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Category Archives: Picture Book
Poetry Friday–Emerging Spring
EMERGING CHANGE Happy Poetry Friday! I watch and wait as spring shares her signs, and doves persist… EMERGING CHANGE Paper whites push up through softened, squishy soil Over-winter leaves linger and await waiting soil-ready hands Statuesque garden beauty earthen-world or … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Art, Art Classes, artist, birds, Children's Picture Book Classes, doves, drawing, Evanston Art Center, Evanston Art Center Spring 2023 Art Classes, Heidi Mordhorst, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan Spring 2023 Art Classes, nature, Paper whites, Pen and Ink Classes, Plein air Classes, poem, poems, poetry, reflections, spring, spring flowers, spring seeds, Watercolor Classes, Writing
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Poetry Friday–New Year, New Book, New Card!
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m sharing a New poem celebrating the Year of the Rabbit, a New Anthology Book I’m in, and a New Valentine’s Card. LUNAR SOLAR Lunisolar year of the rabbit year of the cat celebrate the animals in … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book, Plein Air Art, Poem
Tagged "Heron's Home", Art, Asian New Year, Caldwell Pond, Children's Poetry Anthology, Chinese New Year, Emphathy, Etsy Shop, kindness, Lunar, Lunisolar, M.R. Street, Marcie Flinchum Atkins, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, nature, Painting, patience, poem, poems, poetry, reflections, s Cards, SO MANY ANIMALS! A Child's Book of Poetry, Solar, Turtle Cove Press, Valentine, Valentine's Day Cards, Watercolor, Writing, Year of he Cat, Year of the Rabbit
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Poetry Friday–Haiku
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m in with two haikus–one inspired by my walk and the other for my Dad for I’ve taken up a habit of writing poems for him on his Birthday… warm-air wind-shift,pumpkins politic-smile and leaves duo-tone dance… ©2022 … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Picture Book, poetry, Poetry Books, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, #pumpkins, Art, Birthdays, dad, daughters and fathers, fall, family, haiku, heart, leaves, Matt Forrest Esenwine, Memories, Michelle Kogan, nature, poem, poetry, reflections, Writing
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Poetry Friday– AT THE POND, Poetry Book by David Elliott, Illustrated by Amy Schimler-Safford
Happy Poetry Friday and Happy Earth Day! I’m tickled pink today, or perhaps green to be sharing a book review and comments from author and poet, David Elliott on his new poetry book, AT THE POND! David Elliott’s new verse … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Picture Book, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged Amy Schimler-Safford, artist, Author, Author Interview, David Elliott, earth day, Earth Day 2022, Kidlit Progressive Poem, Margaret Simon, Michelle Kogan, Picture Book, Plein Air, Poet, poetry, Poetry Friday, ponds, Progressive Poem 2022, Watercolor Painting, Writer
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Poetry Friday–NPM–Meadowlark
Happy Poetry Friday! Happy Poetry Month! There are S-o-o-o-o many poetry opportunities to partake in, I wish I could skip sleeping this month and fill up on more of the poetry out there. Here’s a couple of places to wet … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book, Poem, poetry, Poetry Books, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #National Poetry Month, #NPM 2022, #PoetryFriday, #Progressive Poem 2022, Art, birds, Eastern Meadow Lark, Imperfect II, Jama Rattigan, Jama's Alphabet Soup, Janice Scully, Margaret Simon, Mary Lee Hahn Rose Cappelli, Michelle Kogan, nature, poems, poetry, reflections, Tabatha Yeatts, This Photo Wants to Be, Ukraine, Writing
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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 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–Celebrate Literacy Day with DICTIONARY FOR A BETTER WORLD
Happy Poetry Friday! International Literacy Day is coming up on Tuesday, September 8th. What better way to begin celebrating it than with a wonderful book… I offer you DICTIONARY FOR A BETTER WORLD POEMS, QUOTES, AND ANECDOTES FROM A TO … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, Picture Book, Poem, Writing
Tagged #International Literacy Day 2020, #PoetryFriday, Action, Beyond Literacy Link, Carol Varsalona, change, Charles Waters, Covid19, DICTIONARY FOR A BETTER WORLD, Irene Latham, Mehrdokht Amini, Michelle Kogan, poetry, Poets, Voice, Writing
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