Becky Kelm's Art & Adventures

My sons and I embarked on a road trip of the 4 main islands that make up mainland Japan. It was a total of 5 weeks long and ended on my Birthday. Please check out the Japan Summer 2025 page for more photos and details of our epic adventure.

Since we have not had a winter to speak of here, and we have been missing it, I thought I’d add these from last year.

 

I love process work. Below are the stages of development of the covert art for the novel Continuous Creation by James H Peterson III.

I used a gouache method of painting using opaque pigments in the form of prismacolor pencils, followed by touch-ups in Adobe Photoshop and page layout in Adobe Illustrator.

And with the help of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator:

This is the nearly complete painting for the cover of the novel Continuous Creation Cover Art by James H. Peterson III.