Paint This with Jerry Yarnell

Painting the sky and blocking in the water; blocking in the first value of distant grasses; composing the grasses in the middle and foreground.

Adding a hazy fog in the background; blocking in all of the vertical grassy areas; adding reflections and shoreline highlights.

Glazing the water; adding soft sienna tones to the grasses; painting intermediate weeds; arranging Canadian geese to create good eye-flow.

Under-painting the geese; adding taller weeds; detailing the geese.

The purpose for using a gallery wrapped canvas; using reference material to lay out the composition; mottling in the background of bushes and leaves; under-painting the pathway and brick foundation; sketching in the picket fence.

Adding leaves to the background; under-painting the picket fence; creating an elliptical effect of stones on the pathway; under-painting the bricks; painting the large flower pot; smudging in cast shadows.

Background flowers and leaves; adding details on the stone pathway, brick wall, leaves and grasses; blocking in the terracotta pots and adding foliage.

Finishing the fence pickets and horizontal cross-braces; adding highlights on the stone pathway and pots; making different flowers using opaque paint; adding tall weeds and limbs.

Mixing and applying a mauve-blue-gray tint; making a rough sketch of the land contours and basic objects; painting a late evening sunset; painting the first layer of distant trees.

Re-sketching the farmhouse; applying a second layer of snow highlights; blocking in the farmhouse and pine trees; painting in the large pine tree to balance the composition.

Adding the final highlights and details to the farmhouse; adding highlights to the snow drifts; adding shadows of snow on the pine trees; under-painting clumps of grass.

Under-painting the snowman, mailbox post and cream can; drifting up the snow around the snowman; blocking in the straw hat; intermediate details on the mailbox, cream can and post.

Adding features to the snowman's face; adding buttons, scarf and branches for hands; adding a red flag to the mailbox; dabbing fallen snow on the mailbox; adding tall weeds, dead bushes and snow highlights to the pathway.