Acrylic Mountain Masterclass: Snow-Capped Mountains, Dramatic Sky, Fog & Clouds | Jerry Yarnell

Full Length Acrylic Painting Tutorial Jerry Yarnell paints an extreme close-up snow-capped mountain with clouds rolling through, mist/fog, and a soft blended sky.

You’ll learn Jerry’s step-by-step approach how to:

Create cracks, crevices, highlights that give the feeling of depth and distance

Blocking the mountain underpainting and softening edges for easier layering

Using gesso for blending power (so the canvas doesn’t show through)

Building believable fog and haze with dry-brush scrubbing

Using complimentary colors (purple with yellow highlights) to make the mountain glow

Bonus tip from Jerry’s Q&A: how to rescue dried acrylic brushes using denatured alcohol (soak past the ferrule, then soap + water).

This lesson was from the Jerry Yarnell Inspiration of Painting PBS television educational art series (lesson 8863 Mountain Close-up).

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