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Category Archives: Quick Sketches
#Poetry Friday–Poetry and Art Workshop
Top left ekphrastic cherita © 2019 Jody Wilson, top right haiga © 2019 Celeste, bottom ekphrastic cherita © 2019 Brenda Happy Poetry Friday! Jone Rush MacCulloch is hosting this … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Painting, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged #Cherita, #PoetryFriday, Art, books, ekphrastic, friends, haiga, Haiku, Humanity, Jone Rush Macculloch, Libraries, Michelle Kogan, Morton Grove Public Library, nature, poems, poetry, Poetry and Art Workshop, Ponder, reflections, Students, summer, Watercolor
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#Poetry Friday–”I am the sound of…” & Summer Greeting Cards
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m sharing a poem that I created from a clunker line that Linda Mitchell made available at her blog A Word Edgewise, on her Poetry Friday Post last week. Many thanks Linda–I’ve had a busy week and … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Art, Birthday Cards, Buffy Silverman, Clunker Poems, earth, environment, Etsy Shop, Fireflies, fish, Flowers, friends, Linda Mitchell, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, Ponder, reflections, summer, Summer Cards, sun, thoughts
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Register for Michelle Kogan’s Summer Art Classes
Figure study, © 2019 Michelle Kogan, watercolor pencil. Register for one of my Summer Art Classes at the Evanston Art Center, they begin in one week, on June 10, 2019. I’m offering the following classes & workshops. For Registration … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Exhibits, Haiku, Michelle's Art Classes, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Picture Book, Picture Book Sketches, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged Art, books, Children's Picture Book Illustration, environment, Evanston Art Center, Figure Drawing and Painting, Michelle Kogan, Pen and Ink, Pen and Ink and Dr. Martin, Plein Air Painting, Plein Air Workshop, poems, poetry, Poetry and Art, reflections, Summer Art Classes, thoughts
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#NaPoWriMo Day 28, #poem and #sketch
FROM PENCIL TIPS Little words letter forms crawl out from cobwebs of thoughts, push aside barrage of daily din, collectively form, sometimes orderly, mostly scribbled furiously on lines with a desire to make that leap of faith–allow fingers to furiously … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged "From Pencil Tips", #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, Art, books, Little words, Michelle Kogan, Pencils, poem, Ponder, reflections, risks, thoughts, Truth, Waiting, Writing, writing process
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#NaPoWriMo Day 22: Happy #EarthDay!
earth day seagulls, keow they say, every days earth day! © Michelle Kogan For National Poetry Month, I’m writing poems inspired by art that I create or have created. Visit these spots on line to participate in National Poetry Month: … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged #Earth Day 2019, #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, Action, animals, Art, birds, Children, earth, environment, family, Haiku, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, Seagulls, spirit, thoughts, wings, Writing
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#NaPoWriMo day 17 & #internationalhaikuday
Inspired by my backyard bunny model… just bunny and me munching, scratching, munching winters dreams away… 2019 Michelle Kogan For National Poetry Month, I’m writing poems inspired by art that I create or have created. Visit these … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #internationalhaikuday, #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, animals, Art, Bunnies, earth, environment, friends, McihelleKogan, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, spring, thoughts, Waiting, Writing
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