY. 80. QUATRE-VINGTS.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU BOB
☀️
well i’m right behind you.
i struggled through many
of your classes in Mendocino
in the 80’s and 90’s
they were fun
and i learned a lot about color
thank you so much
lots of local people there then
remember Leone Zimmer
she hadn’t painted abstract before
her work was stunning
she was a lovely person
i also took some online classes during Covid which were helpful to me
such a grand celebration
hearts are a wonderful way
for you to say “thank you”
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️to you too
keep on
painting painting painting
i still have a
PERMISSION bracelet
and
a Bobbette pin!
hahaha
Birthday hugs and best wishes
an old Mendo student
Marcia Kinnaird
Happy Birthday, Bob! Wishing you all the best, and looking forward to many more Bob Blasts to come!
Sabine Emma
Hope you had a fabulous birthday, BobYou Rock!
Bob, You have expanded my artistic horizons more than I could have ever imagined. HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY!
Hope to repeat this party in 10 years when you’re 90! You are an amazing man.
Joyeux anniversaire!
De Montréal,
Vous avez vraiment influencé mon art et mon style,
Merci beaucoup,
Francine
Hello Bob!
Congratulations on Your 80th Birthday! I am little bit ahead of you–by about 10 months. Hope we can have some time to paint together again before too long.
Harold
Bob…Happy Belated Birthday!!
I hope you had a wonderful day and that you are still celebrating!!
Thank you so much for your artistic generosity and your sense of humour.
I’m so glad I kept your ad from the 90’s … it’s a real treat – after all these years for me to be finally learning from you.
Best always,
Carol Schmick
Happy belated birthday, Bob! Here’s to many more years of inspiration!
Thank you Bob for your joy of painting!! (and the many wonderful Bob Blasts!) Happy Happy 80th Birthday and I hope to watch you for many more~
Happy belated birthday Bob! May you continue to be a great inspiration for many years to come. Have a great year!
Happy belated birthday Bob!
Your videos are number one with me.
Have a wonderful year ahead!!!
Happy Birthday, Bob!
You are such an inspiration. I have quoted you, used your color wheel and introduced you/your You Tube videos to many. I just appreciate you, your personality, your talent, your teamwork with your wife, and your willingness to share knowledge, ideas and artistic insights. One of my friends/patrons knew how much I adored your talent that she sponsored me that I could attend your workshop here in Sarasota (thank you Mary). To say that you have influenced and touched the lives of many would be an understatement. I hope your day is nearly as special as you are.
Happy Birthday Bob! Take some time to chill; then keep on creating.
Enjoyed several workshops in NC with you a few years ago. Been painting pears and flowers for my hobby ever since. Enjoy your Bob Blasts. You’re an amazing artist and teacher. Your generosity in sharing your knowledge and skills is wonderful. Hope your eighties will be
healthy, happy and your most creative ever. Peg Matsko
Happy, happy birthday! You are a huge inspiration to me-and to zillions of your other groupies, I’m sure! A friend of mine-a wonderful artist who encouraged me to take up painting, was lucky enough to get to attend one of your workshops in Raleigh. (I’m still insanely jealous….) She’d painted in somber tones for many years, but since your workshop, her paintings burst with color and joy. You gave her confidence-and you do the same for me. When I watch your weekly videos, I can’t wait to get to my easel to have fun! Please know how much your generosity of spirit in sharing your gift with the world as you do in these videos, is so deeply appreciated by so many. Rock on, Bob! xxoo
A belated Happy Birthday Bob
I have always loved your art, your Bob Blasts & your happy generous attitude. I watch a Bob Blast to remind myself to have fun in art & teaching. I do art with women in recovery in Santa Barbara & often watch a Bob Blast or 2 to get fired up about cutting to it & making it joyful. You rock. Thank you so very much
Happy Belated Birthday Bob! You got me through the pandemic while alone in my house! You have always inspired me with you positive personality and beautiful artwork. I have just now started an acrylic 1 summer class at UTSA and I’m loving it. – Thanks to you! I am also stilling watching your YOUTUBE videos over and over again.
Thanks soooo much for being YOU!!
A belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY Bob!
