Paint This with Jerry Yarnell

Using soft-vine charcoal to sketch in the basic components of the landscape, land masses and mountains; blocking in the sky, mountains and foreground water.

Painting in the clouds; painting in mist in the middle and foreground's grassy meadows; blocking in the first layer of distant pine trees.

Composing and blocking in the rock and boulder formations; painting in pine trees; highlighting the black meadows; painting in the large cliff rock; phase one of the highlights on the boulders.

Highlighting the stream; phase one of the waterfall; underpainting the cabin; blocking in the large dead pine tree; detailing and highlighting the cabin; adding final white highlights on the stream and waterfall.

Applying the final highlights and details on grassy meadows and wildflowers; adding highlights to rocks, water and other objects; finishing the painting with weeds and other details.

Rough sketch of the basic components of the objects and land masses; painting a late evening sunset; underpainting of the distant trees and water.

Details of the teepees; applying highlights on the snow; painting in the intermediate trees; historical information about the construction and purpose of the teepee design.

Applying brighter highlights on the snow; creating frozen ice chunks on the edge of the snowbanks; detailing the teepees and other objects.

Adding clumps of grass, taller weeds, tree limbs and final highlights on the snowdrifts and miscellaneous objects; making the sun's reflection in the water a little brighter.

Painting close-up feathers; mottled background creates the effect of faded or distant pine boughs; detailed pine branches; blocking in the cardinals.

Painting the intermediate pine needles; creating depth; using different shades of greens to create highlights and overlapping pine needles; phase one of the highlights for the main cardinal.

Adding new pine needles around the cardinals; adding brighter highlights on the male and female cardinals; painting the first layers of snow on the pine boughs.

Painting brighter highlights on the snow drifts; adding final highlights and details to the cardinals; adding finishing touches to the pine needles; creating falling snow.