Instructional Video 8844 Mountain and Deer
Jerry Yarnell – Inspiration of Painting PBS Television Series
Acrylic Painting Tutorial – 135 Minutes | 18x24 Canvas | Intermediate Level

In this beautiful intermediate acrylic painting lesson from the Jerry Yarnell Inspiration of Painting PBS television series, you’ll learn how to paint a dramatic mountain landscape featuring a majestic deer standing in a peaceful alpine meadow. This scenic wildlife composition captures the quiet beauty of nature with towering snow-capped mountains, tall evergreen trees, colorful wildflowers, and soft atmospheric light.

Jerry demonstrates how to create depth and atmosphere by building distant mountain ranges, soft sky tones, and misty background layers. You’ll learn techniques for painting realistic snow-covered peaks, rocky foreground terrain, and layered evergreen forests that give the landscape a sense of scale and natural perspective.

Jerry also teaches how to paint wildlife into a landscape scene, showing how to develop the structure, form, and natural coloring of the deer so it becomes the focal point of the composition. Careful placement of foreground rocks, grasses, and small flowering plants helps guide the viewer’s eye toward the animal while maintaining balance throughout the painting.

Perfect for artists ready to expand their landscape and wildlife painting skills, this 135-minute instructional lesson teaches valuable techniques for painting mountain scenery, natural lighting, wildlife subjects, and strong landscape composition while completing a striking alpine deer painting.