8990 A Favorite Place (Acrylic, 110 minute) As featured on PBS in The Inspiration of Painting with Jerry Yarnell. In this full-length beginner acrylic painting lesson you’ll learn how to create a peaceful countryside pond scene filled with soft reflections, vibrant spring greens, and a charming red rowboat resting along the water’s edge.

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Painted on an 18x24 canvas in acrylics, A Favorite Place guides you step-by-step through building depth and atmosphere in a tranquil landscape. Jerry demonstrates how to paint calm water reflections, grassy riverbanks, distant tree lines, and a cozy country cottage nestled in the background. The composition leads the eye gently through the foreground reeds and shoreline into the peaceful pastoral setting beyond.

This beginner-friendly acrylic landscape painting tutorial focuses on foundational techniques including color mixing for natural greens, creating soft skies and distant haze, painting reflective water surfaces, and establishing strong foreground, middle ground, and background separation. You’ll also learn how to paint simple trees, subtle spring foliage, and a rustic wooden boat with convincing highlights and shadows.

Ideal for beginning artists, this step-by-step lesson builds confidence while teaching essential landscape painting skills such as perspective, depth, value control, and brush technique. The calm river setting, warm countryside home, and inviting boat scene make this acrylic painting both relaxing to create and beautiful to display.

Create your own peaceful pond retreat and discover why this lesson truly captures A Favorite Place.