Readers get to jump into a Bob Ross painting with the new book Bob Ross and Peapod the Squirrel (Running Press) by Robb Pearlman. Peapod the Squirrel needs a new home, so painter Bob Ross creates one that’s just right. Congratulations to our lucky winner Mindy Haffner!
For your chance to win this book in our random drawing, let us know what painting you’d like to jump into. Would you like to
- peer over the Mona Lisa’s shoulder
- float among Monet’s water lilies
- walk in the village in Van Gogh’s Starry Night
- sit at the diner counter in Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks?
If those don’t suit your style, feel free to suggest one that does. Submit a comment to this blog by Thursday, October 3, to be included in that drawing. Good luck!
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I think I might be tempted to jump into a Bob Ross painting. Dangling my feet in the creek by the old water wheel sounds lovely.
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**peer over the Mona Lisa’s shoulder, I saw The Mona Lisa in Paris and I think this sounds fun.
I’d love to float among Monet’s water lilies!
I would love to be in a boat, floating along the Seine River …. watching Renior as he creates the masterpiece La Grenouillère.
I want to sit at the diner in “Nighthawks”. What interesting conversation to be heard!
I would love to float among Monet’s water lilies. It sounds so relaxing.
totally want to gaze at the night sky with Van Gogh!
Tough decision between Starry Night and Water Lillies, but I’ll go with some star gazing with Van Gough!
Definitely taking a walk in the village in Van Gogh’s Starry Night!
Float among Monets water lillies
love Starry Night!
Float along the water lilies sounds quite lovely.
I live to eat so I would like to sit at the diner counter in Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks.
Ha! Good point!
I would love to hang out in the village with the beautiful Starry Night above!
For sure, I would love to walk in the village in Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Then I would go find him, and hug him.
I would like to float among Monet’s water lilies. It sounds very relaxing.
I would enjoy a walk in the village in Van Gogh’s Starry Night.
Definitely gaze at the stars in Starry Night. That piece just amazes me every time I see it.
I’d just like to enter any one of Bob Ross’s “happy little accidents.”
I would like to walk in the village in Van Gogh’s Starry Night!
Looking up at the stars in Van Gogh’s Starry Night had always been a dream of mine.
Water lilies
Look over “Mona Lisa’s” shoulder!
I would love to walk in the village in Van Gogh’s Starry Night. It seems energetic and yet peaceful. I love looking at the stars!
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks because there is something to be said of being in a busy city when all is quiet.
Definitely walk in the village in Van Gogh’s Starry Night!
I’d love to jump into a Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” looks like it would be a quite peaceful painting to jump into. Just gazing up at the stars one cool, breezy evening.
I would like to sneak into Van Gogh’s Starry Night. I have always enjoyed that painting!
As an amateur astronomer, visiting Van Gogh in “Starry Night” would be interesting.
Starry Night walk
Jumping into Monet’s water lilies would be a beautiful and serene place to float and read a favorite book!
Float among Monets water lilies
I would most definitely choose Starry Night. I have always been enamored with that painting.
I would love to float among Monet’s water lilies in that garden.
Who wouldn’t want to step into a Starry Night and walk among the stars!
I would love to sit at the diner late at night and listen to the fascinating stories that are shared by the people inside. I love this picture!
Honestly, I would love to go into the drawing of a 4 or 5 year old child. The creativity they add to their artwork would be fascinating to experience live!
If that answer doesn’t work, I think the Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali. A unique look into a fantasy world.
I would like to jump into Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” so that I can meet and dine with Jesus Christ and His apostles.
I love to jump into a Starry Night and peer up at those stars.
So hard to choose just one, but I have always found Monet’s water lilies calming and meditative.
I would love love love to jump into a Starry Night and peer up at the stars. So peaceful.
Water Lillies always been a favorite Monet!
I would love to float among Monet’s water lilies. It’s become a favorite since my daughter created a mixed-media artwork of that painting.
Peering over the Mona Lisa’s shoulder and ask, “What’s on your mind?”
Peering over the Mona Lisa’s shoulder and ask, “What’s on your mind?”
Definitely Van Gogh’s Starry Night. I always thought I’d feel “SWIRLY ” if I fell into one of his paintings.
I’m a stargazer, so I’ll choose Van Gogh’s Starry Night
Starry Night walk
Then girl with the pearl earring
I would actually like to jump into Escher’s Waterfall! A never ending lazy river! Hoping black and white is ok!
I’d love water lillies. ????
I, too, would want to jump into Starry Night. It’s sure to be set in a village in the south of France where Van Gogh spent a good deal of his life. I love it there and would stay for a vacation!
I’d like to sit at the diner counter in Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks. it looks really interesting and who doesn’t like food?!
I would absolutely love floating among the lilies. It sounds so peaceful!
I would love to peer over Mona Lisa’s shoulder to see why she is almost smiling.
Van Gogh’s Starry Night – I would love to be in the country where the city lights don’t hide the stars.
While Monet is one of my favorite painters, I think I’d like to walk over the bridge in one of his Garden at Giverny paintings and take a look at the water lilies from there. ????