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Category Archives: Holidays
#Poetry Friday–Inktober day 10 Patterns
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m in with another haiku to accompany my inktober drawing, WIP. Thinking about our encroaching cold weather and all that fluffy snow that fills the ground… The prompt word is pattern. nature’s patterns inspire reflections mirroring beauty … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Writing
Tagged #Inktober2019, animals, Art, beauty, Catherine Wallian Flynn, earth, environment, family, Haiku, Humanity, Jake Parker, Michelle Kogan, nature, patterns, poems, poetry, Ponder, Reading to the Core, reflections, reindeer, thoughts, travel, Truth, Writing
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#Inktober2019 & three stanza haiku
Prompt: build. My ink wash drawing is my vision of the fabric/curtains that may have draped the first tabernacle so very long ago. TABERNACLES OF LOVE build tabernacles of love, deep in your heart… growth will sprout where soil was … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged #Inktober2019, Action, animals, Art, dip pen, earth, environment, family, flowering, friends, Growth, Humanity, humanity hunger pangs, love, Michelle Kogan, Pen and Ink, poems, poetry, Ponder, possibilites, Tabernacle, Truth, washes, Writing
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#Inktober2019 Day 8 and haiku
redline full to gills, treading frail forgiveness… © 2019 Michelle Kogan #Inktober2019 day 8 prompt: frail Thinking about repentance and forgiveness on this Erev Yom Kippur… Here’s the inktober prompt schedule from the originator Jake Parker:
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing
Tagged #Inktober2019, Art, books, Chicago's redline, earth, environment, fish, frail forgiveness, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, Truth, Writing
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#Inktober2019 Day 5 and Haiku
pumpkin palooza– build patience, climb it up towards sky… © Michelle Kogan #Inktober2019 day 5 prompt: build Here’s the inktober prompt schedule from the originator Jake Parker:
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Halloween, Holidays, Home, Nature, pen sketch, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #Inktober2019, Action, Art, earth, family, friends, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, patience, Pen and Ink, poems, poetry, Ponder, pumpkin, reflections, Watercolor, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Inktober & Halloween Cards
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m in with a dual focus today… First I’m participating in #Inktober2019, and along with the ink drawing I’m writing short poems–mostly haikus. I’m also attempting this year to follow Jake Parker’s prompts, (the originator of Inktober … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Halloween, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #Inktober2019, Art, earth, environment, friends, Halloween Cards, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan Fine Art Etsy Shop, poems, Poetry Friday, thoughts, Truth, Writing
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Poetry Friday–4th of July
Happy Poetry Friday and Happy 4th of July! I’m sharing an acrostic poem for the 4th reflecting on American values. And a poem by Emma Lazarus whose poem “The New Colossus” was engraved on the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal in … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Painting, Poem, Writing
Tagged "American Values", "The New Colossus", #PoetryFriday, #WorldWatercolorGroup, #WorldWatercolorMonth, 4th of July, Diversity, Emma LAzarus, Justice, Michelle Kogan, Patricia Stohr-Hunt, The Miss Rumphius Effect
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#PoetryFriday–Healing Valentine’s
Happy Poetry Friday I’ve been writing Valentine haikus this week thinking about all the children and other individuals that have been lost this last year from gun violence. I heard a radio interview from one of the survivors … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Action, animals, Art, books, Children, environment, family, Flowers, Gun violence, Healing Valentine's, Humanity, Jone MacCulloch, Michelle Kogan, nature, poems, poetry, reflections, Remembering lives lost, thoughts, valentines day, Women, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Groundhog & Paradise…
Happy Poetry Friday and Happy Groundhog Day! The snow and cold is getting to be a bit much even for our friendly critter the groundhog. Last I heard he was ready to up and move his growing family to… … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged "WHAT THE WATERS KNOW", #PoetryFriday, Birds of Paradise, cold, dream, groundhog, Groundhog Day, Michelle Kogan, nature, Paradise, Sam Hamill, snow, Tabatha Yeatts, winter
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