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Category Archives: Plein Air Art
Poetry Friday–Mother’s Day
Happy Poetry Friday and Happy Mother’s Day! Still busy and filled-to-the-gills, so popping in with a 4 x 4 poem and brief Mother’s Day post for all feathered and unfeathered Mom’s all around… FEATHERED MAMA’S Flutter–fly–by Omnipresent On ground and … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #Mother's Day, #Poetry Friday, "Feathered Mama's", Art, Birdbaths, birds, butterflies, Cabbage White butterfly, Flowers, Happy Mother's Day, Helping mom, May 2023, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, Pen and Ink, poem, poems, poetry, robins, Robyn Hood Black, spring, Tulips, Watercolor
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Poetry Friday–Welcome May & New Card
Happy Poetry Friday & Happy May! MAY GRATITUDE & MARVELS Gazing up through my window pillowous clouds merge into shape-shifting form… Patches of light washed cerulean blue sky excite me with goose-bumpy wonder… And spring’s young greengold leaves and ochreish … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #Poetry Friday, "May-Flower", "Through my window", Art, Asclepias and Bees in May, Emily Dickinson, Etsy Shop, Gratitude, Linda Baie, Marvels, May, Maypole Dance, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, Milkweed seedlings, Painting, poem, poems, poetry, reflections, Teacher Dance, Watercolor, Writing
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Poetry Friday–#PocketPoem & Pablo Neruda Challenge
Happy Poetry Friday & Happy National Poetry Month! I’m sharing my poem from Thursday’s Poem in Your Pocket Day, and my DIY process for it. I folded my poem into a kinda flower to keep it safe in my pocket, … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #NPM, #pocketpoem, #Poetry Friday, #poetrypals, Art, earth, environment, Michelle Kogan, National Poetry Month 2023, OPEN SEA, Pablo Neruda, Painting, poem, Poem in your pocket Day, poems, poetry, reflections, Ruth Bowen Hersey, There's no such thing as a God-forsaken town, Watercolor, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Passover & Poet Adah Isaacs Menken
Happy Poetry Friday! Happy National Poetry Month! Happy Passover! I gave myself a tall order in this short poem… to spin out the Passover story in a short etheree. PASSOVER PRAYER-STORY Green grows out of earth, thoughts ponder rebirth, renewal. Though … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #AuthorsTakeAction2023, #ClimatePoemProject, #National Poetry Month 2023, #Passover 2023, Adah Isaacs Menken, artist, Etheree, Gratitude, Margaret Simon, Michelle Kogan, Painting, Passover Story, Pen and Ink, Poet, poetry, Poetry Friday, Refflection, Reflections on the teche, sketchbooks
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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–Ekphrastic Challenge
Happy Poetry Friday! Thanks again Poetry Sisters, Laura, Tanita, Mary Lee, Liz, Kelly, Tricia, Sara, and Andi for your prompt this month to write an ekphrastic poem. Find more of these poems tagged with #PoetryPals. My poem also comes from a prompt by Carol Varsalona who provided us … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #poetrypals, Art, Dazzling light, Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Khruangbin Ekphrastic poem, Michelle Kogan, music, nature, Painting, Pantoum, poem, poems, poetry, Poetry Friday, Poetry Sisters, reflections, 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—Folktale Week Poem
Fall Leaves card, © 2015, Michelle Kogan, pen and ink and watercolor, available in my online Etsy Shop: Michelle Kogan Fine Art Happy Poetry Friday! I decided to pick up the prompt that was created by Linda Mitchell, on her … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #folktaleweek2022, #PoetryFriday, "The Magic Tree", A Word Edgewise, Art, artist, Haibun, Haiku, Inklings, Jama Rattigan, Jama's Alphabet Soup, Linda Mitchell, Michelle Kogan, Mother Earth, Nat King Cole, nature, Painting, Pen and Ink, poem, poetry, reflections, Sustain Mother Earth, trees, Watercolor, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Quick Fall Post…
Happy Poetry Friday & Happy Fall Stopping in quickly to wish all a Happy Fall! It’s been a busy week and another ahead of me– Something new is brewing… I’ll fill you in on the why’s perhaps next week…But for … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Poetry Books, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks
Tagged #PoetryFriday, "Tap Dancing on the Roof", Art, Jan Godown Annino, Korean Poem Form, Linda Sue Park, Michelle Kogan, nature, poems, poetry, reflections, Rose Cappelli, Sijo Poem, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Hummingbird
Happy Poetry Friday! I caught a few moments of a lovely female ruby-throated hummingbird while painting outside last week… Ruby-throated hummingbird hovers by my sidewith windmill-wingsand inquisitive eyes, eyes that gaze into minewithout a wink, in steady linetill body side-juts … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #Poetry Friday, Art, care, Emily Dickinson, gardens, Michelle Kogan, nature, Observe, Plein Air, poems, Poet, poetry, reflections, Ruby-throated hummingbird, September, Slow down, Writing
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