Sunday, April 12, 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.

Joseph Conrad, on writing:

 
My task, which I am trying to achieve is,
by the power of the written word,
to make you hear, to make you feel -
it is, before all, to make you see.
- Joseph Conrad.


Born on this day – Virginia Cherrill:


Virginia Cherrill


Actress

April 12, 1908 – November 14, 1996

Credits:
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case (1933); City Lights (1931); Delicious (1931); Fast Workers (1933); Girls Demand Excitement (1931); He Couldn't Take It (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 (1934); Ladies Must Love (1933); Late Extra (1935); Money Mad (1934); The Air Circus (1928); The Brat (1931); The Nuisance (1933); Troubled Waters (1936); Unknown Chaplin (1983); What Price Crime (1935); White Heat (1934).

Born on this day – Beverly Cleary:

 

Beverly Cleary


Writer

April 12, 1916 – March 25, 2021
Credits:
 
Books:
 
A Girl from Yamhill (1988); A Newbery Halloween (1993); Beaver and Wally (1961); Beezus and Ramona (1955); Dear Mr. Henshaw (1983); Ellen Tebbits (1951); Emily's Runaway Imagination (1961); Fifteen (1956); Golden Treasure (1976); Henry and Beezus (1952); Henry and Ribsy (1954); Henry and the Clubhouse (1962); Henry and the Paper Route (1957); Henry Huggins (1950); Here Come the Twins (1989); Here's Beaver! (1961); Janet's Thingamajigs (1987); Jean and Johnny (1959); Just for Me: My Ramona Quimby Journal (2013); Leave It to Beaver (1978); Lucky Chuck (1984); Mitch and Amy (1967); Mouse House Trio (1989); My Own Two Feet (1995); Otis Spofford (1953); Petey's Bedtime Story (1993); Ralph S. Mouse (1982); Ramona and Her Father (1977); Ramona and Her Mother (1979); Ramona Forever (1984); Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (1981); Ramona the Brave (1975); Ramona the Pest (1968); Ramona's World (1999); Ribsy (1964); Ribsy and the P.T.A (1963); Runaway Ralph (1970); School's In! (2001); Sister of the Bride (1963); Socks (1973); Strider (1991); The Beezus and Ramona Diary (1986); The Best of Ramona (2002); The Complete Ramona Collection (2009); The Growing-Up Feet (1987); The Hullabaloo ABC (1960); The Luckiest Girl (1958); The Mouse and the Motor Cycle (1965); The Ralph Mouse Collection (2001); The Ramona Collection: Vol 1 (2006); The Ramona Collection: Vol 2 (2009); The Real Hole (1962); The Trouble with Beezus and Ramona (2010); The Twins Again (1989); The Unstoppable Beezus and Ramona (2010); The World of Beverly Cleary Collection (2016); Two Dog Biscuits (1963); Two Times the Fun (2005); Young Love by Beverly Cleary (1982).
 
Movies and television:
 
ABC Weekend Specials (1986–1990); Ramona (1988–1989); Ramona and Beezus (2010); Today (2016).

Born on this day – Ann Miller:

 

