Paint This with Jerry Yarnell

Creating a dramatic stormy sky in a painting of a nostaglic red barn; dealing with mold on the palette.

Blocking in the barn, roof, silos and trees; using various greens for the meadows; highlights for trees.

Adding the dimensional form to the silos; highlighting the barn; adding details to create textured, old wood.

Adding details to the fence, broken boards and a gate; brightening the barn with pure pigment; using a script brush to add cracks and holes in the wood of the barn.

Painting Eastern bluebirds on a diptych, two paintings are brought together to make one piece.

Highlighting trees; blocking in the birdhouse, roof and supporting post.

Weathered wood on the birdhouse; brighter highlights; drawing in the smaller branches.

Using turquoise blue, ultramarine blue and burnt umber to create the underpainting of the bluebirds; detailing the feathers.

Highlighting feathers; the completed painting features Eastern bluebirds, a birdhouse and a connecting branch.

Creating multicolored skies as a backdrop for high-rise skyscrapers; creating a horizon line of buildings and their reflection in the water.

Finishing construction of the buildings; placing trees along the shoreline and overlapping some of the building silhouette.

Detailing the buildings; adding lights; connecting the structures of the horizon line.

Adding a haze around the lights in the sky and in the water; painting stars and the moon.