For as long as I can remember, I have loved color. When I was a tiny child, my favorite thing about the Christmas season was sitting alone in my dark living room and watching the Christmas Tree’s lights bounce around in the panes of the large picture window that fronted my parents’ house. Jacki Kellum…
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Boquet in a Blue Canning Jar – Jacki Kellum Watercolor – Colors and Brushes Used
Boquet in a Blue Canning Jar Jacki Kellum Watercolor Painting I paint almost my entire watercolor paintings with a Princeton Velvetouch Long Round Brush Size #14. In painting the Bouquet in the Blue Jar, I did not switch to the Rigger Detail Brush until the last few strokes. I paint with DaVinci Professional Watercolors. Following…
How I Combined a Watercolor Wash Painting with a Contour Drawing of a Yellow Pepper – Which Paints Do I Use?
Jacki Kellum Watercolor Wash Painting with Contour Drawing It’s January 2, 2023, and I am into Day 2 of my commitment to make some kind of art every day for a year. #ArtyNewYear. Join Me! Jacki Kellum Contour Drawing of a Tomato On Day 1, all I did was contour drawings. I used white cardstock…
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…
I’m Planning My Secret Garden in January – A Garden Always Has a Point
Today, Facebook reminded me that a year ago, on New Year’s Day, I posted about the fact that I was both planning my garden and remembering the lovely Inga Moore’s version of the classic book The Secret Garden that was initially written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. You can read the 1911 Secret Garden online Free…
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…
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…
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…