8896 Fall New England Hillside
Jerry Yarnell – Inspiration of Painting Fine Art Instructional PBS Television Video Series

In this beginner acrylic painting lesson, Jerry guides you step-by-step through creating this beautiful New England autumn landscape on an 18 x 24 canvas during a 104 minute lesson. A classic white country church sits among rolling green hills, colorful fall trees, rustic fences, and scattered rural buildings beneath soft mountain scenery. Brilliant reds, oranges, yellows, and greens capture the warmth of a New England hillside in autumn while the church creates a strong and inviting focal point.

You'll learn how to paint a country church with believable proportions, rooflines, windows, steeple, and architectural details while placing the structure naturally within the surrounding landscape. Jerry demonstrates fine art techniques for developing rolling hills, distant mountains, colorful fall foliage, fences, grassy fields, and rural buildings while creating realistic depth and distance. This step-by-step acrylic painting tutorial also shows how to use softened background colors and stronger foreground details to make the landscape feel spacious and convincing.

Special focus is given to painting country churches, church steeples, fall foliage, autumn trees, rolling hills, rural buildings, fences, grassy fields, distant mountains, and colorful New England scenery using layered acrylic techniques, controlled brushwork, and blended color transitions. You'll also explore techniques for painting bright seasonal foliage without losing harmony, creating soft distant backgrounds, and using architectural details to anchor a broad landscape composition.

By the end of this lesson, you'll gain confidence in painting buildings, autumn trees, rolling countryside, and colorful seasonal landscapes while learning how to combine architecture and nature into a balanced fine art composition. This beginner acrylic painting tutorial is an excellent project for artists wanting to strengthen their landscape painting skills while creating a classic New England fall scene filled with color, warmth, and peaceful rural charm.