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.

Lisa Scottoline, on writing:

 

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction,
is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.
- Lisa Scottoline.

Recommended reading - Pulp Fiction: The Crimefighters (2006)

 

Pulp Fiction: The Crimefighters

Edited by Otto Penzler

Published by Quercus
Hardcover
 
ISBN-10: 1905204566
ISBN-13: 978-1905204564
 
Description:
 
“These stories still cut, still tear, still even shock … These guys went places maybe they shouldn’t and we love them for it.” – Harlan Coben.
 
Some writing has an edge that time just can’t dull.
Welcome to the world of pulp fiction.
Within these pages are the very best crime stories from the pulp magazines of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.
These are stories of the mean streets of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
These are stories in which danger and death are always just around the corner.
These are the stories which created crime fiction as we know it today.

Recommended reading - Pulp Fiction to Film Noir: The Great Depression and the Development of a Genre (2012)

Pulp Fiction to Film Noir: The Great Depression and the Development of a Genre

by William Hare

 
Published by McFarland
Paperback
 
ISBN-10: 0786466820
ISBN-13: 978-0786466825
 
Description:
 

During the Great Depression, pulp fiction writers created a new, distinctly American detective story, one that stressed the development of fascinating, often bizarre characters rather than the twists and turns of clever plots. This new crime fiction adapted brilliantly to the screen, birthing a cinematic genre that French cinema intellectuals following World War II christened "film noir." Set on dark streets late at night, in cheap hotels and bars, and populated by the dangerous people who frequented these locales, these films introduced a new antihero, a tough, brooding, rebellious loner, embodied by Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep. This volume provides a detailed exploration of film noir, tracing its evolution, the influence of such legendary writers as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, and the films that propelled this dark genre to popularity in the mid-20th century.

Born on this day – Edna Maison:

 

Edna Maison

Actress

August 17, 1892 – January 11, 1946

Credits:

The Mysterious Mr. Browning (1918); A Rich Man's Darling (1918); Love's Turmoil (1917); The Jewel of Death (1917); Mister Vampire (1916); Through Baby's Voice (1916); The Dumb Bandit (1916); The One Woman (1916); After the Play (1916); Undine (1916); The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916); A Daughter of Penance (1916); Buck Simmons, Puncher (1916); Manna (1915); Was She a Vampire? (1915); Vanity (1915); Her Mysterious Escort (1915); One Man's Evil (1915); Under the Crescent (1915); Roses and Thorns (1915); Courage (1915); The Grim Messenger (1915); The Love of Mary West (1915); When Jealousy Tumbled (1915); Her Adopted Mother (1915); The Recoil (1915); The Vaudry Jewels (1915); Lure of the West (1915); The Unmasking (1915); Their Island of Happiness (1915); A Girl of the Pines (1915); The King and the Man (1914); The Heart of a Magdalene (1914); Siss Dobbins, Oil Magnate (1914); Nan of the Hills (1914); The Senator's Lady (1914); Suspended Sentence (1914); The Padrone's Ward (1914); The Mayor's Manicure (1914); The Actress (1914); Richelieu (1914); Be Neutral (1914); A Modern Melnotte (1914); The Angel of the Camp (1914); The Storm Bird (1914); This Is the Life (1914); The Divorcee (1914); The Barnstormers (1914); Kate Waters of the Secret Service (1914); The Pearl of the Sea (1914); The Spy (1914); The Woman in Black (1914); The Brand of Cain (1914); The Masked Rider (1914); Heart Strings (1914); The Transformation of Prudence (1914); Old California (1914); The Taint of an Alien (1914); Risen from the Ashes (1914); Pitfalls (1914); Dangers of the Veldt (1914); Cupid Incognito (1914); The Way of a Woman (1914); By Radium's Rays (1914); The Merchant of Venice (1914); The Option (1914); The Cycle of Adversity (1914); Them Ol' Letters (1914); Three Children (1913); What Happened to Freckles (1913); Freckles' Fight for His Bride (1913); Her Legacy (1913); How Freckles Won His Bride (1913); The Lesson the Children Taught (1913); Playmates (1913); The Kid (1913); The Revelation (1913); The Struggle (1913); Mother (1913); The Little Skipper (1913); The Village Blacksmith (1913); The Death Stone of India (1913); The Second Home-Coming (1913); The Proof of the Man (1913); Poleon the Trapper (1913); The Idol of Bonanza Camp (1913); In Slavery Days (1913); On El Camino Real (1913); A Pig's a Pig (1913); The Bear Hunter (1913); The Spectre Bridegroom (1913); The Faithful Yuma Servant (1913); The Bear Trap (1912); The Padre's Gift (1912); Fate's Decree (1912); A Double Reward (1912); The Branded Arm (1912); Misleading Evidence (1912); For the Sake of the Papoose (1912); A Redman's Friendship (1912); The Girl Sheriff (1912).

