Mrs. Cow Down on the Farm – Traditional Watercolor The Lamb Needs a Haircut One Proud Rooster – Jacki Kellum Illustration – Traditional Watercolor One Tired Rooster – Jacki Kellum Illustration – Traditional Watercolor Piglet Doing Cannon Balls into the Pond – Jacki Kellum Illustration – Traditional Watercolor Gypsy Rose Lee – Jacki Kellum Digital…
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Wacom Cintiq 16 – Pushing My Traditional Watercolor Illustrations to Another Level
Boy with Curls Jacki Kellum Traditional Watercolor Sketch Painted in 2018 I have always liked the wispy, fresh and almost tentative look of watercolor, but I originally trained as an oil painter. In fact, I trained as an abstract expressionist. When I began writing picture books, I switched to watercolor. At that time, traditional watercolor…
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 Use My Cintiq 16 – Which Is Better, Procreate or Wacom Cintiq 16?
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…
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…