Paint This with Jerry Yarnell

Creating high mountains by using different shapes; foreground.

Painting rock and a waterfall on a textured canvas.

Developing shelves for the waterfall with a chisel edge brush; masses of boulders.

Capping; making light pop in a painting; personalizing a painting.

Combining warm and cool colors to create a winter scene; blending sky colors; mixing underpainting color directly on the canvas.

Cast shadows; developing an atmosphere using warm and cool colors together; interweaving patches of snow; building groups of weeds.

How to be loose and free with brush strokes; final highlights.

Painting on a textured canvas; creating a stormy sky using the value system.

Multi-step painting; Aspen trees; placing the shadow color of the snow.

Adding the bald eagle; developing the snow of the mountain peaks; accent highlighting adds glow to the painting.

A landscape features trees, running water, distant mountains and dead trees.

Getting rocks under the water; balancing negative space.

Reflections of shapes and colors give the water a wetter look; hotspots.