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Category Archives: Pencil Drawing
#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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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–Soaking in Summer’s End…
Happy Poetry Friday! My daughter and I took a rendezvous to the Indiana Dunes National Park last Saturday. We lounged by the lake’s edge and then took a hike up the tallest Dune in the area Mount Tom, named … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Trips, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Art, earth, environment, family, Flowers, Humanity, Indiana Dunes National Park, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, photography, photos, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, sun, thoughts, Tolleston Beach, towering waves, travel, Watercolor, Writing
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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
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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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Poetry Friday Roundup is Here–Celebrating Tracy K. Smith at the Chicago Public Library
Happy Poetry Friday–The Roundup is here! On Saturday, April 27, 2019, I had the privilege and honor of hearing Tracy K. Smith, our 22nd US Poet Laureate at the Chicago Public Library’s Poetry Fest. A compelling poet, she is as … Continue reading
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Tagged "Beehive", "Life on Mars", "SEEING SUMMER’S GREENS", "Wade in the Water", #PoetryFriday, 22nd US Poet Laureate, animals, Art, books, Chicago Public Library's Poetry Fest, Children, earth, environment, family, Flowers, Jean Toomer, Michelle Kogan, nature, poems, poetry, Poetry Friday Roundup, Ponder, reflections, Renée LaTulippe, Tabatha Yeatts, The Slowdown, thoughts, Tracy K. Smith, Tracy K. Smith at Chicago Public Library's Poetry Fest 2019, Truth, Waiting, wings
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