Paint This with Jerry Yarnell

A Midwest scene depicts a cowboy's life in an impressionistic style.

Sketching in a chuck wagon, horse, cowboy and campfire; doing ellipses to create wagon wheels; irregular brush strokes create the wood and sticks of the campfire.

Blocking in intermediate details including the horse, saddle and cowboys; adding the campfire's glow; detail of the wagon; inserting rocks and reflections in the water.

More work on the chuck wagon; creating the cowboys; weeds, bushes and twigs add proportion to the painting; blocking in the old cast iron pot; adding highlights around the campfire.

Adding final highlights and details; inserting smoke from the campfire; using pure red to brighten up the fire; blending weather elements into the painting.

Preparing the stretched canvas surface for a painting featuring a prairie setting with the Wile E. Coyote; underpainting the entire painting with darker warm earth tones.

Applying multiple layers of short, choppy vertical strokes to create the beginnings of the tall prairie grasses; feathering technique creates multiple values and tones of the grasses.

Bringing up the highlights through the center of the painting; creating the darker and lighter tall weeds; seed pods.

Sketching the coyote with soft-vine charcoal; underpainting the body; adding foreground weeds; applying highlights to the coyote.

Making a rough sketch using soft-vine charcoal; underpainting the sky and distant mountains; blocking in the foreground rocky cliff formation.

Painting in the distant objects including clouds, waterfall, pine trees and rock formations; creating the rugged form of the cliff.

Sketching the main subjects including large dead trees, fallen log, rock formations and grizzly bear; underpainting the foreground objects.

Highlighting the outer form of the bear; using specific brushstrokes to form the rest of the bear's body; highlighting and detailing the logs, brush and weeds.