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.

Ann Patchett, on reading fiction:

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity,
it gives us the skills to be alone.
It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
- Ann Patchett

Recommended reading - A New Omnibus of Crime (2005):

A New Omnibus of Crime

Edited by Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert.

Published by Oxford University Press.

Published 2005.

ISBN-10: 0195182146

ISBN-13: 9780195182149

Contents:

Introduction; The Man Who Knew How; The Girl with the Silver Eyes; Red Wind; The Wench Is Dead; Gone Girl; The Couple Next Door; By the Scruff of the Soul; A Poison That Leaves No Trace; Photo Finish; The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown; Red Clay; Barking at Butterflies; Running Out of Dog; Hostages; When the Women Come Out to Dance; Flowers That Bloom in the Spring; Woodrow Wilsons Necktie; Loopy; Great Aunt Allies Fly Papers; First Lead Gasser; Chee’s Witch; Breathe Deep; Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation; The Hanged Man; The Holly and the Poison Ivy; Copycat; He Loved to Go for Drives with His Father; Credits; Index.

Description:

Three-quarters of a century ago, Dorothy L. Sayers compiled the classic anthology The Omnibus of Crime, a definitive collection of short fiction that brought together crime and mystery works from the Apocryphal Scriptures to whodunits from the 1920s. Now, reflecting the explosive developments in the genre, Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of that book’s publication with A New Omnibus of Crime. Like Sayers’s volume, this new book is envisioned as a vehicle carrying stories the editors think represent the best in crime and mystery writing in our time. Selections also reflect the tastes of Contributing Editors Sue Grafton and Jeffery Deaver, both of whom have stories in this volume. The anthology begins with a story by Sayers herself; other giants of the genre including Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, are also represented among the twenty-seven works. Hillerman and Herbert introduce each story and place each selection in the context of the literary history of the genre. Several of the writers confide the circumstances and real-life happenings that inspired them to write their stories. The book concludes with stories by Jeffery Deaver, Alexander McCall Smith, and Catherine Aird – all in print for the first time here.

While mystery writers in Sayer’s day shunned the love interest as a distraction from a puzzling plot, some of these stories show how the depiction of love – thwarted or otherwise – can effectively enrich crime writing. In the last seven-plus decades, the use of a distinctly regional voice has also revitalized the genre, as our selection of stories shows. And while Sayer’s contemporaries looked at crime as something that could be solved and “tidied up,” writers here take the view that the effects of crime linger like a stain even after a solution has been reached. Illustrating another more recent trend, pets romp through these pages, some in surprising ways. Like passengers on an omnibus, the stories that keep company here are colorful and mixed. Some will inspire laughter while others will incite chills. All will keep readers turning the pages. We invite you to hop on, take a ride, and get to know them.

Born on this day – Dashiell Hammett:

Dashiell Hammett

Writer

May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961

Credits:

Books:

A Man Called Spade (1944); Books to Die For (2012); Breakdown and Other Thrillers (1968); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1989); Creeping Siamese and Other Stories (1950); Creeps by Night (2020); Dashiell Hammett: A Retrospective Anthology (2004); Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories and Other Writings (2001); Dead Yellow Woman (1947); Great Tales of Crime and Detection (1992); Hammett Homicides (1946); Lost Stories (2005); Murder Plus (1992); Nightmare Town and Other Stories (1950); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); Red Brain and Other Thrillers (1961); Red Harvest (1929); Return of the Thin Man (2012); San Francisco Noir 2 (2009); Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett: 1921-1960 (2002); Tales of Mystery (1986); The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories (1944); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); The Big Knockover (1966); The Continental Op (1974); The Crime Wave (2007); The Dain Curse (1929); The Glass Key (1931); The Hunter (2013); The Hunter and Other Stories (2013); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); The Maltese Falcon (1930); The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000); The Thin Man (1934); They Can Only Hang You Once (1944); Vintage Hammett (2005); Woman In The Dark (1933).

Movies and television:

Monsieur Spade (2024); Cineficción Radio (2021); No Good Deed (2002); Fallen Angels (1995); Miller's Crossing (1990); Sam Spade jagt den Malteser Falken (1986); Bande (1986); When the Raven Flies (1984); The Wizard of Malta (1981); La ciudad maldita (1978); The Dain Curse (1978); The Last Round (1976); The Black Bird (1975); The Wide World of Mystery (1975); Maltézský sokol (1968); Der Steckbrief (1967); The Thin Man (1957–1959); Teledrama (1956–1959); The Fat Man (1951); Studio One (1949); Song of the Thin Man (1947); Secret Agent X-9 (1945); The Thin Man Goes Home (1944); Watch on the Rhine (1943); The Glass Key (1942); Shadow of the Thin Man (1941); The Maltese Falcon (1941); Another Thin Man (1939); Have You Got Any Castles? (1938); Secret Agent X-9 (1937); After the Thin Man (1936); Satan Met a Lady (1936); The Glass Key (1935); Mister Dynamite (1935); Woman in the Dark (1934); The Thin Man (1934); The Maltese Falcon (1931); City Streets (1931); Roadhouse Nights (1930).

