Since my class is listed as "Pastel Plus" one of my non-pastel students asked me to do an acrylic demo based on a book she got on painting the landscape. The book was written by the man I learned to paint acrylics many years ago on PBS: Jerry Yarnell. He is still on PBS and Create TV after all these many years and he is still a good fundamental type of teacher, the link to his website is in the sidebar under Lerri's Links.
One of the things I think that that my students realized that even though it was an entirely different medium using paint and brushes instead of chalk and fingers, many things still remained the same: Things like composition, color mixing and working from back to front/dark to light all transfer between many of the different mediums with maybe the exception of watercolor (it likes to be different) at least working from dark to light, it is opposite in watercolor.
This is a fun thing for me to do and also to give a shout out to Jerry. He doesn't try to finish a painting in 30 minutes but takes several weeks to go step by step, I try to remember this when I am teaching so I don't lose my students along the way.
I will maybe finish the painting next class so you can see how it all comes together. Just keep painting and I will see you in class.
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| From Jerry Yarnell's book on Landscape Painting. |
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| "Peace be Still" orig by Jerry Yarnell. My demo version. |
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