Thursday, February 26, 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.

Paulo Coelho, on writing:

 

I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.

- Paulo Coelho.



Victor Hugo, on books:

 
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
- Victor Hugo.


Recommended reading - The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century

 

The Best American Mystery Stories of the 19th Century

by Otto Penzler.

The Best American Series.

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Published 2014.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0544302222
ISBN-13: 978-0544302228
 
Description:

An unparalleled treasury of crime, mystery, and murder from the genre’s founding century.

With stories by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, and Jack London, The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century is an essential anthology of American letters. It’s a unique blend of beloved writers who contributed to the genre and forgotten names that pioneered the form, such as Anna Katharine Green, the godmother of mystery fiction, and the African-American writer Charles W. Chesnutt. Of course, Penzler includes “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” recognized as the first detective story, and with thirty-three stories spanning the years 1824–1899, nowhere else can readers find such a surprising, comprehensive take on the evolution of the American mystery story.

Born on this day – Victor Hugo:


Victor Hugo


Writer

Politician

February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885
Credits:

Written work:

Amy Robsart (1821); Cast Up By the Sea (1879); Cromwell (1827); Hernani (1830); History of a Crime (1877); How to Be a Grandfather (poems) (1877); Les Miserables (1862); Marion De Lorme (1831); Mary Tudor (1833); Ninety-Three / aka Quatrevingt-Treize (1874); Ruy Blas (1838); Selected Poetry (poems) (2001); The Distance, the Shadows (poems) (1997); The Hunchback of Notre Dame / aka Notre Dame de Paris (1831); The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829); The Man Who Laughs / aka L’Homme qui rit (1869); The Toilers of the Sea / aka Les Travailleurs de la Mer (1866); Things Seen / aka Choses vues (1887).

Movies and television:

