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Category Archives: pen sketch
#Poetry Friday-Bookmarks and trying to stay steady…
Happy Poetry Friday! In the midst of all the election anxiety I bring you a literary break with a peek into a few items I’ve added to my Etsy Shop, and more that are on their way there… Emilys been … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Exhibits, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Poetry Books, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #haikuforhope, #Poetic Diversion, #PoetryFriday, artist, Bookmarks, drawing, Election Anxiety, Emily Dickinson, Evanston Art Center EXPO 2020, Holiday Shows, Mary Lee Hahn, Michelle Kogan, Molly Hogan, Painting, Pen and Ink, snowflakes, Susan Bruck
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Poetry Friday–Naani’s, blueness, & Halloween…
Happy Poetry Friday! Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Vote Blue Oh ya, this week some of us … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing
Tagged #Poetry Friday, Altruism, artist, change, Democracy, Desafinado, Evalyn Callahan Shaw, fall, Linda Baie, Michelle Kogan, Naani, Norah Jones, November, Painting, Pen and Ink, poems, poetry, Tanita S. Davis, Vote Blue, Watercolor, Writer
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#Poetry Friday–TREES BREATH & Online Art Exhibit
Happy Poetry Friday! I’ve been thinking about …space in poems… negative space, tree’s space, and people’s space… Above is the flyer for an online exhibit I’m in, Where Are We Now? Activism of the Everyday, An International Juried Virtual … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Exhibits, Home, Nature, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, An International Juried Virtual Exhibition of Art by Women, Art Exhibit, breath, change, Jama Rattigan, Jama's Alphabet Soup, Meet the Artist Live Virtual Event, Michelle Kogan, nature, Negative SPce, poems, poetry, trees, Vote
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#Poetry Friday–Letter Poem for my Dad on #Inktober day 15
Happy Poetry Friday! My Father’s Birthday was this week, he would have been 91 years old this year. He also passed away 4 years ago the week of Halloween. I think about him all the time, but I like to … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, pen sketch, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #inktober, #inktober 2020, #PoetryFriday, covid-19, Janice Skully, Letter Poem, Memories, Michelle Kogan, pen sketch, stardust, Vote, warercolor
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#inktober2020 day 10 and #haiku.
remember VOTEremember humanityremember VOTE©️ 2020 Michelle Kogan
Posted in Home, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged #inktober, Action, Art, drawing, earth, environment, family, Haiku, Humanity, ladyliberty #VOTE #remember #humanity #Democracy #art #covidart, Michelle Kogan, pen, poems, poetry, reflections, sketch, thoughts, Truth, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Summer Poem Swap & Zinnias for #INKTOBER
falls fading garden bursts zinnia’s bedazzling blooms © 2020 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday, Happy Fall and Happy Inktober! I’m taking a break from the din of our world to share with you a summer poem swap from Ruth Hersey, … Continue reading
Poetry Friday–RBG
Happy Poetry Friday!(typed with a slight sigh, from this last week…) What a week… This week for Poetry Friday there were two prompt suggestions. One came a while back from Tanita Davis one of the Poetry Sisters/Princesses. The prompt was … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, #RBG, #Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gender equality, haiku, Jone Rush Macculloch, Justice, Michelle Kogan, MY POSTAL LADY, poem, poetry, Poets, Silver Birch Press, Tanita S. Davis
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Poetry Friday– SOUNDS OF SUSURRUS… and Giraffes
Giraffe in Summer, © 2009 Michelle Kogan, pen and ink. Happy Poetry Friday! and Happy Summer! At the beginning of June Laura Purdie Salas, who is a poet, author, and member of a group of Poets known as the … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, pen sketch, Poem, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, animals, Art, Children, earth, environment, family, Giraffes, Humanity, Karen Eastlund, Karen's Got a Blog, Laura Purdie Salas, life, Lucie Brock-Broido, Michelle Kogan, music, nature, Pen and Ink, poems, poetry, Poetry Sisters, Ponder, reflections, spirit, sun, Susurrus, Thanks, thoughts, Truth, Writing
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