Saturday, October 17, 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.

Epictetus, on reading and writing:

 
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

– Epictetus.


Born on this day – Elinor Glyn:


Elinor Glyn


Writer

October 17, 1864 – September 23, 1943
Credits:
The Visits Of Elizabeth (1901); The Seventh Commandment (1902); The Reflections Of Ambrosine (1903); The Vicissitudes of Evangeline (1905); Beyond the Rocks (1906); Three Weeks (1907); Elizabeth Visits America (1909); His Hour (1910); Halcyone (1912); Love Itself (1912); The Reason Why (1912); Guinevere's Lover (1913); The Sequence (1913); Your Affectionate Godmother (1914); The Career of Katherine Bush (1916); Family (1919); The Price Of Things (1924); Six Days (1924); The Great Moment (1925); Man and Maid (1925); This Passion Called Love (1925); Love's Blindness (1926); It (1927); The Man and the Moment (1927); Eternal Youth (1928); Red Hair (1928); Glorious Flames (1932); Love's Hour (1932); Such Men are Dangerous (1933); Sooner Or Later (1934); The Contrast and Other Stories (1913); The Three Things (1915); Destruction (1918); The Point Of View (1920); The Elinor Glyn System of Writing (1922); The Philosophy of Love (1923); The Wrinkle Book, Or, How to Keep Looking Young (1927); Romantic Adventure (1937); Keep Young and Beautiful (1982).

Born on this day – Spring Byington:


Spring Byington


Actress

October 17, 1886 – September 7, 1971
Credits:
The Flying Nun (1968); Blondie (1968); I Dream of Jeannie (1967); Batman (1966); Dr. Kildare (1965); Kentucky Jones (1965); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); Mister Ed (1963); Laramie (1961–1963); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960); The Tab Hunter Show (1960); Goodyear Theatre (1960); The Detectives (1960); Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960); December Bride (1954–1959); Strange Stories (1956); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); Studio 57 (1956); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Rocket Man (1954); The Danny Thomas Show (1953); Because You're Mine (1952); No Room for the Groom (1952); Bannerline (1951); Angels in the Outfield (1951); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); According to Mrs. Hoyle (1951); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1951); Walk Softly, Stranger (1950); Devil's Doorway (1950); The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950); Louisa (1950); Please Believe Me (1950); The Reformer and the Redhead (1950); The Big Wheel (1949); In the Good Old Summertime (1949); B.F.'s Daughter (1948); It Had to Be You (1947); Singapore (1947); Cynthia (1947); Living in a Big Way (1947); My Brother Talks to Horses (1947); Faithful in My Fashion (1946); Little Mister Jim (1946); Dragonwyck (1946); A Letter for Evie (1946); Meet Me on Broadway (1946); Captain Eddie (1945); Thrill of a Romance (1945); Salty O'Rourke (1945); The Enchanted Cottage (1945); I'll Be Seeing You (1944); Reward Unlimited (1944); The Heavenly Body (1944); Sucker Bait (1943); Heaven Can Wait (1943); Presenting Lily Mars (1943); The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942); The Affairs of Martha (1942); Rings on Her Fingers (1942); Roxie Hart (1942); The Vanishing Virginian (1942); When Ladies Meet (1941); Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime (1941); The Devil and Miss Jones (1941); Meet John Doe (1941); Arkansas Judge (1941); Lucky Partners (1940); My Love Came Back (1940); On Their Own (1940); Young as You Feel (1940); Laddie (1940); The Blue Bird (1940); A Child Is Born (1939); Too Busy to Work (1939); Quick Millions (1939); Chicken Wagon Family (1939); The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939); The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939); Everybody's Baby (1939); Down on the Farm (1938); You Can't Take It with You (1938); Safety in Numbers (1938); A Trip to Paris (1938); Jezebel (1938); Love on a Budget (1938); Penrod and His Twin Brother (1938); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938); The Buccaneer (1938); The Jones Family in Borrowing Trouble (1937); Hot Water (1937); It's Love I'm After (1937); Hotel Haywire (1937); The Road Back (1937); Big Business (1937); Family Affair (1937); Penrod and Sam (1937); Green Light (1937); Clarence (1937); Off to the Races (1937); Theodora Goes Wild (1936); The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936); The Girl on the Front Page (1936); Dodsworth (1936); Stage Struck (1936); Back to Nature (1936); Palm Springs (1936); Educating Father (1936); Every Saturday Night (1936); The Voice of Bugle Ann (1936); The Great Impersonation (1935); Broadway Hostess (1935); Ah Wilderness! (1935); Mutiny on the Bounty (1935); Way Down East (1935); Orchids to You (1935); Love Me Forever (1935); Werewolf of London (1935); Little Women (1933); Papa's Slay Ride (1930).

