How to Paint a City Skyline with Jerry Yarnell | Palette Knife oil painting Full Lesson
Jerry Yarnell School of Fine Art
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Learn how to paint an evening city skyline with river reflections, glowing sky color, and textured palette knife effects with Jerry Yarnell. In this acrylic palette knife tutorial, Jerry demonstrates how to build a cityscape with strong design, layered building shapes, softened reflected light, and expressive texture that gives the painting movement and life.
In this lesson you will learn bold palette knife techniques—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
See the Jerry Yarnell Oil Painting Lessons Playlist here:
Jerry Yarnell Oil Painting Lessons
Jerry Yarnell School of Fine Art "Oil Palette Layout Sheet" - Tells the paints and brushes used by Jerry in his oil painting videos. https://yarnellart.com/oil-palette-la...
If you enjoy this tutorial Please Like 👍, Subscribe 🔔, Share, and leave a Comment - I’d love to read your thoughts in the comments, and see your artwork- Especially Impasto cityscapes!
#PaletteKnifePainting #OilPaintingTutorial #cityscapepainting
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How to Paint a City Skyline with Jerry Yarnell | Palette Knife oil painting Full Lesson
Jerry Yarnell School of Fine Art
8,773 views
Learn how to paint an evening city skyline with river reflections, glowing sky color, and textured palette knife effects with Jerry Yarnell. In this acrylic palette knife tutorial, Jerry demonstrates how to build a cityscape with strong design, layered building shapes, softened reflected light, and expressive texture that gives the painting movement and life.
In this lesson you will learn bold palette knife techniques—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
See the Jerry Yarnell Oil Painting Lessons Playlist here:
Jerry Yarnell Oil Painting Lessons
Jerry Yarnell School of Fine Art "Oil Palette Layout Sheet" - Tells the paints and brushes used by Jerry in his oil painting videos. https://yarnellart.com/oil-palette-la...
If you enjoy this tutorial Please Like 👍, Subscribe 🔔, Share, and leave a Comment - I’d love to read your thoughts in the comments, and see your artwork- Especially Impasto cityscapes!
#PaletteKnifePainting #OilPaintingTutorial #cityscapepainting
city skyline painting, cityscape oil painting, impasto oil painting, river reflection painting, skyline reflections, impressionist oil painting, textured oil painting, painting with a putty knife, palette knife techniques, urban landscape painting, nighttime cityscape painting, window lights painting, water ripples painting, oil painting for beginners, skyline painting, illusion of detail