Sunday, April 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.

Daniel J. Boorstin, on books:

 
Books are the main source of our knowledge, our reservoir of first faith, memory, wisdom, morality, poetry, philosophy, history and science.
- Daniel J. Boorstin.

Born on this day – Douglas Sirk:


Douglas Sirk


Director

Writer

April 26, 1897 – January 14, 1987

Credits:
A Scandal in Paris (1946); A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958); Accord final (1938); Acting for Douglas Sirk: 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' Remembered (2008); Against All Flags (1952); All I Desire (1953); All That Heaven Allows (1955); April, April! (1935); Battle Hymn (1957); Behind the Mirror: A Profile of Douglas Sirk (1979); Boefje (1939); Bourbon Street Blues (1979); Captain Lightfoot (1955); Century of Cinema (1995); Cinéma cinémas / Segment: Douglas Sirk Lugano-Genève avril 1982 (1982); Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense (2010); Das Hofkonzert (1936); Der eingebildete Kranke (1935); Douglas Sirk - Hope as in Despair (2022); Douglas Sirk: Über Stars (1980); Dreimal Ehe (1935); Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002); Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk (1979); Filmlegenden. Deutsch (2005); From UFA to Hollywood: Douglas Sirk Remembers (1991); Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952); Hitler's Madman (1943); Im Schatten der Träume (2024); Imagine in Oglinda (2021); Imitation of Life (1959); Interlude (1957); La chanson du souvenir (1937); La Habanera (1937); Liebling der Matrosen (1937); Love Me Not (2019); Lured (1947); Magnificent Obsession (1954); Meet Me at the Fair (1953); Mirage de la vie (1983); My Life for Zarah Leander (1986); Mystery Submarine (1950); Never Say Goodbye (1956); No Room for the Groom (1952); Pillars of Society (1935); Quand la peur dévore l'âme (2007); Quelques jours avec Sirk (2008); Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (2023); Shockproof (1949); Sign of the Pagan (1954); Silvesternacht - Ein Dialog (1978); Sleep, My Love (1948); Slightly French (1949); Spécial cinéma (1984–1987); Sprich zu mir wie der Regen (1976); Summer Storm (1944); 't was een April (1936); Take Me to Town (1953); Taza, Son of Cochise (1954); The Final Chord (1936); The First Legion (1951); The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935); The Lady Pays Off (1951); The Making of 'Far from Heaven' (2002); The Strange Woman (1946); The Tarnished Angels (1957); There's Always Tomorrow (1956); Thunder on the Hill (1951); To New Shores (1937); Triad (1938); Week-End with Father (1951); Written on the Wind (1956); Zwei Genies (1934).


Born on this day – Hamilton MacFadden:


Hamilton MacFadden


Actor

Writer

Director

April 26, 1901 – January 1, 1977

Credits:
Are You There? (1930); As Husbands Go (1934); Charlie Chan Carries On (1931); Charlie Chan in Paris (1935); Charlie Chan in Reno (1939); Charlie Chan in Rio (1941); Charlie Chan's Greatest Case (1933); Cheaters at Play (1932); Chicken Wagon Family (1939); Crazy That Way (1930); Crazy That Way (1930); Dressed to Kill (1941); Elinor Norton (1934); Escape by Night (1937); Fighting Youth (1935); Five of a Kind (1938); Harmony at Home (1930); Hold That Girl (1934); Inside the Law (1942); It Can't Last Forever (1937); Keep Smiling (1938); Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940); Oh, for a Man! (1930); Pardon Our Nerve (1939); Pier 13 (1940); Ride, Kelly, Ride (1941); Riders of the Purple Sage (1931); Sea Racketeers (1937); Second Hand Wife (1933); Sharpshooters (1938); She Was a Lady (1934); Shooting High (1940); Sleepers West (1941); Stand Up and Cheer! (1934); Tarnished Angel (1938); The Black Camel (1931); The Fourth Horseman (1932); The Honeymoon's Over (1939); The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939); The Lady in Question (1940); The Legion of Missing Men (1937); The Man Who Dared (1933); The Power of God (1942); The Reluctant Dragon (1941); Their Mad Moment (1931); Three Legionnaires (1937); Time Out for Murder (1938); Touchdown, Army (1938); Trick for Trick (1933); Unmarried (1939); While New York Sleeps (1938); Wilson (1944); Yesterday's Heroes (1940); Young America (1942); Youth for the Kingdom (1945).

Born on this day – Dorothy Sebastian:

 

Dorothy Sebastian


Actress

April 26, 1903 – April 8, 1957

Credits:
A Woman of Affairs (1928); Allez Oop! (1934); Among the Living (1941); Beauty à la Mud (1926); Bluebeard's Seven Wives (1925); Brothers (1930); California (1927); Compression (2017); Contraband (1933); Contrabando (1932); Days of Jesse James (1939); Free and Easy (1930); George White's Scandals (1945); Hell's Island (1930); His First Command (1929); Isle of Forgotten Women (1927); Kansas Cyclone (1941); Ladies Must Play (1930); Love (1927); Montana Moon (1930); Morgan's Last Raid (1929); No Sleep on the Deep (1934); Officer O'Brien (1930); On Ze Boulevard (1927); Our Blushing Brides (1930); Our Dancing Daughters (1928); Radio Barred (1936); Reap the Wild Wind (1942); Rough Riders' Round-up (1939); Sackcloth and Scarlet (1925); Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5 (1930); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 20 (1930); Ship of Wanted Men (1933); Ships of Hate (1931); Show People (1928); Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927); Spite Marriage (1929); Tea for Three (1927); The Adventurer (1927); The Arizona Kid (1939); The Arizona Wildcat (1927); The Big Gamble (1931); The Deceiver (1931); The Demi-Bride (1927); The Devil's Apple Tree (1929); The Haunted Ship (1927); The House of Scandal (1928); The Life of Vergie Winters (1934); The Lightning Flyer (1931); The Miracle of the Bells (1948); The Mysterious Pilot (1937); The Rainbow (1929); The Rounder (1930); The Show (1927); The Single Standard (1929); The Spirit of Youth (1929); The Unholy Night (1929); The Utah Kid (1930); The Voice of Hollywood No. 12 (1930); The Wide Open Spaces (1931); The Women (1939); Their Hour (1928); They Never Come Back (1932); Torrent (1926); True to the Army (1942); Twelve Miles Out (1927); Why Women Love (1925); Winds of Chance (1925); Wyoming (1928); You'd Be Surprised (1926).

Born on this day – Shirley Griffith:


Shirley Griffith


Blues singer

Guitarist

April 26, 1907 – June 18, 1974

Credits:

Mississippi Blues (1973); The Blues of J. T. Adams and Shirley Griffith: Indiana Ave. Blues (1964); The Blues of Shirley Griffith: Saturday Blues (1965).

Book references:

Blues: A Regional Experience (Greenwood Guides to American Roots Music) 1st Edition, by Eric LeBlanc (2013); The Guinness Who's Who of Blues, by Colin Larkin (1995).