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Category Archives: Pencil Drawing
Poetry Friday–#NPM 2021: Spring
Happy Poetry Friday and National Poetry Month! Spring plants are emerging, and I’m waiting on my backyard milkweed to push-on-through the soil… And then monarchs come. This week I’m celebrating with Spring poems that I’ve been writing for NPM. I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #National Poetry Month 2021, #PoetryFriday, #Tabatha Yeatts, "Spring's Launch", artist, birds, crocus, daffodil, En Plen Air, Junco, Michelle Kogan, MIlkweed, Monarchs, nature, Oil Painting, Painting, Pollinate, Robin, Soul Blossom Living, Susan Bruck, Tabatha Yeatts: The Opposite of Indifference, This Photo Wants To Be A Poem, Writer
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National Poetry Month 2021–haiku and sparrow
sparrow’s sweet chee cheewon’t din morning’s train, but perseveres with friends © 2021 Michelle Kogan
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #artist, #Birds, #kidlit artist, #Nature, #NPM2021, #pencil sketch, #poem, #Poetry, #Sparrows, #Writer, Michelle Kogan
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Poetry Friday–Spring & Actions for Hate Crimes
Happy Poetry Friday and Welcome SPRING! Trying to welcome Spring, though Spring has decided to temporarily take leave, I hear she may return next week. Anyway, here’s a poem for Spring Crocus’ and a WIP watercolor with bits of white … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, "Spring's Crocus", Actions, American Problem, artist, crocus, Golden Shovel Poem, Hate Crimes, Linda Baie, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, poem, poetry, reflections, spring, Teacher Dance, Watercolor
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Poetry Friday-“Creative Brain”
Happy Poetry Friday! I’ve been participating in Laura Shovan’s 9th Annual February Poetry Project, where we write a poem a day during February. This year our poem prompt focus is the body. My Poem-Drawing here is from a prompt this … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book, Poem, poetry, Poetry Books, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, "Creative Brain", Art, Getty Museum, ideas, Laura Shovan, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, pencil sketch, Persistant, Poem-Drawing, poems, Poet-Artists, poetry, Polymath, Rebecca Brock, Ruth Bowen Hersey, William Blake
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Poetry Friday–New Figure Drawing Class, Poem, & Art
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m interrupting the ongoing political airways… To bring you… My brand new Online Figure Drawing–Painting & Composition Class, beginning next week on Thursday, January 21, 2021, at Harper College in their Community Education Department–and am looking to … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Michelle's Art Classes, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Art Classes online 2021, artist, drawing, Figure Drawing and Painting, Figure Drawing–Painting ¶Composition Class, Harper College Community Education, Margaret Simon, Michelle Kogan, Monarchs, poems, poetry, Poetry and the Environment, Rondelle
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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-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: Hindsight Prompt & Fall Online Art Classes
Happy Poetry Friday! Heidi Mordhorst, poet, teacher, and activist extraordinaire is hosting this weeks Poetry Friday roundup at her blog my juicy little universe, thanks for hosting Heidi! Be sure to stop by for lots more poetry… This week we … Continue reading
Posted in Home, Michelle's Art Classes, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, #poetrypals, Children's Illustration & Writing, Covid19, education first, Evanston Art Center, Fall 2020 Online Art Classes, Figure Drawing and Painting, health care for all, Heidi Mordhorst, Hindsight, Laura Purdie Salas, Michelle Kogan, My Juicy little universe, Pen and ink and Dr. Marin Watercolor, Poetry Sisters, save out planet, stimulus checks covid19, Tanita S. Davis, Watercolor, wearing face masks
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