Paint This with Jerry Yarnell

Differences between a gallery wrap and a traditional canvas; composing a boat dock with a shrimp boat, reflections in the water and a pelican.

Underpainting the grays of the dock and the boat; using turquoise blue and ultramarine deep for the piers and dock; movement of water.

Adding intermediate details for the boat trim, barrels on the dock, items around the boathouse and additional highlighting of the water.

Adding final details to the boat and pelican; making a correction to the design of a painting; creating shrimper's nets on the boat.

Steps that an artist takes to develop a painting; using turquoise deep and ultramarine blue for the painting's background.

Blocking in shapes and painting a perfect circle for the grapes; incorporating a new color, naphthol red, into the painting.

Adding dimension and form to the composition; creating a candlelight glow; developing the apples, grapes and vase.

Bringing up the highlights with multiple layers on each object; deepening the cast shadows on the apple; completing the painting.

Creating a night sky and clouds.

Sanding a canvas; finishing the sky; creating rain clouds, a lightning bolt, the moon; blocking in ocean waves and a sailboat.

Using various colors and glazes to make the water appear to have movement; adding white caps, spray and swells.

Blocking in the shape of the boat and sail; proper technique for painting white; the underpainting of the red portion of the sails; adding glazes to the water.

Finishing the boat sails, the body of the boat and water.