Write in Stream of Consciousness to Hush Your Self-Editor Do your efforts to write end with a screeching halt? Does the empty, white page try to stare you down? Don’t allow that to happen! Stand firm and simply begin to write, and at least for your first draft, write in a stream of consciousness. What…
Category: Jacki Kellulm Watercolor
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…
Learning to Illustrate in Procreate – An Analysis of My First Week and 7 Illustrations
Mrs. Cow Down Home – Jacki Kellum Digital Art Procreate App on Ipad Pro with Apple Pencil August 3, 2020 1 week ago, I committed myself to the task of learning how to illustrate on my Ipad Pro with the app Procreate. Fortunately, I already knew how to draw and paint traditionally, and I had…
How I Painted a Tree on My Ipad Pro with the App Procreate and Apple Pencil – Using the Bardot Brush Set Gouache Paintbox
A few years ago, I painted an illustration of a ladybug in watercolor–the traditional way. Ladybug Lou Hollers Yoo-Hoo! – Jacki Kellum Watercolor Illustration When I studied art in college, there was no such thing as an Ipad or a painting app like Procreate. Years later, I have decided to pursue getting some of my…
The Rooster, Who We Have Always Counted Upon to Wake Up the Sun, as Symbol
Last night, I was watching an old movie, and Robert de Niro, as one of the stars, held an egg in his hand and said: “You know, some religions think that the egg is the symbol of the soul, did you know that?” – Angel Heart I immediately thought about a picture book that I admire, First the…