Mrs. Cow Down Home – Jacki Kellum Illustration Created with the App Procreate on an Ipad Pro About two weeks ago, I decided to make some radical changes to my illustrating routine, and I began teaching myself how to create digitally. I began my journey with my iPad Pro and the app Procreate. At the…
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At the Age of 70, I Decided to Give Digital Art a Whirl – Comparing 6 of My First Illustrations in Procreate and Painted Traditionally
When I was studying art in college, my painting teachers were altogether suspicious of illustration. They did not consider it true art, and they believed that Walt Disney was a charlatan. But things have radically changed since then. That was fifty years ago. Forty years ago, when I was teaching art in a plush private…
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…
I Nominate the Owl and the Pussy Cat and the Cow Who Jumped Over the Moon as Literature’s Greatest Heros
No doubt, the cow that jumped over the moon has inspired many a poet, artist, illustrator, and just plain visionary and/or liver-of-life. Because the words are very common, we might tend to overlook them as literature, but allow me to remind you how very, very good this poem is: Hey, diddle, diddle, BY MOTHER GOOSE…