Complementary Colors – In Jacki Kellum’s Art and Garden

Jacki Kellum Color Wheel – Simplified Moving Clockwise from Top Right toward Bottom Right, the Colors are: 1. Cadmium Yellow Light 2. Cadmium Orange 3. Cadmium Red Light 4. Cadmium Red Dark 4. Red Violet [Mixed from Blue and Opus] Moving Clockwise from Top Left toward Bottom Left, the Colors are: 1. Cadmium Yellow Lemon…

Listening for the Voice of God

A couple of weeks ago, I visited with two ladies who have been friends almost their entire lives. At various times, Estha Mae Coleman Parker and Virginia McKibben Vanlandingham lived and worshiped at the old country church at Pilgrims Rest in Yalobusha County, and now, both of them live only a couple of farms away…

How My Intuition Wrote My Picture Book The Donkey’s Song

When I am painting and when I am writing, I consider it a great day when something within myself takes over and essentially completes my project for me. This gentle urging is intuition. It is the spark that helped Michelangelo release his sculptures from a piece of rock. Janis Joplin – Jacki Kellum Watercolor My…

14-Day Picture Book Challenge Day 2 – Write a PB First Draft in A Stream of Consciousness – What is Writing in a Stream of Conciousness?

Write in Stream of Consciousness to Hush Your Self-Editor Something about writing seems to intimidate and/or frighten many people. Writing in a Stream of Consciousness can help get you past that hurdle of fear of writing. What Is Stream of Consciousness Writing? a person’s thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow….