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#Poetry Friday–TREES BREATH & Online Art Exhibit
Happy Poetry Friday! I’ve been thinking about …space in poems… negative space, tree’s space, and people’s space… Above is the flyer for an online exhibit I’m in, Where Are We Now? Activism of the Everyday, An International Juried Virtual … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Exhibits, Home, Nature, pen sketch, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #PoetryFriday, An International Juried Virtual Exhibition of Art by Women, Art Exhibit, breath, change, Jama Rattigan, Jama's Alphabet Soup, Meet the Artist Live Virtual Event, Michelle Kogan, nature, Negative SPce, poems, poetry, trees, Vote
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Poetry Friday–Youth Climate Strike
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m joining the #ChicagoYouthClimateStrike, tomorrow, Friday 9-20-2019. Here’s my poster that has a poem I wrote for the march and rally. GOOD CLIMATE Trees and bees, Monarchs and seas Children’s needs Need: Good climate Good … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Poem, Writing
Tagged #ChicagoYouthClimateStrike, #PoetryFriday, Action, air, animals, bees, Charles Waters, Children, Climate Strike, earth, environment, family, friends, gardens, Good Climate, Humanity, Irene Latham, Linda Baie, March, Mehrdokht Amini, Michelle Kogan, Monarchs, nature, people, poems, poetry, reflections, Seeds, soil, Students, sun, thoughts, trees, Waiting, water, Writing
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Neighborhood Haiku
boots and roots journey, together intertwining through springtime changes… © 2016 Michelle Kogan
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, Writing
Tagged Art, chicago, Haiku, joruney, Michelle Kogan, nature, Neighborhood, poem, Roots, spring, springtime, trees, Writing
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#Inktober and haiku day 15, 2015
bend and blow mighty honey locust, for soon your leaves will all scatter… © Michelle Kogan 2015
Inktober Day 1: Quick morning sketch and haiku, #inktober
quickly moving clouds captured October’s first sky, hurry they’ll be gone… © Michelle Kogan 2015
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #inktober, Art, artist, autumn, clouds, drawing, early morning, fall, Michelle Kogan, micron pen, Pen and Ink, trees
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A haiku and quick painting for spring’s flowering trees…
frilly flowering trees capture my eye in may’s emerging blossom’s © Michelle Kogan
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged bees, Blossoms, chicago, Flowering Trees, haiku, May, Michelle Kogan, nature, Painting, quick sketch, spring, trees, Watercolor
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Sketch and haiku for day 11 #NaPoWriMo
first two then one flew gracing the grand ginkgo tree drenched in setting sun © Michelle Kogan
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Nature, Plein Air Art, Poem, Quick Sketches, Writing
Tagged birds, ginkgo, haiku, Michelle Kogan, NaPoWriMo, nature, poem, trees
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