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Paint This with Jerry Yarnell

Website: http://www.yarnellschool.com
Next Airing: Sat, Mar 30th, 2024 at 5:00 AM on UEN-TV

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Jerry Yarnell is launching a whole new series of painting shows. With a calm and reassuring style that is unmatched by any other art instructor, Jerry guides students through fine-art techniques that can be practiced at home. What separates Jerry's new series from his older work is the culmination of his entire career to date (over 30 years) brought to the viewer in the form of his best work ever.

Episodes:

  • Steps to Nowhere, Part 5

    As a conclusion to a wonderful painting Jerry adds final details. #6 bristle brush and dark tone to tap in clock-wise motion to add the airy canopy over the top with leafy effects. Same technique is used to bring the light up in the painting -- for highlighting yellows into base of trees and grasses plus underbrush and saplings. Jerry uses some red to bring eye in toward the steps and to further embed the trees in the natural beauty. Jerry adds weeds in foreground with #4 script brush plus a few saplings at the base of the trees. Now Jerry uses #6 bristle to add brighter colors (orangey-red) to finish off painting plus some green to tap in some yellow-green weed-growth around base and top of steps and wall. Final warm highlights to create soft sunlight and shadows plus with the #4 round sable and using orange and purple Jerry scumbles to put final edges on leaves to make them look more like individual leaves.

    Next Airing: Sat, Mar 30th, 2024 at 5:00 AM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:28:45
    Usage rights: 6/29/2020 to 6/28/2025
  • Introduction to Watercolor, Part 1

    Jerry explains the different types of papers and surfaces to paint on and miscellaneous tips for setting up your palette and painting area plus tools for basic watercolor technique, concepts, and beginning washes.

    Next Airing: Tue, Apr 2nd, 2024 at 4:00 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:28:44
    Usage rights: 7/6/2020 to 7/5/2025
  • Introduction to Watercolor, Part 2

    In episode 2, Jerry continues explaining various tools and techniques and also continues showing how to apply various washes to crate basic landscape objects like distant trees grass, plus scraping techniques to create rocks and other objects like water and reflections. Jerry begins the first basic study painting.

    Next Airing: Tue, Apr 9th, 2024 at 4:00 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:28:44
    Usage rights: 7/6/2020 to 7/5/2025
  • Mallard Duck, Part 1

    Jerry begins the process of starting a new, more-advanced painting Mallard Duck on watercolor board using the hake brush to create a beautiful soft sky with transparent glazes and phase one of the dead tree and pond.

    Next Airing: Tue, Apr 16th, 2024 at 4:00 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:28:44
    Usage rights: 7/6/2020 to 7/5/2025
  • Mallard Duck, Part 2

    In the episode, Jerry continues with the watercolor on watercolor board that he began in the last episode - showing how to use the chisel-edge brushes to paint details like the hollow stump, reflections, grasses, and miscellaneous details.

    Next Airing: Tue, Apr 23rd, 2024 at 4:00 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:28:46
    Usage rights: 7/6/2020 to 7/5/2025
  • Mallard Duck, Part 3

    Jerry takes you through the process of adding final objects to this beautiful painting -- focusing primarily on how to prepare the surface of the painting for painting in the Mallard Duck. He introduces the use of opaque watercolor for final details in finishing this painting.

    Next Airing: Tue, Apr 30th, 2024 at 4:00 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:28:45
    Usage rights: 7/6/2020 to 7/5/2025
  • Silverton's Proud, Part 1

    In his episode, Jerry recaps the processes that were used in episode 1-5. Then he begins explaining how to use 300 lb. watercolor paper to create a small beautiful painting of an old mining building in Silverton, Colorado - using previously discussed procedures while teaching new exciting techniques during the process to underpaint the trees and building.

    Next Airing: Tue, May 7th, 2024 at 4:00 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:28:45
    Usage rights: 7/6/2020 to 7/5/2025
  • Silverton's Proud, Part 2

    In this episode, Jerry continues working on this beautiful old mining building in Silverton, Colorado, showing specific techniques using the chisel-edge brushes to create the doors, windows, and old weathered-wood affects and miscellaneous details - then finishes adding miscellaneous foreground details.

