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About me
Kelly Eddington was a high school art teacher for seventeen years before she decided to pursue painting full-time in 2010. She specializes in detailed watercolor portraits and still life, along with the occasional landscape. Film critic Roger Ebert became an early fan of Eddington’s paintings when he recognized one of his books in the background of Kelly’s portrait of a little girl named Mabel.
Kelly’s YouTube channel has 218,000 subscribers. Her videos inspired art paper giant Strathmore to produce two pads of watercolor paper with step-by-step instructional material and videos by Kelly in 2016. Learn to Paint Watercolor Flowers and Watercolor Basics are designed for people who are new to the medium.
A relatively-recent Illinois transplant, Kelly lives in rural northeast Missouri with her husband Jeff and their cat Pooj. Their self-designed home near Mark Twain Lake is made of styrofoam and steel.
Kelly is a signature member of the Transparent Watercolor Society of America, the Missouri Watercolor Society, the Illinois Watercolor Society, and the Watercolor USA Honor Society, where she is a board member and newsletter editor.
Eddington’s award-winning paintings and prints can be found in private and public collections around the world. Two of her paintings of the rock band U2 are part of The Little Museum Of Dublin’s permanent collection. She has shown her work in numerous one-person shows and group exhibitions in China, Belgium, Spain, Ireland, and the United States, including the Illinois State Museum and the Rock and Roll Hall of
