8801 Jerry Yarnell Complete Beginner Acrylic Painting Course

Jerry Yarnell – Inspiration of Painting PBS Television Series

Digital Download Only • 4 Hours 40 Minutes • 5 Complete Lessons • Beginner Level

If you've always wanted to learn acrylic painting but didn't know where to begin, this is the perfect course for you. Available exclusively as a Digital Download, this complete beginner course includes 4 hours and 40 minutes of easy-to-follow instruction as Jerry Yarnell guides you through creating a beautiful, peaceful landscape featuring a reflective lake, a rustic country barn, distant hills, majestic trees, and the warm glow of an early morning or evening sky. Every step is explained in Jerry's clear teaching style that has inspired thousands of beginning artists around the world.

This complete course is divided into five easy-to-follow lessons. You'll begin by learning how to properly set up your palette, paints, and brushes while blocking in the painting. Jerry then teaches how to paint beautiful skies, backgrounds, and atmospheric distance before moving on to trees, rocks, water, and realistic reflections. You'll continue with foreground details, highlighting, and shadows before completing the painting with the finishing touches that bring the entire scene to life. Along the way, Jerry explains every paint color, brush, and technique he uses, making it easy for even first-time painters to follow along.

Designed specifically for beginners, this course builds your confidence one lesson at a time while teaching the essential acrylic painting skills you'll use for years to come. You'll learn color mixing, brush handling, blending, creating depth and distance, painting convincing reflections, and many of the fundamental techniques that form the foundation of successful landscape painting. Jerry explains not only how to paint, but why each technique works, helping you avoid common beginner mistakes and develop skills that carry over into every future painting.

As one of Jerry Yarnell's earliest instructional videos produced for public television, this course was filmed in standard definition rather than today's high-definition format. Don't let that discourage you—the instruction is just as relevant and valuable today as when it was first broadcast. Jerry's timeless lessons on acrylic painting, color mixing, composition, brushwork, and landscape techniques continue to help beginning artists build a solid foundation and gain the confidence to create beautiful paintings of their own.