Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Colors - Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #2:

 

Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #2


This is the second in a series of portfolio showreels my husband, Jack Kost, made to promote my abstract acrylic painting.

Featured works are abstract acrylics using pour techniques.

Future work will include mixed acrylic ink abstracts.

Painting images are available from the Allegorical_Littera online Zazzle store at:

https://www.zazzle.com/


To view the image, type Abstract Color Study and the number into the Zazzle search field.

Example: Abstract Color Study 503

Images are available as cards, and can be transferred to posters, t-shirts, notebooks, magnets, mugs, and more.

A percentage of sales from Zazzle is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research.

Showreel design and development credit:

Jack Kost, Allegorical Littera

Music credit:

Ambiance#5 by Lilo Sound.


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Colors - Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #1:


Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #1


This is the first in a series of portfolio showreels my husband, Jack Kost, made to promote my abstract acrylic painting.

Featured works are abstract acrylics using pour techniques.

Future work will include mixed acrylic ink abstracts.

Painting images are available from the Allegorical_Littera online Zazzle store at:

https://www.zazzle.com/


To view the image, type Abstract Color Study and the number into the Zazzle search field.

Example: Abstract Color Study 503

Images are available as cards, and can be transferred to posters, t-shirts, notebooks, magnets, mugs, and more.

A percentage of sales from Zazzle is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research.
 
Themes:

art, artwork, poster, painting, acrylic, abstract, fluid painting, Kathleen Jane Kost, showreel, video, MP4
 
Showreel design and development credit:

Jack Kost, Allegorical Littera
 
Music credit:

Ambiance#5
by Lilo Sound.

Ernest Hemingway, on writing:



When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible.

There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

– Ernest Hemingway.


Recommended reading - Film Noir: A Critical Introduction

 

Film Noir: A Critical Introduction

by Ian Brookes.
 
Bloomsbury Film Genres Series.
Published by Bloomsbury Academic.

Published 2017.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1780933134
ISBN-13: 978-1780933139
 
Description:
 
What is film noir? With its archetypal femme fatale and private eye, its darkly-lit scenes and even darker narratives, the answer can seem obvious enough. But as Ian Brookes shows in this new study, the answer is a lot more complex than that. This book is designed to tackle those complexities in a critical introduction that takes into account the problems of straightforward definition and classification. Students will benefit from an accessible introductory text that is not just an account of what film noir is, but also an interrogation of the ways in which the term came to be applied to a disparate group of American films of the 1940s and 1950s.

Born on this day – Will Rogers:


Will Rogers


Vaudevillian

Actor

November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935

Credits:

Stand Up and Cheer! (1934); In Old Kentucky (1935); Steamboat Round the Bend (1935); Doubting Thomas (1935); Life Begins at 40 (1935); The County Chairman (1935); Judge Priest (1934); Handy Andy (1934); David Harum (1934); Mr. Skitch (1933); Doctor Bull (1933); State Fair (1933); Too Busy to Work (1932); Down to Earth (1932); Business and Pleasure (1932); Ambassador Bill (1931); Young as You Feel (1931); A Connecticut Yankee (1931); Lightnin' (1930); So This Is London (1930); They Had to See Paris (1929); Happy Days (1929); A Texas Steer (1927); Tiptoes (1927); Roaming the Emerald Isle with Will Rogers (1927); With Will Rogers in Dublin (1927); Gee Whiz, Genevieve (1924); A Truthful Liar (1924); Our Congressman (1924); Jubilo, Jr. (1924); Don't Park There (1924); Going to Congress (1924); High Brow Stuff (1924); The Cake Eater (1924); The Cowboy Sheik (1924); Two Wagons: Both Covered (1924); Uncensored Movies (1923); Hustlin' Hank (1923); Jus' Passin' Through (1923); Hollywood (1923); Fruits of Faith (1922); The Headless Horseman (1922); The Ropin' Fool (1922); One Glorious Day (1922); A Poor Relation (1921); Doubling for Romeo (1921); An Unwilling Hero (1921); Boys Will Be Boys (1921); Guile of Women (1920); Honest Hutch (1920); Cupid the Cowpuncher (1920); Jes' Call Me Jim (1920); The Strange Boarder (1920); Water, Water, Everywhere (1920); Jubilo (1919); Almost a Husband (1919); Laughing Bill Hyde (1918); Roaring Camp (1916).

