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…
Category: Jacki Kellulm Watercolor
How to Create A Collage Post for Instagram in Canva – Without Templates
In this post, I’ll show you how to create a collage in Canva – Without Templates. I’ll show you step-by-step How I created the following collage: Go to canva.com Click to Create an Instagram Post = Step 2. Add Photo Continue adding photos until you have uploaded all that you need. I clicked to add…
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….
Exactly Which Watercolor Paints Does Jacki Kellum Use? Let’s Talk Color Part 2
In this post, I’ll share some tips about which watercolor paints that I buy and how I best use those paints to avoid mixing mud. In terms of brands of watercolor paints, I almost exclusively use DaVinci Watercolors, and I buy the large 37 ml tubes of that paint. I have decided that this is…
Jacki Kellum Watercolor Palette – Let’s Talk Color in Jacki Kellum’s Paintings Part I
Janis Joplin – Jacki Kellum Watercolor Painting Sold – Prints Are Available I painted Janis several years ago, and I told a friend of mine that it might be my best painting of all time. That is not because it looks like Janis and is, therefore, a perfect portrait. In fact, I didn’t even paint…
Jacki Kellum Painting and Drawing Prints Available and Prices
Note: The Cost of Shipping Will be Added to the Cost of the Item These Items Should be Ordered Directly from Jacki Kellum jackikellum@gmail.com I. Baby Cardinal – Watercolor Original 5″ x 7″ print – $4.00 5″ x 7″ print matted $10.00 5″ x 7″ print matted and framed to 8″ x 10″ – $30.00…
Jacki Kellum: A Gallery of Current Art Work & Artistic Statement
I began studying painting in college in 1968, and over the years, I have tried several different materials and several different styles, but my initial training was as an abstract expressionist. Although my current work is more representational, it still bears semblances of my first paintings which were, above all else, expressionistic. Boy with Curls…
Who Is Jacki Kellum? and Why?
“I am part of all that I have met.” – Tennyson – Many years ago, I read Tennyson’s words about how life’s experiences become the core of who we are, and today, as I continue to celebrate my debut picture book, The Donkey’s Song, I thought that I’d tell you a bit more about who…
Super Turkey – Jacki Kellum Digital Illustration – The Evolution of a Character
Super Turkey – Jacki Kellum Digital Illustration Created in Procreate on iPad Pro with Apple Pencil August 16, 2020 If you would have asked me about my art and my illustration routine 3 weeks ago, I would have said nothing about digital illustration. Well, that is not exactly true. I would have said that I…