This is the third time that I have launched a Cottage Garden Living website. I began garden blogging at least 10 years ago, but for one reason or another, I would repeatedly suspend that effort. Yet, I have consistently been researching gardening for about 30 years. Last week, I began loading content again to this site, and while I only have a few garden posts on my current garden blog now, I want to pause for a moment and say that I am both an avid cottage gardener and a painter. I rarely, however, do both at the same time. For several years, the byline of this blog was: “To Everything, There Is A Season,” and I could easily say that those words are the mantra of my life.
Although the cleanliness of my house is not a testimony to this fact, I am a bit obsessive about the things that matter to me. Keeping a clean house is low on my priority list, but creating my gardens and painting compete for the top positions. Because I am obsessive both about my gardening and about my art, I have discovered that I can only do one of those things at a time. For me, there are definite seasons for gardening, and the other of my seasons are for art. While I’m gardening, I grow flowers to paint, and while I am not gardening, I paint those flowers.
Several people have asked me if I sell my paintings, and I do, but I am not at all obsessive about business, about showing my art, and/or about making a living. Hopefully, I can correct some of my business weaknesses soon, but following is a short list of some of my flower paintings and/or prints that I currently have for sale. This selection of paintings represent some of the paintings that were inspired by my garden:
Sunflower – Jacki Kellum Watercolor – Original Sold
5 x 7 prints and notecards are available
Price of 5 x 7 print and notecard with envelope – $5.00
Price of 5 x 7 print only – $4.00
Sunflower Blues Jacki Kellum Watercolor – Original Sold
5 x 7 prints and notecards are available
Price of 5 x 7 print and notecard with envelope – $5.00
Price of 5 x 7 print only – $4.00
Sunflowers in a Blue Mason Jar – Original Sold
No Prints Available
Sunflower – Jacki Kellum Acrylic on Paper
Original Small Painting
About 4″ x 5″ – Price of the Original Unframed $100.00
5 x 7 prints and notecards are available
Price of 5 x 7 print and notecard with envelope – $5.00
Price of 5 x 7 print only – $4.00
Pike’s Peak Sunflower Photograph
Jacki Kellum Garden
Pike’s Peak Sunflower is in the back of the above photograph
Jacki Kellum Garden
Black-Eyed Susans – Jacki Kellum Acrylic
Original Sold – No Prints Available
Black-Eyed Susans – Photo
Jacki Kellum Garden
Last Rose of Summer – Jacki Kellum Watercolor – Original Sold
5 x 7 prints and notecards are available
Price of 5 x 7 print and notecard with envelope – $5.00
Price of 5 x 7 print only – $4.00
Pink Rosebud – Jacki Kellum Watercolor – Original Sold
5 x 7 prints and notecards are available
Price of 5 x 7 print and notecard with envelope – $5.00
Price of 5 x 7 print only – $4.00
Gene Boerner Rose – Photograph
Jacki Kellum Garden
Fireball Red Hibiscus – Jacki Kellum Watercolor –
8″ x 8″ Original for Sale – $300 unframed, framed prices are also available.
5 x 7 prints and notecards are available
8 x 10 prints are available.
Price of 5 x 7 print and notecard with envelope – $5.00
Price of 5 x 7 print only – $4.00
Price of 8 x 10 print only – $10.00
Fireball Hibiscus in Jacki Kellum New Jersey Garden – Photograph
Lily – Jacki Kellum Acrylic Original – Sold
Prints are not available.
Stargazer Lilies in Jacki Kellum New Jersey Garden – Photograph
Daffodil in the Rain – Jacki Kellum Watercolor – Original Sold
5 x 7 prints and notecards are available
Price of 5 x 7 print and notecard with envelope – $5.00
Price of 5 x 7 print only – $4.00
Daffodil Looking Up – Jacki Kellum Watercolor – Sold
No prints available at this time
Daffodils and Peter Rabbit in Spring – Photograph
Jacki Kellum Garden
Hollyhocks Just Opening Up – Jacki Kellum Acrylic on Hardboard Panel
8″ x 8″ Original for Sale – $175 unframed
No Prints Available
Pink Hollyhocks – Photograph
Jacki Kellum Garden
Clematis Vine – Jacki Kellum Acrylic
Original Sold – No Prints Available
Clematis – Photograph – Jacki Kellum Garden
Morning Has Broken – Jacki Kellum Acrylic on Hardboard Panel
8″ x 10″ Original for Sale – $250 unframed
No Prints Available
Lemon Thrive Rose – Photograph
Jacki Kellum Garden
I do paint other things than flowers. You can see more of my watercolors at jackikellum.com
Mrs. Cow Is Over the Moon – Jacki Kellum Illustration
Digital – Created on iPad in Procreate and completed on Cintiq 16
But in addition to painting and gardening, I also write and illustrate books for children. Every one of my cow illustrations is a self-portrait:
Mrs. Cow Down On the Farm – Jacki Kellum Illustration
Traditional Watercolor
Jacki Kellum Debut Picture Book to be Released in 2022
One of the greatest blessings of my life is that my debut picture book will be released in 2022, and the even greater news is that my book is being published by Doubleday for Young Readers, which is a division of the Penguin Publishing Empire:
But I am thrilled to say that I’m not illustrating my debut picture book. The fabulous illustrator Sydney Hanson is doing those illustrations.
My debut picture book is the story of how I imagine that the Donkey might have experienced the carrying of Mary to Bethlehem and the angels, the shepherds, the lambs, the kings, the stable, the manger, and the Nativity that unfolded after that. Somehow, I must agree that Sydney’s soft, sweet illustrations are perfect for that book.