Born on this day – Lee Garmes:

 

Lee Garmes

Cinematographer

May 27, 1898 – August 31, 1978

Credits:

A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966); A Grim Fairy Tale (1923); A Social Celebrity (1926); Abdullah's Harem (1955); Actors and Sin (1952); An American Tragedy (1931); Angels Over Broadway (1940); Bee's Knees (1924); Beyond Tomorrow (1940); Bright Lights (1930); Call Her Savage (1932); Caught (1949); China Girl (1942); Christmas (1923); Christopher of Columbus (1923); City Streets (1931); Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931); Crack o' Dawn (1925); Crime Without Passion (1934); D-Day the Sixth of June (1956); Detective Story (1951); Dishonored (1931); Disraeli (1929); Dreaming Lips (1937); Duel in the Sun (1946); Entertaining the Boss (1922); Face in the Sky (1933); Fighting Blood (1923); Fighting Caravans (1931); Find Your Man (1924); Flight for Freedom (1943); Footlight Serenade (1942); For the Love of Mike (1924); Forever and a Day (1943); Gall of the Wild (1923); George White's Scandals (1934); Goat Getter (1925); Gone with the Wind (1939); Guest in the House (1944); Hannah Lee: An American Primitive (1953); Happy Anniversary (1959); Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962); His Captive Woman (1929); Hollywood (1980); How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life (1968); I Am Suzanne! (1933); I'll Get Him Yet (1919); Jack London (1943); Judy Punch (1923); Julius Sees Her (1924); Keep 'Em Home (1922); Keep Smiling (1925); King Leary (1924); Kiss Me Again (1931); Lady in a Cage (1964); Land of the Pharaohs (1955); Lilies of the Field (1929); Love and the Devil (1929); Love Letters (1945); Lydia (1941); Man with the Gun (1955); Melo (1932); Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty (1936); Misty (1961); Money to Burns (1924); Morocco (1930); My Foolish Heart (1949); My Friend Irma Goes West (1950); My Lips Betray (1933); Never Love a Stranger (1958); Nightmare Alley (1947); Nobody Home (1919); None Shall Escape (1944); Nugget Nell (1919); Once in a Blue Moon (1935); Our Very Own (1950); Paris Underground (1945); Portrait of Jennie (1948); Prisoners (1929); Rose of the Golden West (1927); Roseanna McCoy (1949); Saturday's Hero (1951); Say It with Songs (1929); Scarface (1932); Shame, Shame on the Bixby Boys (1978); Shanghai Express (1932); Shanghai Madness (1933); Sherlock's Home (1924); Since You Went Away (1944); Six Second Smith (1923); Smilin' Through (1932); Some Punches and Judy (1923); Specter of the Rose (1946); Spring Is Here (1930); Stormy Weather (1943); Strange Interlude (1932); Talking Film (1978); Ten Girls Ago (1962); That's My Boy (1951); The Barker (1928); The Big Boodle (1957); The Big Fisherman (1959); The Bottom of the Bottle (1956); The Captive City (1952); The Carnival Girl (1926); The Conquest of the Air (1931); The Defenders (1961); The Desperate Hours (1955); The End of a Perfect Fray (1923); The Fighting Kentuckian (1949); The Forsaken Westerns (2018); The Furies (1950); The Garden of Allah (1927); The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926); The Great Divide (1929); The Hope Chest (1918); The Jungle Book (1942); The Knight in Gale (1923); The Knight That Failed (1923); The Lieutenant (1963); The Lighthouse by the Sea (1924); The Lilac Domino (1937); The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1928); he Love Mart (1927); The Lusty Men (1952); The Moviemakers (1985); The Other Tomorrow (1930); The Palm Beach Girl (1926); The Paradine Case (1947); The Popular Sin (1926); The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927); The Scoundrel (1935); The Searching Wind (1946); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947); The Sharkfighters (1956); The Show-Off (1926); The Sky's the Limit (1938); The Song of the Flame (1930); The Square Sex (1924); The Texan (1960); The Three Orphans (1923); Their First Vacation (1922); Thunder in the East (1952); Two Stones with One Bird (1923); Waterfront (1928); Welcome Granger (1925); When Gale and Hurricane Meet (1923); When Knighthood Was in Tower (1924); Whoopee! (1930); Why (1971 / 1973); William Tells (1924); Yellow Lily (1928); Young Widow (1946); Zoo in Budapest (1933).

Born on this day – Jacqueline Delubac:

Jacqueline Delubac

Actress

May 27, 1907 – October 14, 1997

Credits:

Au cinéma ce soir (1972); Bonne chance! (1935); Chérie (1930); Compression (2018); Dernière jeunesse (1939); Désiré (1937); Du côté de chez Fred (1989); Ecco la felicità (1940); Fièvres (1942); Grand écran (1974); Hommage à Raimu (1976); Jeunes filles en détresse (1939); La comédie de Sacha Guitry (1994); La comédie du bonheur (1940); La nuit des Molières (1992); L'accroche-coeur (1938); Le collier de chanvre (1940); Le furet (1950); Le mot de Cambronne (1937); Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938); Let's Make a Dream (1936); Life Is a Game (1951); Lyon, autopsie d'une grande ville (inventaire des places, squares, parcs et jardins du 5ème arrondissement) (2014); Madame Satan (1939); Marions-nous (1931); My Father Was Right (1936); My First Love (1945); Quadrille (1938); The King's Musketeers (1951); The Man Who Seeks the Truth (1940); The New Testament (1936); The Pearls of the Crown (1937); The Story of a Cheat (1936); Topaze (1933); Une brune piquante (1932); Volpone (1941).