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Category Archives: pen sketch
Poetry Friday–Democracy & Beginnings…
beginnings can be difficult–but we can chooseto begin again…© 2021 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday! My thoughts and poems are on the events of our US Certification Day, and the aftermath that unfolded… I’m still processing, but I’m also in … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Michelle's Art Classes, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #Poetry Friday, artist, begin again, beginnings, Democracy, Golden Shovel Poem, haiku, Hope, Michael Beschloss, Michelle Kogan, PBS Newshour, poetry, Sylvia Vardell, teaching, US Certification Day 2021, WIP, Writing
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Poetry Friday Roundup is Here, dusted in Stardust!
Happy Poetry Friday! The Poetry Friday Roundup is Here! Please add your link below In this dark time of year when light is scarce, I like looking up to the sky for hope and inspiration. Before bed each night, I … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Picture Book, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #kidlitart, #kidlitillustration, #PoetryFriday, artist, Bookmarks, Children's art, Dreams, Free, Freedom, Holidays, Hope, Kidlitosphere, Michelle Kogan, MichelleKoganFineArt.etsy.com, Poet, poetry, Poetry Friday Roundup, Space, Space Friends, Star gazing, stardust, stars
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Poetry Friday–Hanukkah
HANUKKAH YOU’RE HERE… Hanukkah, your haloing glow creeps up on us each year… Sometimes early, sometimes late sometimes just right. You follow moon’s lunar calendar– But, most of us work-crazed creaturesfollow work-crazed Gregorian calendars. Here you are again early in … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #kidlitart, "The Feast of Lights", archival prints, Buffy Silverman, Children, Children's Illustration, Dreidels, Emma LAzarus, Etsy Shop, Freedom, Hanukkah, Hanukkah Boy Card, Hanukkah You're Here", Latke's, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, Oil Lamp Menorah, Painting, Poetry Friday, Rebekah, Rebekah Lowin, Watercolor
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Poetry Friday–”MEMORY OF NOVEMBER’S PAST,” prompt…
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m sharing a poem from a poem prompt by the Poetry Princesses, Poetry Sisters, Laura Purdie Salas, Tanita S. Davis, and all. This month we were asked to write a poem about hindsight, and about a memory … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, "MEMORY OF NOVEMBER'S PAST", Academy of American Poets, artist, Carol's Corner, family, Gather in Poems, Hope, Humanity, Joy Harjo, Michelle Kogan, Painting, Pantoum, Poem Prompt, Remember
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#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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