    Next Airing: Tue, May 14th, 2024 at 4:00 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:28:44
    Usage rights: 7/6/2020 to 7/5/2025
  • Silverton's Proud, Part 3

    Jerry finishes the old mining building from Silverton, Colorado, and finishes the painting by painting in the large dead tree and miscellaneous details in the foreground and building. Then Jerry begins showing how to create a beautiful small note card on 90 lb water color paper with monotone colors.

    Next Airing: Tue, May 21st, 2024 at 4:00 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:28:46
    Usage rights: 7/6/2020 to 7/5/2025
  • Mountain High, Part 1

    Jerry begins a beautiful new long horizontal watercolor painting called Mountain High of the Grand Teton Mountains and surrounding landscape. The focus is on watercolor washes to paint the sky, road, and other areas of the landscape with various brushes and a toothbrush for creating pebbles in the road.

    Next Airing: Tue, May 28th, 2024 at 4:00 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:28:44
    Usage rights: 7/6/2020 to 7/5/2025
  • Mountain High, Part 2

    Jerry continues this beautiful horizontal painting of the Grand Tetons - showing how to block in the mountains, cabin, and background trees using the chisel-edge brushes while explaining how the white of the watercolor board acts as the light areas of the painting instead of using white paint.

    Next Airing: Tue, Jun 4th, 2024 at 4:00 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:28:45
    Usage rights: 7/6/2020 to 7/5/2025
  • Mountain High, Part 3

    Jerry takes his viewers through the process of painting in the intermediate details of the landscape starting with the values of distant Pine trees and moving on to the road -- showing how to lift off paint to create rocks. Then Jerry adds final details on mountains and blocks in dead Pine tree.

    Next Airing: Tue, Jun 11th, 2024 at 4:00 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:28:44
    Usage rights: 7/6/2020 to 7/5/2025
  • Mountain High, Part 4

    In this episode Jerry takes his viewers through the final phases of finishing this beautiful Grand Teton painting by adding final details on cabin, plus painting in the fence and other miscellaneous details to give the painting a more completed affect.

    Next Airing: Tue, Jun 18th, 2024 at 4:00 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:28:44
    Usage rights: 7/6/2020 to 7/5/2025
  • Greeting/Christmas Card

    Jerry shows his viewers how to create a beautiful small greeting/Christmas card on 90 lb. watercolor paper showing how to fold and tape down the paper on a masonite board and apply different washes to create a clean, crisp snow scene.

    Next Airing: Tue, Jun 25th, 2024 at 4:00 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:28:44
    Usage rights: 7/6/2020 to 7/5/2025
  • A Yellowstone Wonder, Part 1

    In this wonderful painting Jerry excitedly describes his love for the Yellowstone National Park and the elk as one of the many wonders of that Park. This love of the Wyoming area led Jerry to create today's A Yellowstone Wonder. A beautiful landscape with an elk in the foreground. Jerry is completing this painting in acrylic on an 18x24 stretched canvas. Getting started Jerry uses a pastel pencil to sketch some of the painting features. Then beginning with the #10 bristle brush starts blocking in the background and underpainting for the grassy area leaving no line so as to create soft edges and good eye flow. Switch to #6 bristle brush to create beginnings of shoreline. For remainder of this episode, Jerry uses his famous scrubbing technique to create area for water.

    Length: 00:28:45
    Usage rights: 5/4/2020 to 5/3/2025
  • A Yellowstone Wonder, Part 2

    Jerry continues building the background and underpainting starting with the #10 bristle brush and layering to build the multiple values and colors. Now the #6 bristle brush to work and smudge along the shoreline which will ultimately become an area of fallen logs. Now Jerry adds hot spots to help make the painting come alive, building brighter lights with every contrast of color added. Jerry sketches a few points on the canvas to get a quick idea of the basic location of the elk's body. Finally, Jerry uses #6 bristle to build lights for contrast near sketch of elk so the elk will stand out.

    Length: 00:28:45
    Usage rights: 5/11/2020 to 5/10/2025
  • A Yellowstone Wonder, Part 3

    In this episode, Jerry starts with giving brief tips on drawing the elk and the rule of negative space. Continuing on with underpainting, Jerry uses #6 bristle brush and underpaints the front part of the elk always pulling in or out with your brush to create soft blurry edges. With a little lighter mixture, blocks in the rest of the elk. Switching to the #2 bristle brush, Jerry darkens sections of the elk's ears; then with the #4 chisel-edge brush uses white for the light areas of the ears. Using #4 round or flat sable, uses black to block in eye, nose, chin. Toggling back to the background, create soft colors with #10 bristle and producing highlights with the skimming technique. Jerry inserts highlights which appear to be fallen logs along the shoreline then uses script brush to make stems on the logs. Highlights details are continued for the remainder of the episode.