Born on this day – Gaby Deslys:

Gaby Deslys

Actress

Singer

November 4, 1881 – February 11, 1920

Credits:

Albums:

La Parisienne (1910); Philomene (1910); Tout en Rose (1910).

Stage:

Stop! Look! Listen! (December 25, 1915 - March 25, 1916); The Revue of Revues (September 27, 1911 - November 11, 1911); The Honeymoon Express (February 6, 1913 - June 14, 1913); The Belle of Bond Street (March 30, 1914 - May 9, 1914); Vera Violetta (November 20, 1911 - February 24, 1912).

Movies and television:

Animated Weekly, No. 55 (1913); Her Triumph (1915); Infatuation (1918); La nuit est à elles, Paris 1919-1939 (2018); La remplaçante (1916); Le Dieu du hasard (1920); Rosy Rapture (1915).

Born on this day – Stanley Cortez:


Stanley Cortez


Cinematographer

November 4, 1908 – December 23, 1997

Credits:

A Dangerous Game (1941); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935); Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952); Alias the Deacon (1940); American Masters (1993 / 2008); Another Man, Another Chance (1977); Apache (1954); Armored Car (1937); Back Street (1961); Badlands of Dakota (1941); Black Tuesday (1954); Blue (1968); Bombay Clipper (1941); Boy Meets Joy (1939); Broadway (1929); Chinatown (1974); Continental (1989); Damien: Omen II (1978); Danger on the Air (1938); Devotion (1931); Dinosaurus! (1960); Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971); Doomsday Machine (1976); Dragon's Gold (1954); Eagle Squadron (1942); Exposed (1938); Family Affair (1966); Flesh and Fantasy (1943); For Love or Money (1939); Fort Defiance (1951); Four Days Wonder (1936); Furia roja (1951); Hawaiian Nights (1939); Hollywood Screen Test (1937); I Cover the War! (1937); It's a Date (1940); Lady with a Past (1932); Laugh It Off (1939); Let There Be Light (1980); Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! (1940); Man from Del Rio (1956); Margie (1940); Medic (1954); Meet the Wildcat (1940); Models Inc. (1952); Moonlight in Hawaii (1941); Moving Pictures (1995); My Lips Betray (1933); Nightmare in the Sun (1965); Panama Flo (1932); Personal Secretary (1938); Riders to the Stars (1954); Risky Business (1939); San Antonio Rose (1941); Scream, Evelyn, Scream! (1970); Sealed Lips (1942); Secret Beyond the Door... (1947); Shanghai Madness (1933); Shark River (1953); Shock Corridor (1963); Since You Went Away (1944); Smart Woman (1948); Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947); South Pacific (1958); Stronghold (1951); Talking Film (1978); Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970); The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998); The Admiral Was a Lady (1950); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Angry Red Planet (1959); The Basketball Fix (1951); The Bat Whispers (1930); The Black Cat (1941); The Black Doll (1938); The Bridge at Remagen (1969); The Candidate (1964); The Diamond Queen (1953); The Forgotten Woman (1939); The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966); The Green Archer (1925); The Lady in the Morgue (1938); The Last Express (1938); The Leather Pushers (1940); The Madmen of Mandoras (1963); The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949); The Moviemakers (1985); The Naked Kiss (1964); The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966); The Neanderthal Man (1953); The Night of the Hunter (1955); The Powers Girl (1943); The Three Faces of Eve (1957); The Underworld Story (1950); The Wildcatter (1937); They Asked for It (1939); They Saved Hitler's Brain (1968); Thunder in the Sun (1959); Top Secret Affair (1957); Vice Raid (1959); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1960); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); When Time Ran Out... (1980); Yesterday and Today (1953); Young Dillinger (1965); Zane Grey Theatre (1960).