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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: Blueness
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m in with a short post, sharing some Blue Chicago art and poetry both available in my Etsy Shop, and for any local Chicago friends at the Evanston Art Center’s Winter EXPO 2020 Show–open through 12-20-20. Early … Continue reading
Poetry Friday–Snow, Birds, Valentine’s…
Happy Poetry Friday! Brrr, our temps are plummeting here in Chicago, but along with that we’ve received a lovely sprinkling of snow… windy, snowy, “brave irene” kinda day, with pine wiggling magic © 2020 Michelle Kogan I’m going to … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, Writing
Tagged Action, animals, Art, Audubon Society, Baird's Sandpiper, birds, chicago, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, earth, environment, family, Great Backyard Bird Count, Humanity, Linda Baie, Love Birds, Michelle Kogan, MichelleKoganFineArt.etsy.com, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, snow, spirit, sun, thoughts, threatened species, Truth, valentines day
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#Poetry Friday–#NaPoWriMo & New Etsy Card & Bookmark
Greeting Card, Girl Flower Faces, 5 x 7 inches. Happy Poetry Friday! I’m spreading some color for Spring with poetry and art. The images here are from a new painting called Girl Flower Faces, and are available in my Etsy Shop … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Painting, Poem, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, Art, Bookmarks, dried fowers, earth, Girls, Greeting Cards, Humanity, Irene Latham, Michelle Kogan, MichelleKoganFineArt.etsy.com, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, sun, Waiting, Women, Writing
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#haikuforhealing inspired by a New Card
A customer inquired about making an elephant holiday card. I went to my endangered friend the Asian Elephant for inspiration. The card inspired my haiku. http://www.MichelleKoganFineArt.etsy.com thanks for december’s surprise, drawing sensitive elephants for all! © 2016 Michelle Kogan
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Writing
Tagged animals, Art, Asian Elephants, Elephants, endangered species, Haiku, Holiday Cards, Michelle Kogan, MichelleKoganFineArt.etsy.com, New Cards, peace, poems, poetry, winter
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itch twitch tickle poem and new card, & Spring Sale at Michelle Kogan Fine Art
Welcome Spring! Here’s a New Card with my poem to welcome Spring available in my Etsy Shop! This image itch twitch tickle will also be available as an archival print. I’m also having a Spring Sale in my Shop through Earth Day … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Nature, Painting, Poem, Writing
Tagged Butterfly, Children, drawing, Etsy, Etsy Shop, itch twitch tickle, ladybug, Michelle Kogan, MichelleKoganFineArt.etsy.com, nature, Painting, poem, Poem and New Card, poetry, rabbit, Sneezes, Spring Sale, Watercolor, writing
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Fun Environmental Valentine: Mermaid & Sturgeon, Michelle Kogan
Ahoy Maities… Here’s a valentine for someone special who is sweet on the environment! It’s from my watercolor painting, Mermaid and Sturgeon. This mermaid is hitching a ride with her true love, a sturgeon and is offering him a cockle … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Nature, Painting
Tagged Ahoy Maities, Art, Environmental, Environmental Valentine, greeting card, Mermaid, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan fine art, MichelleKoganFineArt.etsy.com, Painting, Sturgeon, Valentine, Valentine Card, valentines day, Watercolor Card, Watercolor Painting
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Ready for a Topical, Watercolor, Escape from Chicago in the Winter…
To all my winter bound friends, if you’re ready for a tropical escape mosey on over to the Evanston Art Center and pick up one of my Postcard booklets, it has this image, Tropical Water Lilies and Dragonfly, (painted at the … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Exhibits, Holidays, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art
Tagged Art, Chicago Botanic Garden, dragonfly, Escape, Evanston Art Center, Evanston Art Center Winter Art Expo 2013, Flowers, Michelle Kogan, MichelleKoganFineArt.etsy.com, nature, Plein Air, tropical, Tropical Escape, water lilies, Watercolor
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Poem: Early Morning Light, & Painting, Michelle Kogan
Early Morning Light It was a nut crackery morning… the trees wore Royal red skirts, as they swayed their trunks and waved their branches, they parted for me and the cobalt sparkling sky shone through… The tambourines and cymbals crescendoed … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Exhibits, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged Art, botanical, Cobalt Blue, Early Morning Light, Evanston Art Center Winter Art Expo 2013, ladybug, Michelle Kogan, MichelleKoganFineArt.etsy.com, nature, Painting, Plein Air, Plein Air Painting, poem, poetry, winter
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Winter Haiku and Holiday Artwork: Michelle Kogan
fluttering green leaves waving adieu to autumn welcoming winter I invite you to view this painting online in my Etsy shop where it is available as a print or card: http://www.MichelleKoganFineArt.etsy.com And for my Chicago area friends if you are looking … Continue reading