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The late beloved public-TV painter Bob Ross was famously quoted as saying, “Anything we don’t like, we’ll turn it into a happy little tree or something; we don’t make mistakes, we just have happy accidents.”

Across the ocean is another artist with an eye for recognizing and embracing art’s joyful possibilities.

A native of South Korea and a member of South Korea’s Church of Christ, Yongsung Kim paints religious art that often depicts happy sheep and a happy Jesus. And their happiness is no accident—in fact, Yongsung’s choice to paint joyful subjects is very intentional.

“I like to draw the Christ who is beautiful, who is smiling, and who is happy because I like to help people who are suffering heal.

I like to share my talents to help people recover from their pains,” Yongsung explains. “That’s why I decided to draw the happy Christ.”

And it’s that happy Christ that has drawn Latter-day Saints to Yongsung’s ar