Derek Cline is a self-taught painter who paints in the "Bob Ross Style" as he markets it. His landscapes and paintings depart from Ross' style due to the vividness of color and often etheric and supernatural skyskapes in his paintings.

A resident of Kentucky, Cline is a former power lifter and is a fan of early 1980s heavy metal music.

His paintings are readily available on the online selling platform of eBay, and on average he sells 8 - 10 paintings per month, which are all original, and prints are not made.