Most Painters Overwork a Cityscape — Jerry Yarnell Shows a Smarter Way in Oil Painting FULL LESSON

Jerry Yarnell goes thick, and impressionistic in this Full Length oil painting Cityscape tutorial using mostly a palette knife, then pulls it together into a beautiful Impasto City Skyline with Reflections. Impasto is a painting technique where paint is applied thickly, often with a palette knife or brush, creating visible, textured strokes that stand out from the surface, giving art depth, and dimension.

In this lesson you will learn how to paint a city skyline by the river using Jerry Yarnell’s bold palette knife technique—thick texture, swirling night sky color, and loose, impressionistic buildings with glowing windows. Jerry focuses on composition, using space, and creating the illusion of detail (not photographic detail) with confident knife work. You’ll learn how palette knife control (angle, pressure, edge) creates crisp building shapes, soft transitions, and water movement.

Medium: Jerry Yarnell uses water-miscible oil paints (or sometimes called water mixable oils) — meaning oils that can be thinned and cleaned up with water rather than solvents. See Jerry's Oil Palette Layout sheet - helpful in arranging your oil paints and giving you an idea of the brushes and supplies you will need to complete an oil painting. https://yarnellart.com/oil-palette-la...

This video is from the Inspiration of Painting PBS art instructional series video (3332 City Skyline) available at Yarnell Art website.

🎨 All of Jerry’s original videos from the Inspiration of Painting and the Jerry Yarnell School of Fine Art PBS educational television art instructional video series are available on DVDs or digital downloads at https://YarnellArt.com

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