Trying to remember an old art show for kids?

When I was in elementary school, our art class mostly consisted of watching these videos of what I THINK was a TV show... it may have been straight-to-video... I'm not sure. But I believe the theme song started out with the host of the show climbing on top of a giant letter A and sitting there and introducing the show... Then there were various forms of art, like he went to a market once and got fruit so that he could draw the fruit... But sometimes it was more focused around animation, or painting, or sculpting...

The host, from what I can remember was kind of quirky and weird, and sort of looked like Richard Dreyfuss.....

I know this is totally obscure and it's really not a good description, but it's bothered me forever trying to think of this, so if you have any ideas- throw them out there