Ann Miller


Actress

Dancer

Singer

April 12, 1923 – January 22, 2004
Credits:
A Century of Cinema (1994); A Show Business Salute to Milton Berle (1973); Allen Ludden's Gallery (1969); America After Dark (1957); American Masters (2004); America's All-Star Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor (1989); America's Dance Honors (1990); Angela Rippon Meets (1981); Anne of Green Gables (1934); At Long Last Cole (1975); Begin the Beguine (2003); Biography (1993–2000); Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003); Carolina Blues (1944); Cole Porter in Hollywood: Too Darn Hot (2003); Dames at Sea (1971); Deep in My Heart (1954); Donahue (1973); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1998); E! True Hollywood Story (2001); Eadie Was a Lady (1945); Easter Parade (1948); Easter Parade: On the Avenue (2005); Eve Knew Her Apples (1945); George Jessel's Here Come the Stars (1968); Girl Talk (1967); Go West, Young Lady (1941); Good Morning America (1989); Goodnight, We Love You (2004); Great Performances (1996–1998); Gypsy (1966–1968); Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987); Having Wonderful Time (1938); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941); Hey, Rookie (1944); Hit Parade of 1941 (1940); Hit the Deck (1955); Hollywood goes to a World Premiere (1964); Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987); Home Improvement (1993); Hour Magazine (1982–1984); Inside the Dream Factory (1995); Inside the Marx Brothers (2003); It's Your Bet (1970); Jam Session (1944); Joanne Carson's VIPs (1973); Kiss Me Kate (1953); Larry King Live (2001); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1994); Late Night with David Letterman (1986); Life with Linkletter (1970); Lights, Camera, Action!: A Century of the Cinema (1996); Love, American Style / Love and the Christmas Punch (1972); Lovely to Look At (1952); Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie (1993); Lux Video Theatre (1953); Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1979); Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1981); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Meet the Stars #8: Stars Past and Present (1941); Melody Ranch (1940); Mighty Manhattan, New York's Wonder City (1949); Movie Memories with Debbie Reynolds (1991); Mulholland Drive (2001); New Faces of 1937 (1937); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Omnibus (2001); On the Town (1949); Out of This World (1990); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1968); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1958); Philbin's People (1970); Priorities on Parade (1942); Private Screenings (1997); Radio City Music Hall's Grand Re-Opening Gala (1999); Radio City Revels (1938); Reveille with Beverly (1943); Rita (2003); Room Service (1938); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1969); Sailor's Holiday (1944); Sally Jessy Raphael (1991); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1941); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1958); Screen Snapshots, Series 19, No. 4 (1940); Small Town Girl (1953); Stage Door (1937); Talking Pictures (1968); Tarnished Angel (1938); Texas Carnival (1951); That Regis Philbin Show (1965); That's Dancing! (1985); That's Entertainment III: Behind the Screen (1994); That's Entertainment! (1974); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment!: The Masters Behind the Musicals (2004); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 100 Greatest Musicals (2003); The 1994 Annual Diversity Awards (1994); The 19th Annual Nosotros Golden Eagle Awards (1989); The 26th Annual Grammy Awards (1984); The 34th Annual Tony Awards (1980); The 35th Annual Thalians Gala (1990); The 35th Annual Tony Awards (1981); The 36th Annual Tony Awards (1982); The 52nd Annual Academy Awards (1980); The 58th Annual Academy Awards (1986); The 9th Annual American Cinema Awards (1992); The Arthur Murray Party (1958); The Bell Telephone Hour (1966); The Big Record (1957); The Bob Braun Show (1972); The Bob Hope Show (1957); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1955); The Desilu Story (2003); The Devil on Horseback (1936); The Dick Cavett Show (1969–1971); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1957); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953–1954); The Ed Sullivan Show (1960); The Good Fairy (1935); The Great American Pastime (1956); The Hollywood Palace (1964–1967); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1968–1971); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The John Davidson Show (1981); The John Gary Show (1967); The Jonathan Winters Show (1968); The Juke Box Jury (1959); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1998); The Kissing Bandit (1948); The Kissing Bandit (1948); The Lady with the Torch (1999); The Life of the Party (1937); The Linkletter Show (1967); The Love Boat (1982); The Magical World of Disney (1989); The Merv Griffin Show (1968–1984); The Mike Douglas Show (1967–1979); The Opposite Sex (1956); The Rosey Grier Show (1970); The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1998); The Royal Variety Performance 1988 (1988); The Thrill of Brazil (1946); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1965); The Virginia Graham Show (1971); The Woody Woodbury Show (1968); The18th Annual Nosotros Golden Eagle Awards (1988); This Is Your Life (1980–1995); This Is Your Life (1984); Time Out for Rhythm (1941); Today (1972); Too Many Girls (1940); True to the Army (1942); Two Tickets to Broadway (1951); Unhinged (1982); Vicki! (1992); Watch the Birdie (1950); What's Buzzin', Cousin? (1943); What's My Line? (1956); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); You Can't Take It with You (1938); Your Choice for the Film Awards (1973–1975).

Born on this day – Patt Shea:

 

Patt Shea


Writer

April 12, 1931 – April 12, 2024
Credits:
All in the Family (1979); Archie Bunker's Place (1979–1983); Bagdad Cafe (1990); Cagney & Lacey (1982); Gloria (1982–1983); Happy Days (1980); Hell Town (1985); I Married Dora (1987); In the Beginning (1978); In the Heat of the Night (1992); Lou Grant (1980–1981); Mama Malone (1984); Marblehead Manor (1987–1988); Nothing Is Easy (1987); Sanford (1980); The Egg Plant Lady (2000); The Golden Girls (1987); The Jeffersons (1977–1978); Valerie (1987).