Over the next few days, I hope to say a word or two about several different literary devices that writers might use to give their writing some punch. My favorite literary device is alliteration. “Laboring, lumbering, laden, and lingering, The Ladybug lollygags along, Her polka-dotted paint shop lags behind.” Ladybug and Damselfly: How They Became…
Tag: Jacki Kellum Picture Books
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…
Who Is Jacki Kellum? Jacki Kellum Acknowledges That Her Picture Book Character, Mrs. Cow, Is In Many Ways, Herself
Jacki Kellum Jacki Kellum’s Garden I am an avid gardener, and I like to paint flowers in my garden. The Last Rose of Summer – Jacki Kellum WatercolorPainting When I have time, I also do fabric art, and invariably, I create a fabric rose for all of my textile art pieces. \ Handmade Fabric Basket…
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…
How My Intuition Wrote My Debut Picture Book: Writing, Painting, & Illustrating by Intuition
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…
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…
Co-Author with Your Elderly Parent: Do Yourself A Favor
“Maybe it’s true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.” ― Phyllis Diller My mother is 93 years old and she lives over 181 miles away from me. To make matters worse, the gap between the two of us is crooked, mountainous, and a slow-go, but…
Miss Maple’s Seeds Are Being Born in My New Front Front Yard
Tomorrow, I’ll begin moving to my new, 125-year-old house in the Ozark Mountains. Yesterday, I was wandering around in my new front yard, and I paused for a moment beside the huge, old tree, where the daffodils are blooming, I knelt low, and I couldn’t help but notice that my big, old tree has a…
How to Make A Picture in Photoshop with the Custom Tools – Kids Do Photoshop Lesson 2
Before I show you how to create a new picture with photoshop, I’d like to tell you something about myself .My name is Jacki Kellum, and I write and illustrate picture books. I am excited that one of my picture books will be published soon. Before now, I have used watercolor paint to create my…
Celebrate Spring with Lois Ehlert’s Book Planting A Rainbow
Although I am living, writing, and painting in the Ozark Mountains now, I was a Children’s Librarian in New Jersey for years before now, and especially during the spring, I miss my work as a Children’s Librarian. New Jersey is certainly colder than the Ozark Mountains, and the snow and black ice and N’oreasters wreak…