Thursday, April 9, 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.

Patricia A. McKillip, on imagination:

 

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps.
It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.
- Patricia A. McKillip.

Recommended reading - The Name is Archer

The Name Is Archer

by Ross MacDonald.

Part of the Lew Archer mystery series.

Paperback
Published by Grand Central Pub.
First published 1955.

ISBN 13: 9780446361569
ISBN10: 0446361569
ASIN: 0446361569
 
Description:
Anthology containing the following stories: Find the woman; Gone girl; The bearded lady; The suicide; Guilt-edged blonde; The sinister habit; Wild goose chase; Midnight blue; Sleeping dog.


Born on this day – Charles Baudelaire:

 

Charles Baudelaire


Writer

April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867
Credits:

Written work:

Arts in Paris 1845–1862 (1965); Baudelaire as a Literary Critic (1964); Belgium Stripped Bare (2019); Critique d'art; Critique musicale (1992); Curiosités Esthétiques (1868 / 1962); Fusées (1897); La Fanfarlo (1847); L'art romantique (1868); Le Peintre de la Vie Moderne (1863); Le Spleen de Paris (1869 / 2021); Les Fleurs du mal / The Flowers of Evil (1857); Les paradis artificiels (1860); Mirror of Art (1955); Mon Cœur Mis à Nu, 1897 / My Heart Laid Bare & Other Texts (2017 / 2020); Œuvres Complètes, 1922–53 (19 volumes) (date?); Œuvres Posthumes et Correspondance Générale (1887–1907); Réflexions sur Quelques-uns de mes Contemporains (1861); Salon de 1845 (1845); Salon de 1846 (1846); Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire (1986); Selected Writings on Art and Artists (1972); The Essence of Laughter (1956); The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays (1964); Translations from Charles Baudelaire (1869); Twenty Prose Poems (1988).

Movies, television and podcast series:

A bor lelke (1999); A Single Man (2009); Assommons les pauvres (1969); At the Top of the Stairs (1983); Aux arts et cætera (2022); Brunner ist dran (1973); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Chibamar Bronx em As Flores do Mal (2024); Cineficción Radio (2020–2024); Correspondances (1954); De mes amours décomposées (1970); Delirium (2018); Don Juan és a kövendég (1978); El mundo de Gaudí (1976); Épique Épochè (2022); Exclosion (2007); Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010); Gustave Courbet (1999); Gustave Courbet, les origines de son monde (2007); Histoires extraordinaires à faire peur ou à faire rire... (1949); Il veleno (2012); Ivo Livi, dit Yves Montand (2011); La joie de vivre (1956); La plaie et le couteau, Charles Baudelaire (1967); L'art et les hommes (1958); Le doc Stupéfiant (2021); Le plaisir croit avec l'usage (1999); Les Colocs: L'Intégrale 1993-2000 (2000); Les dites cariatides (1984); Les fleurs du mal (1991); Les Fleurs du mal de Charles Baudelaire (2022); Les Nuits de France Culture (2016); Les passagers (1999); Lil' Women 9 - Go to Jail! (1989); L'invitation au voyage (1927); Literaturverfilmung (1973); Man and the Sea (2018); Messengers (2004); Montand International (1983); Ocean Terminal (1952); Opéra pour Baudelaire (1974); Par coeur (1998); Poèmes à voir (2004); Poésie (dans un monde de brutes) (2020); Portraits of Mistresses (2013); Puissance de la parole (1988); Selecciones de Cineficción Radio (2024); Sigfrido Oliva - Monologo sull'arte (2013); Soleil mouillé (Carnet filmé: 23 décembre 2021) (2022); Le Chat / The Cat (2013); The Eddy (2020); The Passionate Spectator (2003); The Pit and the Pendulum (1964); The Queen's Gambit (2020); Through the Mist (2009); Une Dame de Coeur (2004); Variations La Fontaine (2012); Wilson chante Montand (2017); You Can Only Stand or Walk (2019).

Born on this day – Thomas Meighan:

 

Thomas Meighan


Actor

April 9, 1879 – July 8, 1936

Credits:
Peck's Bad Boy (1934); Madison Square Garden (1932); Cheaters at Play (1932); Skyline (1931); Young Sinners (1931); The Argyle Case (1929); The Mating Call (1928); The Racket (1928); The City Gone Wild (1927); We're All Gamblers (1927); Blind Alleys (1927); The Canadian (1926); Tin Gods (1926); Fascinating Youth (1926); The New Klondike (1926); Irish Luck (1925); The Man Who Found Himself (1925); Old Home Week (1925); Coming Through (1925); Tongues of Flame (1924); The Alaskan (1924); The Confidence Man (1924); Pied Piper Malone (1924); Woman-Proof (1923); Hollywood (1923); Homeward Bound (1923); The Ne'er-Do-Well (1923); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 13 (1922); A Trip to Paramountown (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 1 (1922); Gloria Swanson and Thomas Meighan / Short (1922); Back Home and Broke (1922); The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1922); Manslaughter (1922); If You Believe It, It's So (1922); Our Leading Citizen (1922); The Bachelor Daddy (1922); A Prince There Was (1921); Cappy Ricks (1921); The Conquest of Canaan (1921); White and Unmarried (1921); The City of Silent Men (1921); The Easy Road (1921); Frontier of the Stars (1921); Quest of His Youth (1920); Civilian Clothes (1920); The Prince Chap (1920); Why Change Your Wife? (1920); Peg o' My Heart (1919); Male and Female (1919); The Thunderbolt (1919); The Miracle Man (1919); The Probation Wife (1919); The Heart of Wetona (1919); Norma Talmadge and Thomas Meighan in a Liberty Loan Appeal / Short (1918); The Forbidden City (1918); Out of a Clear Sky (1918); Heart of the Wilds (1918); In Pursuit of Polly (1918); Missing (1918); M'Liss (1918); Eve's Daughter (1918); Madame Jealousy (1918); The Land of Promise (1917); Arms and the Girl (1917); The Mysterious Miss Terry (1917); Her Better Self (1917); The Silent Partner (1917); Sleeping Fires (1917); Sapho (1917); The Slave Market (1917); The Heir to the Hoorah (1916); The Storm (1916); Common Ground (1916); The Dupe (1916); The Clown (1916); The Sowers (1916); The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916); Pudd'nhead Wilson (1916); The Immigrant (1915); Armstrong's Wife (1915); The Secret Sin (1915); Blackbirds (1915); Out of the Darkness (1915); The Fighting Hope (1915); Kindling (1915); Danny Donovan, the Gentleman Cracksman (1914).

Born on this day – Mance Lipscomb:


Mance Lipscomb


Blues singer

Guitarist

April 9, 1895 – January 30, 1976
Credits:

Albums:

Captain, Captain! (1996); Mama Don't Allow (1996); Navasota (2021); So Different Blues (1993); Texas Sharecropper and Songster (1960); Texas Songster: Volume 2 (1964); Trouble in Mind (1969); Vol. 4 (1967); Vol. 5: Texas Blues and 3 Other Songs (1970); Volume 6 (1974).

Movies and television:

A Well-Spent Life (1971); Blues Under the Skin (1973); Singin' the Yodeling Blues (1983); The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (1970); The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon (1996).

Book:

I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman (1993).