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#Poetry Friday–Inktober day 10 Patterns
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m in with another haiku to accompany my inktober drawing, WIP. Thinking about our encroaching cold weather and all that fluffy snow that fills the ground… The prompt word is pattern. nature’s patterns inspire reflections mirroring beauty … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Writing
Tagged #Inktober2019, animals, Art, beauty, Catherine Wallian Flynn, earth, environment, family, Haiku, Humanity, Jake Parker, Michelle Kogan, nature, patterns, poems, poetry, Ponder, Reading to the Core, reflections, reindeer, thoughts, travel, Truth, Writing
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#Inktober2019 & three stanza haiku
Prompt: build. My ink wash drawing is my vision of the fabric/curtains that may have draped the first tabernacle so very long ago. TABERNACLES OF LOVE build tabernacles of love, deep in your heart… growth will sprout where soil was … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged #Inktober2019, Action, animals, Art, dip pen, earth, environment, family, flowering, friends, Growth, Humanity, humanity hunger pangs, love, Michelle Kogan, Pen and Ink, poems, poetry, Ponder, possibilites, Tabernacle, Truth, washes, Writing
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#Inktober2019 Day 8 and haiku
redline full to gills, treading frail forgiveness… © 2019 Michelle Kogan #Inktober2019 day 8 prompt: frail Thinking about repentance and forgiveness on this Erev Yom Kippur… Here’s the inktober prompt schedule from the originator Jake Parker:
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing
Tagged #Inktober2019, Art, books, Chicago's redline, earth, environment, fish, frail forgiveness, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, Truth, Writing
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#Inktober2019 day 6 and Haiku
#Inktober day 6, prompt: husky milkweed’s husky june stature glows then withers, with autumn’s advance… © 2019 Michelle Kogan Here’s the inktober prompt schedule from the originator Jake Parker:
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #Inktober2019, Art, earth, environment, fall milkweed, family, friends, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, MIlkweed, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, sun, thoughts, wings, withered
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#Inktober2019 Day 5 and Haiku
pumpkin palooza– build patience, climb it up towards sky… © Michelle Kogan #Inktober2019 day 5 prompt: build Here’s the inktober prompt schedule from the originator Jake Parker:
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Halloween, Holidays, Home, Nature, pen sketch, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #Inktober2019, Action, Art, earth, family, friends, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, patience, Pen and Ink, poems, poetry, Ponder, pumpkin, reflections, Watercolor, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Inktober & Halloween Cards
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m in with a dual focus today… First I’m participating in #Inktober2019, and along with the ink drawing I’m writing short poems–mostly haikus. I’m also attempting this year to follow Jake Parker’s prompts, (the originator of Inktober … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Halloween, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, pen sketch, Pencil Drawing, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #Inktober2019, Art, earth, environment, friends, Halloween Cards, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan Fine Art Etsy Shop, poems, Poetry Friday, thoughts, Truth, Writing
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#Inktober2019 Day 2 and haiku
mindless rain washed away morning– crossing guard gleamed © 2019 Michelle Kogan prompt: mindless For more info on Inktober stop by Jake Parker’s website.
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #Inktober2019, #joy, Art, brush pen, Crossing Guard, environment, family, Gleaming, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, Mindless, poems, poetry, Ponder, Prompt, rain, reflections, Waiting, Writing
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