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#PoetryFriday–#NPM Day 3 & 4 2019
Happy Poetry Friday and National Poetry Month! The last few weeks they’ve had ranunculus in the grocery store, and I’ve a soft spot for them, which is justified because I can always bring them to my Watercolor classes for my … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Painting, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, #PoetryFriday, animals, Art, cats, Flowers, Kitty, Michelle Kogan, poems, poetry, Ponder, ranunculus, thoughts, Waiting, Writing
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#PoetryFriday–Lion or Lamb
Happy Poetry Friday I’m trying to stay positive about the Chicago weather. It was glorious yesterday, and today, we’re back to almost winter like weather. It was pretty nippy while I painted outside. Which brings me to my poem for … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, animals, April, Art, birds, earth, environment, Flowers, Garter snakes, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, nature, poems, reflections, spring, spring flowers, sun, thoughts, Waiting, wings, Writing
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#PoetryFriday–#SPRING!
Happy Poetry Friday I’m Celebrating Spring and spreading around thoughts to encourage all our plants to come up out of the ground! SPRINT TO SPRING Dandelion dancing to rags of Scott Joplin’s “Gladiola’s” in my Kick-up Cartwheel sprint to SPRING! … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, animals, bird songs, birds, Children, Dandelions, earth, environment, family, Flowers, friends, Goofing Off Day, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, poems, poetry, Ponder, Reading, Rebecca Herzog, Sloth Reads, spring, Tanka, thoughts, video, wings, Women, Writing
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#PoetryFriday–Healing Valentine’s
Happy Poetry Friday I’ve been writing Valentine haikus this week thinking about all the children and other individuals that have been lost this last year from gun violence. I heard a radio interview from one of the survivors … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, Action, animals, Art, books, Children, environment, family, Flowers, Gun violence, Healing Valentine's, Humanity, Jone MacCulloch, Michelle Kogan, nature, poems, poetry, reflections, Remembering lives lost, thoughts, valentines day, Women, Writing
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#Inktober Day 2 & #Haiku
zoning in on zinnias, their zazzle, texture, and color. © 2018 Michelle Kogan Thinking about focusing on letters of the alphabet to lead me through inktober…though, not in any particular order.
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, pen sketch, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #inktober, Art, fall, Flowers, Haiku, Michelle Kogan, Pen and Ink, poem, poetry, reflections, thoughts, Writing, Zinnias
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Poetry Friday-Poems and a Sale
Morning Glories on porch, © 2018 Michelle Kogan, Greeting Card, watercolor and watercolor pencil Happy Poetry Friday and Happy Summers End! Today I’m sharing a mix of this and that … to accompany this transitional time between end of summer … Continue reading
Posted in ACEO, Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Halloween, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged Art, Bookmarks, earth, Etsy Sale, Flowers, friends, Greeting Cards, Humanity, Journals, Labor Day Sale, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, nature, people, poems, poetry, Poetry Friday, prints, reflections, sketchbooks, sun, thoughts, wings, Women, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Blooms, haiku, and sketch
cottage garden blooms beauty waves her petals, care for her fragile gifts. © 2018 Michelle Kogan My hanging petals reminded me of a summer poem by the Bard a.k.a. William Shakespeare, and here it is set to music. Ariel’s … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged Action, Ariel's Song, Art, bauty, blooms, books, care, Cottage garden blooms, environment, Flowers, fragile nature, Haiku, Humanity, Michelle Kogan #Poetry Friday, nature, poems, poetry, Shakespeare, thoughts, Writing
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