Paint This with Jerry Yarnell

Blocking in a simple horizon for the sunset of the sky; balance; adding values by scrubbing and blending; creating transitional values.

Adding silver lining clouds; sketching elephants; negative space rule for drawing and sketching; scrubbing in dirt and dead grass; building animals from dark to light; smaller baby elephants.

Dry-brush skimming; intermediate highlights; casting shadows to create better form and shape of the animals.

Scrubbing in brush and bushes with a mottling effect; adding weeds; highlighting.

Creating the background for a painting featuring a young male kudu buck.

Using small, soft vine charcoal to sketch the kudu's outline; blocking in the animal and outlining the antlers; adding lighter area to the kudu's neck and body.

Working on the bushes, trees and limbs; adding highlights to branches; shaping the eye, ear, top of the head, nose and face; hairs.

Using a skimming technique to add hair to the animal's chest, neck and face; red tones add dimension and make the kudu look alive; adding weeds to the foreground; adding glow to the kudu's back.

Sketching the outline of the lions; using a skinny stick of soft-vine charcoal to create animals; a rough blocking-in of the lion's eye and head.

Blocking in the second phase of background; blocking in part of the female lion's body and the male's face and body; adding light colored grass; adding highlights to the lion's body.

Intermediate details and highlights; a cast shadow adds more accuracy to the lion's form; adding in tones for sand, dirt, grass; creating broken spots on the log.

Wildlife and grasses; the painting comes together by using techniques including brush pressure, negative space hot spots, skimming and dry-brush blending; advantages of using a dirty palette.

Final details on hair, whiskers, and fur as well as grasses, twigs, foreground and background; adding brighter highlights to the log; adding silver lining to animals.