8930 Fall Aspen

In 8930 Fall Aspen, from the Jerry Yarnell Inspiration of Painting PBS television series, Jerry guides beginning artists through a beautiful acrylic painting lesson featuring a glowing autumn forest. This beginner-level lesson is approximately 75 minutes and is painted on an 18 x 24 canvas. The finished painting features a tall aspen tree surrounded by brilliant yellow, orange, and red fall foliage, with soft sunlight filtering through the trees and illuminating the misty woodland distance.

Jerry demonstrates how to establish the forest composition and create convincing depth by controlling values, color, softness, and contrast. You'll learn how lighter, softer trees and foliage can suggest distance while stronger values and sharper details bring the foreground forward. Jerry also demonstrates fine art techniques for creating the soft glowing light that passes through the autumn trees, giving the forest a warm, luminous quality while maintaining the darker shadows needed for dramatic contrast.

As the painting develops, Jerry demonstrates techniques for creating aspen trunks, delicate branches, autumn leaves, distant trees, and layers of colorful forest foliage. The prominent foreground aspen provides a strong focal point, while scattered touches of yellow and orange leaves capture the changing colors of fall. This step-by-step acrylic painting tutorial shows how variations in color, value, edges, and detail can create natural-looking trees and foliage while allowing sunlight to appear to glow through the wooded landscape.

Fall Aspen is an excellent lesson for beginning artists who want to improve their skills in painting trees, autumn foliage, forest depth, sunlight, shadows, and natural woodland scenes. Jerry's step-by-step instruction brings these individual fine art techniques together to create a colorful fall landscape filled with glowing light, depth, atmosphere, and the rich colors of the autumn season.

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