Instructional Video 8923 Grand Daddy's Mill
Jerry Yarnell – Inspiration of Painting PBS Television Series
Acrylic Painting Tutorial – 155 Minutes | 18x24 Canvas | Intermediate Level

In this detailed intermediate acrylic painting lesson from the Jerry Yarnell Inspiration of Painting PBS television series, you’ll learn how to paint a nostalgic rural landscape featuring a charming red watermill beside a flowing country stream. This peaceful countryside painting captures the character of traditional watermills, rustic country roads, and vibrant spring vegetation while demonstrating Jerry Yarnell’s step-by-step acrylic painting techniques.

Working step-by-step on an 18x24 canvas, Jerry shows how to build a strong landscape composition beginning with distant hills and atmospheric sky before developing the foreground creek, rocky banks, and colorful wildflowers. Along the way you’ll learn how to paint realistic water reflections, flowing stream movement, and the detailed wooden mill structure complete with a traditional water wheel and rustic architectural textures.

Jerry also demonstrates how to create depth and eye-flow by adding a winding dirt road that leads the viewer naturally into the countryside scene. Careful balance of warm and cool colors helps create natural sunlight, while grasses, shrubs, and flowering plants frame the mill and guide the viewer’s eye throughout this tranquil rural landscape.

Perfect for artists ready to expand their acrylic landscape painting skills, this 155-minute instructional lesson teaches techniques for painting realistic water reflections, rustic wooden buildings, countryside scenery, and harmonious landscape color while completing a beautiful traditional mill painting.