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Fire in the Fall – Acrylic Online Painting Lesson

Capture the warmth and intensity of autumn in Fire in the Fall, a complete acrylic painting lesson with Tim Gagnon.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to create a vibrant red autumn tree glowing against a soft, atmospheric background. I’ll walk you through the entire painting from start to finish, showing you how to build depth, create natural tree shapes, and develop rich fall color.

One of the main techniques we’ll focus on is negative space. Instead of painting every background tree individually, you’ll learn how to use the spaces between the trees to establish their shapes. This is a great exercise for understanding spacing, composition, and depth, and it’s a technique you can use in many of your future landscape paintings.

You’ll learn how to:

Create a soft, glowing autumn background
Use negative space to form distant trees
Understand spacing and depth within a forest
Build a natural tree trunk and branching structure
Layer vibrant reds, oranges, and darker values to create a fiery fall canopy
Create atmosphere and separation between the foreground and background
Complete the entire acrylic painting step by step

Fire in the Fall is a great lesson for anyone who wants to improve their landscape painting skills while learning new ways to simplify trees and backgrounds.

Follow along at your own pace and create your own beautiful autumn scene from start to finish.

Colors used: Naples Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Titanium White, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Red Light, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Ultramarine Blue

Canvas Size: 24 X 36 (you can use any size canvas)