Born on this day – Richard Connell:


Richard Connell


Writer

October 17, 1893 – November 22, 1949

Credits:

Books:

The Mad Lover (1927); Murder at Sea (1929); Playboy (1936); What Ho! (1937); The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and Other Humorous Tales (1922); The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure (2021); The Most Dangerous Game (aka The Hounds of Zaroff) (1924); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957); The Ghouls Book 1 (1971).

Movies and television:

A Game of Death (1945); Actor's Studio (1949); Balalaika (1939); Bloodlust! (1961); Bright Lights (1925); Brother Orchid (1940); Cheer Up and Smile (1930); Dark Streets (1929); Doctor Rhythm (1938); Double Trouble (1953); East of Broadway (1924); F-Man (1936); General Electric Theater (1958); Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945); Hired Wife (1940); Hounds of Zaroff (2016); Love on Toast (1937); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Luxury Liner (1948); Meet John Doe (1941); Most Dangerous Game (2020–2023); New Year's Eve (1929); Nice Girl? (1941); No Place to Go (1927); Okusama ni shirasu bekarazu (1937); Our Relations (1936); Painted People (1924); Presenting Lily Mars (1943); Rio Rita (1942); Run for the Sun (1956); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Seven Faces (1929); Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (1987); The Cowboy and the Lady (1938); The Dangerous Game (1953); The Kid from Brooklyn (1946); The Milky Way (1936); The most compassionate game (2021); The Most Dangerous Game (1932 / 2022); The Suckers (1972); The Woman Hunt (1972); Thrill of a Romance (1945); Two Girls and a Sailor (1944).

Born on this day – Jean Arthur:


Jean Arthur


Actress

October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991

Credits:
4 Clowns (1970); A Foreign Affair (1948); A Lady Takes a Chance (1943); A Man of Nerve (1925); Adventure in Manhattan (1936); AFI Life Achievement Award (1980); America at the Movies (1976); American Masters (1989); Arizona (1940); Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel (2001); Biff Bang Buddy (1924); Bigger and Better Blondes (1927); Billy Wilder Speaks (2006); Born to Battle (1926); Bringin' Home the Bacon (1924); Brotherly Love (1928); Cameo Kirby (1923); Case Dismissed (1924); Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl (1999); Compression (2023–2024); Danger Lights (1930); Diamond Jim (1935); Double Daring (1926); Easy Living (1937); Eight-Cylinder Bull (1926); Ex-Bad Boy (1931); False Positive (2021); Fast and Fearless (1924); Flying Luck (1927); Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1999); Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero (1998); George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984); Get That Venus (1933); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Gunsmoke (1965); Half Way to Heaven (1929); Hello Lafayette (1927); History Is Made at Night (1937); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Horse Shoes (1927); Husband Hunters (1927); If You Could Only Cook (1935); I'll Be There (1927); Lightning Bill (1926); Monks a la Mode (1923); More Than a Secretary (1936); Most Precious Thing in Life (1934); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); My Little Brother (1924); Only Angels Have Wings (1939); Paramount op parade (1930); Party Wire (1935); Public Hero Number 1 (1935); Ridin' Rivals (1926); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12 (1938); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No 10 (1940); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 (1939); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 2 (1939); Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 24 (1930); Seven Chances (1925); Shane (1953); Sins of the Fathers (1928); Somebody Lied (1923); Spring Fever (1923); Stairs of Sand (1929); Street of Chance (1930); Stu's Show (2023); Tearin' Loose (1925); The Block Signal (1926); The Broken Gate (1927); The Canary Murder Case (1929); The College Boob (1926); The Cowboy Cop (1926); The Defense Rests (1934); The Devil and Miss Jones (1941); The Drug Store Cowboy (1925); The Ed Sullivan Show (1955); The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936); The Fighting Cheat (1926); The Fighting Smile (1925); The Gang Buster (1931); The Greene Murder Case (1929); The Hurricane Horseman (1925); The Impatient Years (1944); The Jean Arthur Show (1966); The Lady with the Torch (1999); The Lawyer's Secret (1931); The Mad Racer (1926); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Masked Menace (1927); The Merv Griffin Show (1973–1974); The More the Merrier (1943); The Movies (2019); The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929); The Past of Mary Holmes (1933); The Plainsman (1936); The Poor Nut (1927); The Powerful Eye (1924); The Public Menace (1935); The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930); The Roaring Rider (1926); The Saturday Night Kid (1929); The Silver Horde (1930); The Talk of the Town (1942); The Whole Town's Talking (1935); This Is Your Life (1955); Thundering Romance (1924); Thundering Through (1925); Too Many Husbands (1940); Travelin' Fast (1924); Twisted Triggers (1926); Under Fire (1926); Virtuous Husband (1931); Wallflowers (1928); Warming Up (1928); Whirlpool (1934); Wine of Youth (1924); Winners of the Wilderness (1927); Yesterday and Today (1953); You Can't Take It with You (1938); Young Eagles (1930).