Kellie’s drawings express her warmhearted nature. She is comfortable with a variety of subjects but prefers to draw people she cares about. Her favorite approach is to take a picture of a friend or family member and make a drawing based on the photograph. She typically starts with pencil, her line alternately swift and hesitant. She then goes over the line with black pen and finishes with dense fields of heavily applied colored pencil. The figures are often set against an abstract geometric background. Her portraits convey humor as well as dignity.