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Say what you want about Bob Ross, but he taught me something fundamental about painting: That schmushing a brush into some paint and then schmushing it on a canvas can make a remarkably realistic-looking (and happy) tree. Before Bob, I thought painters were responsible for every minute brush stroke, every seemingly…