When you realize that drawing and shading tree trunks and limbs is nothing more than drawing and shading a series of cylinders, your effort to draw trees will become simpler.
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The Wednesday Way — A Free Online Event Challenge for Blocked Creatives
Beginning today, Jacki Kellum will offer a free online challenge: Write Morning Pages to restore your inner balance, to restore your creativity, and to make yourself whole. Although writing is the vehicle for this restoration, Writing Morning Pages is not about creative writing–it is not merely for writers. Writing Morning Pages is an activity that…
Jacki Kellum Will Begin Teaching Watercolor Classes the First Week of January 2026
Jacki Kellum Watercolor Classes Begin this Week. Classes available for mornings, afternoons, and nights. Forest Daffodil – Jacki Kellum Watercolor. My new watercolor students will paint this tomorrow at 9:30. More classes available–including a night class. It is not too late to get into a class. Call or text now: Class Cost: $35 per class,…
For Auld Lang Syne – For Old Time’s Sake – Honoring My Past, Cherishing My Present, and Looking Forward
If you sang For Auld Lang Syne last night, you should thank the 18th Century Scots Poet Robert Burns for the lyrics. “Auld Lang Syne” is a Scots phrase meaning “old long since,” or more poetically, “for old time’s sake,” referring to times long past and cherished friendships, with the song urging us to remember…
Seeking to Find My Balance in the New Year
“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.”― Jelaluddin Rumi , The Essential Rumi It’s not a new thing for me — Every…
How to Make A Wreath from Things around Your House and Evergreens from Your Yard
I have just celebrated the first-ever Christmas and/or Advent wreath-making workshop FREE at Jacki Kellum Studios in Water Valley Mississippi. First Step for Wreath-Making: Find Something Round – Be Creative Second Step for Wreath-Making is: Wire Evergreens to Your Form Third Step for Wreath-Making: Believe that Everyone Can Make Art — Even You! When I…
How to Write & Illustrate a Picture Book – Exhibit at Jacki Kellum Studios – Classes Beginning in January
In November, Jacki Kellum Studios Opened at 32 South Main Water Valley, Misssissippi Today, I am finisihing hanging a new exhibition at Jacki Kellum Studios in Water Valley, Mississippi – Illustrating a Picture Book – The Process – From rough sketches to hyper-realistic studies to the magic. The work on exhibition focuses on my books…
Jacki Kellum Watercolor Classes: Learn to Express Yourself with Color
Jacki Kellum Will Begin Teaching Watercolor Classes the First Week of November [2025] at 32 South Main in Water Valley, MS. One Weekly Class is Scheduled to Begin on Monday. November 3. from 10:00 – 11:30. You may call to join that class, or if you prefer another time and/or day, contact Jacki Kellum about…
Jacki Kellum Prints of Paintings for Sale
At this point, I only have prints available of my watercolors. But I’ll have several prints of each of the following [and more] available to purchase, beginning November 1 – when Jacki Kellum Studios re-opens at 32 South Main in Water Valley Mississippi . Jacki Kellum Studios Will be Open for Each of the Following…