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| Paint Along with Jerry Yarnell Volume One - Painting Basics (Paint Along With Jerry Yarnell, 1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jerry Yarnell
Publisher: North Light Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (20 reviews)
Sales Rank: 88982
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.6 x 0.4
ISBN: 1581800363
Dewey Decimal Number: 751.426
UPC: 035313315923
EAN: 9781581800364
ASIN: 1581800363
Publication Date: September 25, 2000
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Product Description
This book is all about having a great time painting! The first book in a wonderful new series, Painting Basics makes painting landscapes easy! Readers will experience the joy of painting for pure pleasure as Jerry Yarnell guides them through each step of the 10 detailed step-by-step projects. No previous experience is necessary. All the artist has to do is follow along with Jerry to create a beautiful landscape in acrylics in 15 steps. The first book begins with a short introduction then guides the reader in the selection of the right paints, tools, and surfaces, along with just enough background information to make following Jerry's step-by-step instructions even easier and more fun.
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 Excellent Insight and Motivation June 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jerry Yarnell is a versatile and talented painter who has written a number of excellent "how to" books and this one is as good as the rest. Just looking at his beautiful work is enough to provide motivation and inspiration.
The book is divided into several interesting projects / paintings, each of which is supplemented with step-by-step instructions that show how to develop the painting.
A beginning painter will find the insight offered by the the instructions to be invaluable in deciding how to choose a brush, mix paints, apply paint to the brush, execute a brush stroke for a specific purpose, and countless other fundamentals.
It is not expected that the student's painting will be a replica of the master's. But the vast knowledge imparted here by Mr. Yarnell will help any interested and properly motivated person peer into the mind of a great painter and benefit from the wisdom of his life of devoted and passionate artistry.
 Very Disappointing February 8, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I was terribly disappointed in this book. I can't believe he sells this stuff. Every sky is lurid orange and purple, every landscape is palpably phoney and is created by using every color in the paint box. I never saw him on TV. I wish I had. I would not have wasted my money. Cassie
To get the most from this book.... February 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have already worked through half of the projects in this book and am amazed at the detail and finished quality I have achieved.
One thing I would highly recommend is to get hold of at least one of Jerry's instructional DVDs as well. I found that once I had watched him using the techniques he describes in the book, a light clicked on in my head and the books became an even more valuable resource.
If you want to learn acrylic painting or improve your skills by discovering some of the tricks or secrets experienced artists use, then this book is an essential addition to your library.
 Painting basics---not! January 29, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book like so many so-called beginner's acrylics books follows the usual pattern: a chapter on materials and then an immediate huge jump into technique. It is interesting to note that the author's suggested palette contains eleven colors, three of which are not particularly light fast. After this chapter he dives into the first of ten demonstration paintings. These painting are all extremely complex and large undertakings on 16x20" canvases. I predict that most beginners are going to get lost early on in the first painting a flick it in. Maybe after I find some way to get the basics down, I'll come back to some of the Yarnell books, though I find his style rather garish.
As my growing collection of unsatisfactory "beginner's" acrylics shows (the nearest big bookstore is almost three hours away) there is a huge difference between a gifted artist and a gifted art teacher, though in fairness what is probably lacking are gifted art instruction authors. When writing these books they apparently don't have any reader feedback (why not?) who could slow them down by asking questions like how do I thin the paint, how thing should it be, what's the best way to mix colors, how do I clean the brushes, how do I keep the paint from drying out on my palette or my painting, etc., etc., etc.
The only painting book I've found so far which can truly claim to be a beginner's book is Jack Reid's "Watercolor Basics: Let's Get Started". That book is full of exercise paintings that let the reader learn a technique on a simple painting; the paintings are simple enough so that the beginner doesn't get lost in the detail yet have some artistic character. There are also beginner's drawing books that really do start from zero and build up the reader's technique.
Jerry Yarnell The Adventure January 25, 2008
I love this artist. I have watched him on PBS for years. The book has every detail to help anybody to get started in painting. The pictures of the paintings is very helpful too.
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