Boquet in a Blue Canning Jar Jacki Kellum Watercolor Painting I paint almost my entire watercolor paintings with a Princeton Velvetouch Long Round Brush Size #14. In painting the Bouquet in the Blue Jar, I did not switch to the Rigger Detail Brush until the last few strokes. I paint with DaVinci Professional Watercolors. Following…
Month: June 2024
Jacki Kellum Talks about the Light, about Her Paintings, and about Her Picture Book The Donkey’s Song
Note: This is a presentation that I did for a groups of kids at a church’s Bible School Art Camp: Today, I’m going to talk to you about the importance of light. I’ll tell you about how I rely on light in my art and writing, but first, I simply want to talk about light….
Types of Sunflowers – Arranged by Height
Black Russian Image Credit: Survival Seeds Height: 10′ – 15′ Russian Mammoth Image Credit: Burpee Height: 10′ – 12′ Chocolate Cherry Image Credit: Survival Seeds Height: 6′ – 8′ Autumn Beauty Image Credit: Survival Seeds Height: 5′ – 8′ Lemon Queen Image Credit: Survival Seeds Height: 5′ – 9′ Mexican Image Credit: Survival Seeds Height:…
The Secret Garden Chapter 4 – Jacki Kellum Notes – Looking at Lit Free Onine Book Club
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…
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 – Compared to the Weed Ivyleaf Morning Glory
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 [No, not THAT kind of sun porch–just a space with windows to wash her clothes]. My grandmother…
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…