    Length: 00:28:45
    Usage rights: 5/18/2020 to 5/17/2025
  • A Yellowstone Wonder, Part 4

    Jerry begins detailing the elk. With a #4 chisel-edge brush, works on highlights in the elk's eye, nose, and other facial areas and in some areas forming the suggestion of hair. Shadows areas are a result of the original underpainting and give the image its dimensional form. Then with #6 chisel edge move to highlights on the elk's body to see its form take more shape. Now with #6 chisel-edge brush, Jerry inserts weeds and illustrates importance of light and shadow. Then with #6 chisel-edge brush, tap color to add a grayish-blue, airy, lacey look coming through the reeds. Jerry switches to his #4 script brush to add tall, light colored weeds and pods ... pulling a heavier concentration of weeds around elk. Final highlights include spots on elk's back, and with that Jerry recommends the viewer add as much or as little detail as he/she prefers and add layering and glazing to bring the color of the elk's body up one or two levels.

    Length: 00:28:45
    Usage rights: 5/25/2020 to 5/24/2025
  • Steps to Nowhere, Part 1

    Jerry explains the composition of this beautiful painting and shows the various pieces of reference material which will make up Steps to Nowhere. Using a 16x20 vertical stretched canvas and acrylic medium. Starts with pre-sketch and then begins scumbling with his #10 bristle brush. The painting is an impressionistic, loose technique: creating a suggestion versus the close-up details. Next step is creation of soft distant trees shapes to push trees in background (depth). Jerry uses script brush to lightly add collection of trees in background. To add contrast, Jerry uses #4 or #6 bristle along w/a grayish green to create cedar trees. Then with #4 bristle using rolling circles to add the rolling mist.

    Length: 00:28:45
    Usage rights: 6/1/2020 to 5/31/2025
  • Steps to Nowhere, Part 2

    The underpainting process continues throughout this segment. Jerry continues by lightly sketching the intermediate trees next. Using one of the chisel-edge brushes to create a smudgy effect on some of the trees. Switch to #4 bristle or #6 to work on pathway. Next Jerry reviews light source options and decides light will be coming from left to create cast shadows. Uses a #4 chisel-edge brush to add light to stones and steps (caps and risers) being careful not to make steps look "perfect" cautioning viewers that the steps are very old and need to be crooked. Uses #6 bristle to create open part of foreground w/sand, dirt, and scrubs to create mud.

    Length: 00:28:45
    Usage rights: 6/8/2020 to 6/7/2025
  • Steps to Nowhere, Part 3

    Jerry starts with a brief discussion around inserting a sketch into the painting but moves on to using a #6 bristle brush to create soft sand and dirt. Now Jerry uses the toothbrush technique to splatter ... thus adding the effect of gravel, pebbles and dirt. This also makes the area appear the sun is hitting the pebbles. Now he builds grasses around this area. Uses the #6 bristle brush to create combination of grasses with the 'push' technique. This creates drama. Next Jerry uses the #4 chisel-edge brush to create stacked stones and opportunity for shadows. Similarly uses same technique on the steps... with quick, decisive brush strokes. The remainder of this episode Jerry spends on stonework creating harmony and balance in the painting.

    Length: 00:28:45
    Usage rights: 6/15/2020 to 6/14/2025
  • Steps to Nowhere, Part 4

    In this episode Jerry starts putting in larger trees and details and tweaking the painting. Uses #6 chisel-edge brush with a dark-color mix to fill in foreground and walls .... using sideways painting technique else you'll get a hard line. #6 bristle brush to create suggestion of brush then shadows and sunlight. Adds light on stones giving the shape of the rocks dimension.. and light on the pathway and wall. Next Jerry begins work on leaf patterns starting at the top of the painting with the #6 bristle brush using a tapping technique which overlaps brush strokes and creating a lacy, airy look and warmth gradually adding warmer colors. Then Jerry uses the #4 chisel-edge brush to create bark by 'pulling across' to create pockets. This technique sets the stage for the next and final episode.

    Length: 00:28:45
    Usage rights: 6/22/2020 to 6/21/2025

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