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Category Archives: Trips
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–12 Days of Christmas
Happy Poetry Friday Last week I finished up Julie Hedlund’s 12 days of Christmas Challenge–it started on December 26th and ran through January 6, 2019. It’s a Facebook group that she’s been offering writer’s for the last four years, to … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Nature photos, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Trips, Writing
Tagged #haikuforhope, #MoPoetry2019, #PoetryFriday, 12 Days of Christmas, Art, chicago, Garfield Park Conservatory, Haibun, Haiku, Julie Hedlund, Kat Apel, Mary Lee Hahn, Mchelle Kogan, Painting, pen, poems writing, reflections, sketches, Watercolor
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Poetry Friday–Bounty, Dreams, & Painting …
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m sharing some art and poems that were inspired by and begun while in Door County, WI. My first poem is a golden shovel that I built from Langston Hughes’ poem Dreams. DREAMS What shall we hold … … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Trips, Writing
Tagged animals, Art, Bounty Dreams Painting, Door County, environment, family, golden shovel, Humanity, lake Michigan, Langston Hughes, Michelle Kogan, nature, photography, photos, poems, poetry, Poetry Friday, reflections, sailboats, seaguls, spirit, sun, thoughts, travel, water, Writing
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#Inktober day 10 Taylor Street Chicago and Haiku
tailored taylor street captured my attention while sun sang all fall day… Art and Haiku © Michelle Kogan 2015
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Plein Air Art, Poem, Trips, Writing
Tagged #inktober, artist, chicago, fall, haiku, Michelle Kogan, Pen and Ink, pen sketch, sun, Tailored, Taylor Street, Taylor Street Chicago, writing
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Haiku & watercolor sketch from driving through Pennsylvania
PA’s mountains move senses, filling awe within and inspiration Michelle Kogan 2015
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Trips, Writing
Tagged haiku, Michelle Kogan, Painting, road trip, Watercolor
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Labor Day Weekend 2012: Indiana Miniature Trains, Michigan San dunes and Chicago Sunflowers
This Labor Day weekend we hit the open road and took a ride on a miniature train at the Heston Steam Museum, in La Porte, IN… I squeezed in a quick watercolor sketch while on the beach, in Warren Dunes … Continue reading
