Purple Zinnia – Jacki Kellum Watercolor Painting June 13, 2025 The summer of 2025 is my summer of painting zinnias. I love zinnias, and they are relatively easy to draw. I decided painting zinnias would be the least painful way for me to teach myself to paint again. Therefore, I am trying to paint zinnias…
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Understanding the Color Changes in Embroidery and in Painting — To Suggest the Lights and Darks
The Sutesloly Floral Embroidery Project is semi-realistic, and it achieves that degree of realism by its use of layered colors to suggest a degree of shading — to suggest the lights and darks in nature. Notice the Darker Ring Around the Center of the Following Zinnia. Also notice the lightest area at the very center…
Another Summer Bouquet – Jacki Kellum Watercolor Painting
Another Summer Bouquet Jacki Kellum Watercolor Painting Colors Used Item by Item Black-Eyed Susans Cadmium Yellow Light Cadmium Yellow Dark Cadmium Orange Cadmium Red Light Prussian Blue Orange Zinnia Cadmium Yellow Light Cadmium Yellow Dark Cadmium Orange Cadmium Red Light Bee Balm Red Jacob Cline Cadmium Red Light Cadmium Red Dark Opus Bee Balm Foliage…
Complementary Colors – In Jacki Kellum’s Art and Garden
Jacki Kellum Color Wheel – Simplified Moving Clockwise from Top Right toward Bottom Right, the Colors are: 1. Cadmium Yellow Light 2. Cadmium Orange 3. Cadmium Red Light 4. Cadmium Red Dark 4. Red Violet [Mixed from Blue and Opus] Moving Clockwise from Top Left toward Bottom Left, the Colors are: 1. Cadmium Yellow Lemon…
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…