Paint This with Jerry Yarnell

Overview of palette colors; under-painting the canvas; creating the snow base; loading and rolling the script brush.

Creating distant trees; highlighting on snow; highlighting the snow drifts using a scrubbing technique in middle ground and foreground.

Intermediate highlights and shadows; phase two of highlighting the snow drifts; blocking in the larger trees and fence post.

Finishing dead trees and adding taller weeds; adding light from windows and bright snow on roof; adding tall weeds with warm gold and rust colors; blocking in pheasant.

Painting the final details; highlighting snow on the fence and rail; detailing the pheasant.

Using mottling techniques for distant trees, bushes and weeds; repairing a damaged canvas.

Sketching in the heron; repairing a damaged canvas.

Final details on feathers; finishing the weeds, grasses and tree limbs; repairing a damaged canvas.

Blue bonnet painting includes distant hills, trees, meadows and road.

Highlighting on road and sand; using proper brush strokes to make the road appear flat.

Shaping the bushes and trees; applying first layers of blue bonnets; mixing the proper color for the oak tree leaves.

Highlighting the large oak tree; blocking in red flowers and blue bonnets; painting small rocks; close-up blue bonnets.

Painting the final details including the fence posts and dead tree; weeds; accent highlights; applying reflected highlights on large tree trunks; final close-up flowers/daisies.