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#Poetry Friday–#NaPoWriMo & Earth Day
Purple Onion Plant and Peonies, WIP, © 2019 Michelle Kogan,watercolor and watercolor pencil. Happy Poetry Friday! I like to ponder on about our earth everyday, so I’m beginning my celebration of Earth Day today… Happy Earth Day and National … Continue reading
Posted in Home, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, Art, earth, earth day, environment, Michelle Kogan, Painting, Peonies, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, sun, thoughts, Triolet poem, Watercolor, WIP, Writing
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#NaPoWriMo Day 13
GROW MILKWEED SEEDS Looking looking searching high and low, Are you my milkweed seeds starting to grow… 2019 Michelle Kogan For National Poetry Month, I’m writing poems inspired by art that I create or have created. Visit these spots on … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Picture Book Sketches, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged #NaPoWriMo2019, #NPM, Action, Art, books, earth, environment, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, MIlkweed, Milkweed seeds, nature, poems, poetry, Ponder, reflections, Seeds, spring, sun, thoughts, Waiting, Writing
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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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#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–Strike for Global Climate Change!
Happy Poetry Friday! Today, March 15, 2019, Heidi Mordhorst is hosting the Poetry Friday Round Up, at her blog my juicy little universe. Heidi asked us to create poems and posts promoting the Climate Strike that is happening around the world in … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged ##fridays4futrue, #climatestrike, #GreenNewDeal, #PoetryFriday, Action, animals, Art, Carbon Capturing, Children, Denise Levertov, earth, environment, family, friends, Global Climate Change, Greta Thunberg, Heidi Mordhorst, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, nature, people, poems, poetry, reflections, Strike, sun, thoughts, Women, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Origin Poem WIP
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m sharing my first Origin poem. It came out of a poetry workshop I was at a few weeks ago at the Poetry Foundation, here in Chicago. The workshop was on research and how poets incorporate … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Holidays, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing
Tagged "Origin Poem Story Beginnings", Art, books, earth, family, friends, Grandfather, Hanukkah, Humanity, Liz Steinglass, Michelle Kogan, poems, poetry, Poetry Foundation, reflections, Russia, sun, thoughts, travel, Ukraine, Writing
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#PoetryFriday–Vote & #Inktober
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m here with a mix of poetry and art to raise consciousness for the US Midterm Elections. My illustration accompanies my poem which was inspired by Calef Brown’s prompt on Michelle Heidenrich Barnes’ blog site Today’s Little … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature photos, Painting, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Theatre & Music, Writing
Tagged #inktober, #PoetryFriday, Action, animals, Art, books, Chicago Women's March 2018, earth, environment, family, Humanity, March to the Polls, Michelle Kogan, Midterm elections, poems, poetry, reflections, sun, thoughts, video, Vote, wings, Writing
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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–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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