Country Scenes in Acrylic by Jerry Yarnell

Country Scenes in Acrylic by Jerry Yarnell ISBN-13: 9781440350221 Paperback: 114 pages Publisher: North Light Books Released: Jan. 22, 2019

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
Best-selling author, instructor and PBS TV show host, Jerry Yarnell delivers his latest offering with dozens of all new lessons and 8 full step-by-step landscape painting projects. Features detailed materials lists and advice on how to set up a palette. Learn the terms and techniques necessary to achieve your desired effects. Get lessons on color mixing, composition, negative space, perspective, values and more. With his signature, easy-to-follow style, Jerry Yarnell provides the instruction needed to help you learn how to bring life and beauty to your acrylic landscape paintings. He explains techniques for painting the sky, rivers, meadows, flowers, cottages, barns and many other elements of country landscapes and provides easy-to-follow, step-by-step instruction for 8 complete painting demonstrations.


My Review:
Country Scenes in Acrylic is an art instruction book on using acrylic paints to create country landscapes that include buildings. This is a good book for beginners, though perhaps not complete beginners since he didn't include much advice specific to acrylics. His focus was more on painting techniques. He started by describing the specific tools and materials that he recommended and which you will need to complete the demonstration paintings. He defined some painting terms, described various techniques, talked about color, and provided formulas for mixing common colors that will be used in the demonstrations.

He provided step-by-step instructions for 8 country scene paintings that showed how to create buildings (barns, cottages, etc.), fences, flowers, rivers, trees, etc. The instructions and illustrations were clear and easy to follow. Each painting had some new challenges, but the basics of how to achieve each effect was described so it can be achieved with practice. Overall, I'd recommend this book to acrylic painters interested in learning his style of painting landscapes.


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