Yes and no! Bob Ross (1942-1995), the famous landscape painter on PBS with the quiet, patient voice and catchphrases like "happy little trees" and "almighty mountains," never painted anything specifically for a Magic card.

However, in December 2020, Wizards of the Coast released a Secret Lair Drop (SLD) called "Happy Little Gathering," a selection of Basic Lands and one Nonbasic Land with art from the man himself. Unlike other art for cards, they were not commissioned specifically for Magic, but they were used for cards years after his death.

The Basic Lands

There are 10 Basic Lands with art from Ross, two of each Land type.

Plains

The two Plains are mostly as expected: primarily flat, with grasses and a multitude of yellows, greens, and oranges. Both have distant mountains, a signature of Ross' work, and use increasing darkness of color and use of misty areas between planes to differentiate distance.

One of them includes a winding river (Ross regularly said he loved water on his show), and the other includes a fence in a state of disrepair. One interesting fact about his work: only one painting ever included an actual person, and most of the time buildings and human artifacts were old and seemingly abandoned.

Island

The two Islands both use another technique common in Ross' seascapes: a tape line across the middle of the canvas, with the top of the canvas covered in white and the bottom in black; the image is then painted over those base colors. Doing this allows for a clear, crisp horizon line, and the black canvas at the bottom adds a depth of hue not present when white is used as a base.

Both have his classic cloud formations and different colors in the sky, as if at sunset or sunrise. They also both use his technique of capturing a wave, which reads more like fantasy than actual surf, although it certainly is eye-catching. One of them uses a clever technique to make wet sand look reflective.

Swamp

Ross was a nature lover in all ways, and that included parts of the outdoors often overlooked by postcards and nature magazines. Swamps, with their still waters, brown hues, and dead or dying trees, were often a part of Ross' landscapes, and these two offer no exception.

Both demonstrate how rich a swampy landscape can be, with depth of field and dense foliage. Notice how details become sharper toward the foreground of the image, similar to how your eye perceives real life.

Mountain

If you take a Bob Ross painting class, or even randomly tune in to an episode of his show, chances are very good there will be a mountain in the image. Ross' technique of creating mountains using nothing but a palette knife and no pressure to get the paint to break has made many people who felt they couldn't draw a straight line with a ruler feel like real artists.

In both images, the mountains seem to stand watch over a pleasant-looking river valley. In one, two ranges come together with a misty canyon between, inviting exploration.

Forest

Unsurprisingly for Ross, both Forest images include water; one has a peaceful stream, and the other has a waterfall feeding a rapid. Light peers in through the trees as though fighting for survival, and in the distance, over the falls, a mountain juts out into the sky.

Both images are surprisingly dark and filled with dense trees; these are not friendly campsites but deep woods, full of life and teeming with sound and energy.

The Nonbasic Land

The final card in the Secret Lair release was an image for Evolving Wilds, a Land that allows you to tap and sacrifice it to search for a Basic Land card, put it on the Battlefield tapped, and shuffle.

This image includes it all: a snow-covered mountain in the distance reaching to a fluffy cloud-filled sky, a lightly treed grassland at the foot of the mountain, a wave crashing into a pristine beach, and a wooded area off to the left. The image is filled with motion and serenity, a testament to the beauty of nature we can experience.

Final Answer

While Bob Ross never created an image specifically for a Magic card, 11 of his images were used to make 10 Basic Lands and one Evolving Wilds.