The Secret Garden Illustrated by Inga Moore The Secret Garden Chapter 4 NOTES Morning Has Broken “When she opened her eyes in the morning it was because a young housemaid had come into her room to light the fire .”Burnett, pg. 30 The process of moving out of the darkness has begun. “The walls were…
Month: June 2024
The Secret Garden Chapter 3 – Jacki Kellum Notes – Looking at Lit Free Online Book Club
Illustrated by Inga Moore Jacki Kellum Notes on The Secret Garden During Chapter 3 of The Secret Garden, we begin to see glimmers of light. If you remember, in Chapter 2 of The Secret Garden, Mary was dressed all in black and while she was riding in a carriage toward the gloomy Misselthaite Manor, rain…
Heavenly Blue Morning Glory – The Heirloom My Grandmother Grew – Not a Weed
Washerwoman – Jacki Kellum Watercolor Painting All of her life, my grandmother both washed and rinsed her laundry in galvanized tubs. My grandmother’s wash tubs rested on a small sun porch attached to the back of her house. My grandmother also sewed on that porch, and she made blue calico skirts that she draped around…
What Are the Best Watercolor Brushes? Jacki Kellum Tutorial
I paint almost my entire watercolor paintings with a Princeton Velvet Touch Long Round Brush Size #14
The Secret Garden Chapter 2 – Jacki Kellum Notes – Looking at Lit Free Online Book Club
Jacki Kellum Notes about Chapter 2 of The Secret Garden: The Secret Ga Frances Hodson Burnett Wrote The Secret Garden after the Main Period of Romanticism, but this book echoes many of its tenets. For instance, the Romanticists believed that Nature is a healer, and that is certainly a theme in this book, too. But…
The Secret Garden Chapter 1 – Jacki Kellum Notes – Looking at Lit Free Online Book Club
The Secret Garden Illustrated by Inga Moore CHAPTER I. THERE IS NO ONE LEFT When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair…
The Relatives Came – Perfect Picture Book – Why?
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant Illustrated by Stephen Gammel Cynthia Rylant has written a plethora of successful books for children, and Stephen Gammel’s illustrations never cease to amaze me. I have several books written by Rylant, and I have several books illustrated by Gammel. In my opinion, The Relatives Came is a perfect merger…
Writing Morning Pages – How They Work & Why – The Zen Master Advises to Empty Your Cup
In her book The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron tells would-be creators to write Morning Pages every day, 1. She does not suggest that participants write creatively as part of their Morning Pages. 2. She wants participants to simply write, write, write–to write whatever comes into their minds. The Morning Pages are a Way to Empty…
The Artist’s Way Introduction with Jacki Kellum Notes – Looking at Lit Free Online Book Club
“INTRODUCTION WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME what I do, I usually answer, “I’m a writer-director and I teach these creativity workshops.” The last one interests them. “How can you teach creativity?” they want to know. Defiance fights with curiosity on their faces. “I can’t,” I tell them. “I teach people to let themselves be creative.” “Oh. You…
The Wizard of Oz
Chapter I The Cyclone Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a…