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Poetry Friday–Lobelia and Fall…
Happy Poetry Friday! I had a week off in between my summer and fall classes that I teach, and tried to fit in a little bit of painting… My hearts still in summer but the leaves that are falling … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Michelle's Art Classes, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, autumn, bees, Etsy Shop, fall, Flowers, Janet Wong, Lobelia, Mary Oliver, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, Poetry for Children, purple, Sylvia Vardell, Traci Sorell
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Poetry Friday–For Lee Bennett Hopkins, #DearOneLBH
Happy Poetry Friday! This week for Poetry Friday many of us have written poems for our Dear Poet Pied Piper Lee Bennett Hopkins, who we just lost. We have borrowed lines from his poems and then created a new poem … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged "Jumping Off Library Shelves", "Story", "Storyteller", #DearOneLBH, #NPM, #PoetryFriday, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, books, Children's Poetry, imagination, Jone Rush Macculloch, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Michelle Kogan, Reading
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Register for Michelle Kogan’s Summer Art Classes
Figure study, © 2019 Michelle Kogan, watercolor pencil. Register for one of my Summer Art Classes at the Evanston Art Center, they begin in one week, on June 10, 2019. I’m offering the following classes & workshops. For Registration … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Exhibits, Haiku, Michelle's Art Classes, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book, Picture Book Sketches, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged Art, books, Children's Picture Book Illustration, environment, Evanston Art Center, Figure Drawing and Painting, Michelle Kogan, Pen and Ink, Pen and Ink and Dr. Martin, Plein Air Painting, Plein Air Workshop, poems, poetry, Poetry and Art, reflections, Summer Art Classes, thoughts
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#NaPoWriMo day 8 #haiku, #watercolor
three star narcissus laugh at ignorance and speak truth without words… © 2019 Michelle Kogan
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, animals, bee, earth, environment, friends, Haiku, Humanity, ignorance, Michelle Kogan, Narcissus, Ponder, reflections, stars, Truth, Writing
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Day 2 #NPM #NaPoWriMo–Junco’s & Haiku
junco waits… gray day fades with refreshing rainwater © 2019 Michelle Kogan For National Poetry Month, I’m writing poems inspired by art that I create or have created. Visit these spots on line to participate in National Poetry Month: Academy of … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Nature photos, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, Art, birds, environment, Haiku, Junco, Michelle Kogan, poems, poetry, Ponder, rainwater, reflections, wings
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#PoetryFriday–#SPRING!
Happy Poetry Friday I’m Celebrating Spring and spreading around thoughts to encourage all our plants to come up out of the ground! SPRINT TO SPRING Dandelion dancing to rags of Scott Joplin’s “Gladiola’s” in my Kick-up Cartwheel sprint to SPRING! … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, animals, bird songs, birds, Children, Dandelions, earth, environment, family, Flowers, friends, Goofing Off Day, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, poems, poetry, Ponder, Reading, Rebecca Herzog, Sloth Reads, spring, Tanka, thoughts, video, wings, Women, Writing
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#PoetryFriday–Strike for Global Climate Change!
Happy Poetry Friday! Today, March 15, 2019, Heidi Mordhorst is hosting the Poetry Friday Round Up, at her blog my juicy little universe. Heidi asked us to create poems and posts promoting the Climate Strike that is happening around the world in … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged ##fridays4futrue, #climatestrike, #GreenNewDeal, #PoetryFriday, Action, animals, Art, Carbon Capturing, Children, Denise Levertov, earth, environment, family, friends, Global Climate Change, Greta Thunberg, Heidi Mordhorst, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, nature, people, poems, poetry, reflections, Strike, sun, thoughts, Women, Writing
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#PoetryFriday: Sparrows, Spring, & Music
we’re windowpane sparrows pining for spring it’s coming, be patient… pop by each afternoon, come out, take a peak, commune with nature–a natural treat… © 2019 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! Linda Baie at her blog TeacherDance is our hostess … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Picture Book Sketches, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged "White Bird", #PoetryFriday, Art, Christie Wyman, doves, environment, Humanity, Linda Baie, Michelle Kogan, music, patience, poems, poetry, reflections, sparrows, spring, Teacher Dance, thoughts, Watercolor, Wondering and Wondering, Writing
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#PoetryFriday–iPad haikus & art
Happy Poetry Friday! I’ve been playing this week on my newly acquired iPad. I won it recently when I resubscribed to my local public radio station. I’m planning on using it mostly to connect up with my computer to do … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, animals, Art, bees, Bulbs, environment, Haiku, imagination, iPad Poetry, iPad sketches, Michelle Kogan, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, sailing, spring, squirrels, thoughts, travel, Waiting, water, Writing
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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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