Born on this day – Mae West:

 

Mae West

Actress

Singer

Comedian

Writer

August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); AFI Life Achievement Award (1974); All You Need Is Love (1977); America in Color (2018); American Masters (2020); Arena (1999–2012); Backlot USA (1976); Backstory (2001); Becoming Marilyn (2022); Belle of the Nineties (1934); Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995); Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel (2001); Biography (1995); Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes (2024); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Bruce Lee in Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 2 (1999); Carol Doda Topless at the Condor (2023); Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (1988); CBS News Special Report (1974); Cleavage (2002); Complicated Women (2003); Dead Famous (2006); DeTour (2010); Die Wicherts von nebenan (1989); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1999); Et la femme créa Hollywood (2016); Every Day's a Holiday (1937); Fame in the Twentieth Century (1993); Fashions in Love (1936); Frankenpimp's Revenge: The Romeo and Juliet Massacre (2020); Go West Young Man (1936); Goin' to Town (1935); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show' (1992); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood Blue (1970); Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990); Hollywood on Parade (1978); Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywood Rebellen (2013); Hollywood Remembers (2000); Hollywood Sex Symbols (1988); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (2009); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hooray for Hollywood (1982); How to Fly a Lazy Eight (1943); I'm No Angel (1933); Inside the Dream Factory (1995); Intimate Portrait (1999); Invitation au voyage (2021); Junket Whore (1998); Klondike Annie (1936); Legends of Comedy (1993); Living Famously (2003); Look Me Over: Liberace (2021); Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her (1994); Mae West: Die verruchte Blonde (2021); Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America (2009); Mister Ed (1964); Mondo Trasho (1969); My Little Chickadee (1940); My Mom Jayne (2025); My Tongue Is - Quick! (1971); Myra Breckinridge (1970); Naughty Bits (2004); Night After Night (1932); Person to Person (1959); Prisoner in Concert (1981); Russian Doll (2019); Say It with Acting (1949); Screen Goddesses (2006); Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003); Sextette (1977); She Done Him Wrong (1933); Showbiz Ballyhoo (1982); Six Sides of Katharine Hepburn (2018); Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema (2009); Sur nos lèvres: Rouge un jour, rouge toujours? (2022); The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History (1999); The 30th Annual Academy Awards (1958); The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (1981); The Best of Laurel and Hardy (1968); The Casting Couch (1995); The Craig Caddell Show (2017); The Dean Martin Show (1959); The Dick Cavett Show (1976); The Ed Sullivan Show (1948); The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935); The Good, the Bad & the Beautiful (1996); The Great Man: W.C. Fields (2005); The Great Radio Comedians (1972); The Heat's On (1943); The Hollywood Collection: Anthony Quinn an Original (1990); The Hollywood Fashion Machine (1999); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Real Las Vegas (1996); The Red Skelton Hour (1960); The Second Annual Rock Music Awards (1976); The Twentieth Century (1959); Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008); USArt: The Gift of Ourselves (1975); Vito (2011); Wayne and Shuster Take an Affectionate Look at... (1964–1965); Welcome to the Basement (2014–2015); Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007); Wisecracks (1991).