1203 Autumn Splendor

From the Jerry Yarnell School of Fine Art PBS television series, Jerry guides beginning artists through a beautiful acrylic painting lesson featuring a colorful autumn woodland landscape. This beginner-level lesson is approximately 150 minutes and is painted on an 18 x 24 canvas. The finished painting features a brilliant red autumn tree rising beside sunlit rocky ledges, surrounded by golden fall foliage, delicate branches, and a softly glowing sky. A misty, fog-filled woodland background creates a peaceful atmosphere, while small birds flying above the distant trees add life and movement to the scene.

Jerry demonstrates how to establish the landscape composition and create a convincing sense of depth using changes in value, color, contrast, and detail. You'll learn how to develop a soft, misty forest background with partially obscured trees that appear to fade into the morning fog. By keeping the distant foliage lighter, cooler, and less defined, Jerry creates a beautiful contrast against the stronger foreground elements. He also demonstrates fine art techniques for capturing the warm, glowing sunlight as it filters through the hazy woodland atmosphere.

As the painting develops, Jerry demonstrates techniques for creating rugged rock formations, layered stone ledges, tree trunks, delicate branches, and colorful autumn foliage. Special attention is given to developing the striking red tree and capturing the sunlight illuminating the upper surfaces of the foreground rocks. This step-by-step acrylic painting tutorial explores how carefully placed highlights, shadows, textures, and variations in foliage color help establish realistic rock surfaces and natural-looking fall trees while maintaining the softness of the foggy woodland background.

Autumn Splendor is an excellent lesson for beginning artists who want to improve their skills in painting autumn trees, colorful foliage, realistic rocks, misty forests, glowing sunlight, and atmospheric woodland scenes. Jerry's step-by-step instruction brings these individual fine art techniques together to create a beautiful fall landscape filled with brilliant seasonal colors, natural textures, soft morning mist, and a wonderful sense of depth and atmosphere.

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