Instructional Video 8959 Ghost Town
Jerry Yarnell – Inspiration of Painting PBS Television Series
Acrylic Painting Tutorial – 160 Minutes | 18x24 Canvas | Intermediate Level

Travel back in time to a quiet mountain settlement where history and nature blend into a peaceful rural landscape. In this engaging intermediate acrylic painting lesson, Jerry Yarnell shows you how to create a nostalgic ghost town scene nestled among soft alpine hills and distant mountain ridges. A weathered multi-story wooden building serves as the focal point, supported by smaller frontier structures and a country church that suggest a once-thriving community now resting in stillness.

Jerry demonstrates how to build depth and atmosphere using layered mountain forms, soft aerial perspective, and subtle color transitions that create distance and realism. You’ll learn techniques for painting aged wood siding, sun-faded textures, and architectural details that give historic buildings character and authenticity. A winding dirt road and rustic bridge guide the viewer’s eye through the composition, while reflective water and vibrant wildflowers add color contrast and visual interest in the foreground.

This lesson also explores balancing warm sunlight with cool shadows to establish mood and depth, creating natural terrain with grasses and wildflowers, and using perspective to lead the eye through a peaceful countryside setting. The result is a story-rich landscape that captures the quiet beauty and timeless charm of an abandoned frontier town.

Perfect for artists ready to expand their skills, this full-length instructional video helps you build confidence in painting architectural subjects, atmospheric landscapes, and expressive rural scenes in Jerry Yarnell’s signature style.

In this lesson you will learn:
• How to paint weathered wood buildings and aged architectural textures
• Creating depth with aerial perspective and layered mountain backgrounds
• Painting rustic roads, bridges, and frontier structures
• Using warm and cool color contrast to establish sunlight and shadow
• Adding vibrant wildflowers and grasses for foreground interest
• Guiding the viewer’s eye through strong composition and perspective

Capture the quiet spirit of a forgotten mountain town while developing advanced techniques for painting architecture, atmosphere, and depth in a realistic acrylic landscape.