Owen Wilson prepped for his role as Carl Nargle, a Bob Ross-inspired painter, by taking an art lesson with his two sons, Robert, 12, and Finn, 9.

Carl Nargle isn’t just stuck as an artist, though he does paint Mount Mansfield over and over again, having decided, after learning that the Burlington Art Museum doesn’t have a single ...

Nargle’s goal is to craft a portrait of Mount Mansfield so perfect that it’s displayed in the Burlington Museum of Art, so at nearly every taping of Paint, Carl paints… Mount Mansfield.

Any resemblance between Carl Nargle and Bob Ross, the real-life PBS host of “The Joy of Painting” (Ross died in 1995, after 11 years of his famously staid broadcasts), is, ...

Owen Wilson knew as much when he signed on for "Paint" (now in theaters), a quirky comedy about a fictional artist named Carl Nargle who stars in a top-rated public access TV show.

Michaela Watkins, left, stars as Katherine with Wendi McClendon-Covey, right, as Wendy in “Paint,” which stars Owen Wilson as Carl Nargle, artist and host of the most popular painting show on ...