A csavargó (1918); A Fool's Revenge (1909); A New Life (1909); Aa mujô - Dai ippen: Hôrô no maki (1923); Aa mujô - Dai nihen: Shichô no maki (1923); Aa mujô re mîzerabûru dainihen (1923); Aa mujô: kôhen (1929); Aa mujô: zenpen (1929); AKA (2002); Al Bouasa (1978); Alagna: Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné (2014); Alta comedia (1970–1972); Angelo, tyran de Padoue (2009); Arm Joe (1998); Au siècle de Maupassant: Contes et nouvelles du XIXème siècle (2009); Binavayan (1997); Biography (1996); Bob herceg / Musical TV Theater (1987); Caccia all'uomo (1948); Choses vues (1985); Cineficción Radio (2021); Comédie-Française in cinemas (2018); Comédie-Française, derrière le rideau (2020); Delusions of Grandeur (1971); Der König amüsiert sich (1918); Der rote Henker (1920); Die Liebe und die Königin (1977); Disney's Animated Storybook: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996); Don Caesar de Bazan (1915); Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (2021); El rey se divierte (1944); Emmenez-moi au théâtre (1985); Encounter (1958); Ernani (1981 / 1982 / 2007); Esmeralda (1905 / 1922); French Movie (2016); Gavroche (1987); Gavrosh (1937 / 1986); Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto, Melodramma in three acts (2008); Great Performances (1995); Great Performances at the Met (1987–2022); Hernani (1910 / 1911 / 1961 / 1975); Hugo the Hunchback (1910); Hunchback (1983); I riassuntini (2018); Il gobbo di Notre Dame (1998); Il tiranno di Padova (1946); Invitation au voyage (2020–2022); Janbarujan: kohen (1931); Janbarujan: Zenpen (1931); Jean Valjean (1961); Jean Valjean monogatari (1979); Kozete (1977); La conscience (1987); La déroute (1957); La Gioconda (1958 / 1979 / 1986 / 1988 / 2013); La joie de vivre (1956); La minute nécessaire de Monsieur Cyclopède (1982); La régularité est le goût de la médiocrité (2016); La tragedia di Pulcinella (1913); Lail Almosaferin (2000–2002); Le crucifix (1909); Le débutant (1986); Le dernier jour d'un condamné (1985); Le Golden Show (2013); Le mariage de Quascimodo (2013); Le miroir à trois faces: Rigoletto (1966 / 1968); Le roi s'amuse (1909); Le téléthéâtre de Radio-Canada (1962); Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1961–1963); Les Contemplations de Victor Hugo (2022); Les disparus de St. Agil (1938); Les Misérables (1888 / 1909 / 1912 / 1917 / 1922 / 1925 / 1934 / 1935 / 1943 / 1952 / 1958 / 1964 / 1967 / 1972 / 1978 / 1982 / 1988 / 1995 / 1998 / 2000 / 2012 / 2018–2019); Les Miserables (Part I) (1909); Les miserables (Part II) (1909); Les misérables (Part III) (1909); Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary (2010); Les Misérables, Part 1: Jean Valjean (1913); Les Misérables, Part 2: Fantine (1913); Les Misérables, Part 3: Cosette (1913); Les Misérables, Part 4: Cosette and Marius (1913); Les Misérables: Flag of Love and Liberty (1950); Les Misérables: Gods and Demons (1950); Les Miserables: Shoujo Cosette (2007); Les pauvres gens (1938); Les travailleurs de la mer (1918); L'exilé (2002); L'homme qui rit: Creating the Play (2019–2020); Los miserables (1973 / 1981 / 2014); Lucrezia Borgia (1977 / 1980 / 1994 / 2009 / 2013); L'uomo che ride (1966); Manga sekai mukashi banashi (1977–1978); Mangeront-ils? (1957); Maria Tudor (1920 / 1917 / 1966); Marion de Lorme (1912 / 1918); Marion Delorme (1919 / 1967); Mashup (2021); Medallion Theatre (1953); Mest shuta (1993); Mil francos de recompense (1965); Mille franchi di ricompensa (1964); Monodrama Theater (1953); Notre Dame de Paris - Live Arena di Verona (2002); Notre-Dame de Paris (1996 / 1998); Novela (1964–1972); Nuestro amigo el libro (1964); O anthropos pou gela (2021); O Corcunda de Notre Dame (1957); On verra demain: Excursion en procrasti-nation (2019); Os Miseráveis (1958 / 1967); Par coeur (1998); Parlez-moi de Vous (2016); Plight of the Poor (1950); Poèmes à voir (2004); Portrait souvenir (1961); Prestige de la musique (1969); Quasimodo d'El Paris (1999); Quatre-vingt-treize (1921 / 1962); Return to Manhood (1957); Rigoletto (1909 / 1946 / 1963 / 1967 / 1977 / 1981 / 1982 / 1987 / 1989 / 2001 / 2003 / 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2019); Rigoletto a Mantova (2010); 'Rigoletto' di Giuseppe Verdi (1987); Rigoletto e la sua tragedia (1956); Robert Montgomery Presents (1954); Ruy Blas (1909 / 1914 / 1948 / 1965 / 1972 / 2002 / 1912); Sea Devils (1953); Sefiller (1967); Sekai Meisaku Gekijou Kanketsu Ban: Les Misérables: Shoujo Cosette Part 2 (2011); Sekai Meisaku Gekijou Kanketsu Ban: Les Misérables: Shoujo Cosette Part 1 (2011); Sirakaruwa (1957); Spectacle d'un soir (1967); St Joseph's Convent Documentary (2017); Super Hunchback (1992); Tausend Francs Belohnung (1974); Teatro de siempre (1967); Television Theater (1955–1997); Tempesta su Parigi (1948); Tense Moments from Great Plays / Notre Dame de Paris / Segments: Esmeralda; Les Misérables (1922); The Bishop's Candlesticks (1913 / 1929 / 1949); The Bishop's Treasure (1952); The Caped Crusader (2021); The Darling of Paris (1917); The Duke's Jester or A Fool's Revenge (1909); The Giant (1938); The Hunchback Bee of Notre Dame (2020); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1911 / 1923 / 1939 / 1956 / 1966 / 1976 / 1982 / 1986 / 1996 / 1997); The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002); The King's Jester (1941); The Man Who Laughs (1921 / 1928 / 1971 / 2012); The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2012–2022); The Ordeal (1909); The Price of a Soul (1909); The Royal Opera: Rigoletto (2022); The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine (1974); The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011); The Spanish Dancer (1923); The Toilers (1919); Toilers of the Sea (1923 / 1936); Torquemada (1976); Une Dame de Coeur (2004); Variations (1962); Verdi: Rigoletto (1961 / 2014 / 2016 / 2022); Whatever Happened to My Revolution (2018); Who's to blame? (2014); Wishbone (1995); Your Show Time (1949).

Born on this day – Jackie Gleason:


Jackie Gleason


Actor

Comedian

Writer

Composer

February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987

Credits:
Nothing in Common (1986); Izzy & Moe (1985); Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson (1983); Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983); The Sting II (1983); The Toy (1982); Smokey and the Bandit II (1980); Smokey and the Bandit (1977); Mr. Billion (1977); Three for Two (1975); How Do I Love Thee? (1970); Don't Drink the Water (1969); How to Commit Marriage (1969); Skidoo (1968); Here's Lucy (1968); The Jackie Gleason Show (1952–1968); Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine (1965); Soldier in the Rain (1963); Papa's Delicate Condition (1963); Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962); Gigot (1962); The Hustler (1961); The Secret World of Eddie Hodges (1960); Playhouse 90 (1958); The Honeymooners (1955–1956); Studio One (1953–1955); The Jack Benny Program (1955); The Best of Broadway (1955); The Red Skelton Hour (1953–1954); The Ed Sullivan Show (1952); Musical Comedy Time (1951); The Desert Hawk (1950); The Life of Riley (1949–1950); Springtime in the Rockies (1942); Orchestra Wives (1942); Escape from Crime (1942); Larceny, Inc (1942); Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! (1942); Lady Gangster (1942); All Through the Night (1942); Steel Against the Sky (1941); Navy Blues (1941).