I was introduced to your art by a friend many years ago. I’ve used your Handbook to free up my abstract paintings and have enjoyed every Bob Blast lesson and video demonstration. You are an inspiration at ANY AGE!
Wishing you many more years of painting in the best of health.
Thank you so much, Alli Jason, Los Angeles, CA
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BOB!!!! I hope you had a wonderful celebration! I enjoy your Bob Blasts, love your books, and have such fond memories of the workshops I have taken with you, years ago, at Cheap Joe’s! I wish you many more years of painting and joy!!
Hey Bob,
Wishing you the best year ever! Loving all that you have taught me..working away in my studio every day on a series called Sandbar! Thinking of you…
Love,
Karen
What an inspiration! Happy Happy Birthday Blessings to an exciting artist, generous teacher and marvelous human being.❤️ It is a JOY to know and work with you.❤️❤️
Happy belated birthday Bob. I hope it was everything you wished for. Thank you for all your generous sharing and Kates filming – what a duo.
Greetings and blessings from down under and apologies for belated greetings but the 17th June is a celebration in our home as its our wedding anniversary so cheers to an amazing soul that you are.
Cheers
Lavinia S.L
Yes, I know I’m late to the party and I did wish Bob a Happy Birthday on LinkedIn.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOB ! and may you enjoy many more!
I’m a little late to the party, but wishing you a very wonderful Birthday, and many more. From southern Italy! Auguri di buon compleanno caro Bob!
Late to the party but wanted to wish you the best. You’re such an inspiration, in more ways than one. When I can afford it, I want to take one of your workshops, so live long and prosper and have a fabulous day!
Happy Birthday from Central Queensland – great to see the fun you have. I use to work in a kindergarten and I loved their approach to painting. You and they always make me smile and motivate me to stay free with my art. Thanks for taking the time to share with us.
Dear Bob,
I’m Phil, an artist from Belgium. I’m following you since I started to paint in 2014. Your colours, enthousiasm, humour, positivity are an ongoing source of inspiration for me. On this special occasion I would like to wish you a very happy and sound 80th birthday as well as the fire and energy to keep going and enjoy yourself (and us :-)) with the magic you keep sharing!. Enjoy a lot and thanks. Phil
Dear Bob:
Happy 80th birthday, Bob! You are so youthful and energetic, a great inspiration to us all. I know you will continue to teach and paint for many years…right up to the end and we are all so grateful. I have attached a cold wax and oil portrait I did recently.
Thank you!
Deborah
Happy 80th to you, Bob!! You are an inspiration, thanks for your support, humor, and creativity!
Happy 80th Birthday, Bob! You are the boost of energy, positivity, and creativity this world needs! Keep chugging along! May you have many years more of good health and enthusiasm for your art and for sharing with us!
Happy Birthday Wishes, Bob! You are truly the best of the best and that includes your infectious fun~loving personality, humour, kindness, generosity, and encouragement. Your sunshine and enthusiasm shine brightly in your creativity and many have been and are, fortunate to have your presence in their lives. May you have the gifts you wish. Health and happiness to you and your loved ones!
All the best Bob on a milestone birthday. I’m so glad to have this opportunity to tell you how much I appreciate your weekly Blasts. You have inspired and informed my painting with practical lessons and with your infectious enthusiasm. I look forward to taking a workshop with you, online or in person!
Happy belated birthday Bob! I stumbled upon your youtube videos a year ago and have been a fan ever since. Thank you for posting free art tutorials – I’ve learned more from you than in any art class I have taken.
Wishing you good health and happiness in the years ahead – I hope you have many 🙂 !!!
Happy belated birthday, Bob!
You have become part of my morning routine.
Thank you for the inspiration!
Cito
Happy belated birthday, Bob! Love your style and enthusiasm!
Is Joe Walsh your younger brother?
I just found your YouTube videos and am over the moon with excitement to practice every one of your demos. Love your style. You are an inspiration to so many – include me! Hope you had a wonderful birthday. Perhaps I can attend one of your workshops here in Oaxaca. If you make it here, lunch is my treat! Thanks for all the great instruction.
Many happy returns of the day.