Sunday, April 6, 2025

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.

Jack Kerouac, on writing:

 

It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.
- Jack Kerouac.


Recommended reading - Nightmares & Dreamscapes


Nightmares & Dreamscapes

by Stephen King.

Published by Scribner.
First published 1993.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1501192035
ISBN-13: 978-1501192036

Description:

Includes the story “It Grows on You” – set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine.

The classic short story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.

A wrong turn on a lonely road lands a wayward couple in Rock and Roll Heaven, Oregon, where there’s no escaping the free nightly concert…. A novelty toy becomes an unexpected and terrifying instrument of self-defense…. An ex-con pieces together a map to unearth a stolen million dollars – but at what price?... A private investigator in Depression-era Los Angeles is finding his life unraveling as he discovers the shocking truth of who he really is…. A third-grade teacher is willing to dig deep in order to exact revenge for his murdered wife.... These are just some of the haunting scenarios to be found in this classic collection – spellbinding tales from the darkest places and the unparalleled imagination of fiction’s master storyteller. Stories include: Dolan's Cadillac; The End of the Whole Mess; Suffer the Little Children; The Night Flier; Popsy; It Grows on You; Chattery Teeth; Dedication; The Moving Finger; Sneakers; You Know They Got a Hell of a Band; Home Delivery; Rainy Season; My Pretty Pony; Sorry, Right Number; The Ten O'Clock People; Crouch End; The House on Maple Street; The Fifth Quarter; The Doctor's Case; Umney's Last Case; Head Down; Brooklyn August.

Born on this day – Harold Rosson:


Harold Rosson


Cinematographer

April 6, 1895 – September 6, 1988


Credits:
El Dorado (1966); Decision at Midnight (1965); Onionhead (1958); No Time for Sergeants (1958); The Enemy Below (1957); Conflict (1956); Cheyenne (1955); Toward the Unknown (1956); Warner Brothers Presents (1956); The Bad Seed (1956); Pete Kelly's Blues (1955); Strange Lady in Town (1955); Ulysses (1954); Mambo (1954); The Actress (1953); Dangerous When Wet (1953); I Love Melvin (1953); The Story of Three Loves (1953); Singin' in the Rain (1952); Love Is Better Than Ever (1952); Lone Star (1952); The Red Badge of Courage (1951); To Please a Lady (1950); The Asphalt Jungle (1950); Key to the City (1950); On the Town (1949); Any Number Can Play (1949); The Stratton Story (1949); Command Decision (1948); Homecoming (1948); The Hucksters (1947); Living in a Big Way (1947); My Brother Talks to Horses (1947); Duel in the Sun (1946); No Leave, No Love (1946); Three Wise Fools (1946); Between Two Women (1945); Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944); An American Romance (1944); Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944); Slightly Dangerous (1943); Tennessee Johnson (1942); Somewhere I'll Find You (1942); Tortilla Flat (1942); Johnny Eager (1941); The Chocolate Soldier (1941); Honky Tonk (1941); Washington Melodrama (1941); Men of Boys Town (1941); The Penalty (1941); Flight Command (1940); Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940); Boom Town (1940); Edison, the Man (1940); A Door Will Open (1940); I Take This Woman (1940); Forgotten Victory (1939); The Wizard of Oz (1939); Too Hot to Handle (1938); That Mothers Might Live (1938); A Yank at Oxford (1938); Double Wedding (1937); The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937); Captains Courageous (1937); They Gave Him a Gun (1937); The Garden of Allah (1936); The Devil Is a Sissy (1936); As You Like It (1936); The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936); The Ghost Goes West (1935); The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934); Treasure Island (1934); The Girl from Missouri (1934); The Cat and the Fiddle (1934); This Side of Heaven (1934); Bombshell (1933); Penthouse (1933); Turn Back the Clock (1933); Hold Your Man (1933); The Barbarian (1933); Hell Below (1933); Red Dust (1932); Kongo (1932); Downstairs (1932); Red-Headed Woman (1932); When a Feller Needs a Friend (1932); Tarzan the Ape Man (1932); Are You Listening? (1932); The Cuban Love Song (1931); Sporting Blood (1931); Son of India (1931); The Squaw Man (1931); En cada puerto un amor (1931); Men Call It Love (1931); The Prodigal (1931); Passion Flower (1930); Madam Satan (1930); This Mad World (1930); Hello Sister (1930); South Sea Rose (1929); Frozen Justice (1929); The Far Call (1929); Trent's Last Case (1929); The Case of Lena Smith (1929); Three Week Ends (1928); The Docks of New York (1928); The Sawdust Paradise (1928); The Dragnet (1928); Abie's Irish Rose (1928); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928); Open Range (1927); A Gentleman of Paris (1927); Service for Ladies (1927); Rough House Rosie (1927); Evening Clothes (1927); Getting Gertie's Garter (1927); Man Bait (1927); Jim the Conqueror (1926); For Wives Only (1926); Almost a Lady (1926); Up in Mabel's Room (1926); Infatuation (1925); Classified (1925); The Street of Forgotten Men (1925); The Little French Girl (1925); A Man Must Live (1925); Too Many Kisses (1925); Manhattan (1924); The Story Without a Name (1924); Manhandled (1924); A Society Scandal (1924); Big Brother (1923); Zaza (1923); Lawful Larceny (1923); The Glimpses of the Moon (1923); Quicksands (1923); Dark Secrets (1923); Garrison's Finish (1923); For the Defense (1922); Through a Glass Window (1922); The Cradle (1922); A Homespun Vamp (1922); A Virginia Courtship (1921); Everything for Sale (1921); Buried Treasure (1921); For Those We Love (1921); Heliotrope (1920); Polly of the Storm Country (1920); The Cinema Murder (1919); The American Consul (1917); Panthea (1917); The Victoria Cross (1916); Oliver Twist (1916); The Honorable Friend (1916); David Harum (1915).

Born on this day – Joseph H. Lewis:

 

Joseph H. Lewis


Director

April 6, 1907 – August 30, 2000

Credits:

$1000 a Minute (1935); 7th Cavalry (1956); A Lady Without Passport (1950); A Lawless Street (1955); A Man Called Shenandoah (1965–1966); Alcoa Theatre (1959); American Cinema (1995); Arizona Cyclone (1941); As Simple as That: Joseph H. Lewis in Hollywood (1987); Bat Men of Africa (1966); Beautiful Dreamer (1935); Behind the Green Lights (1935); Blazing Six Shooters (1940); Bombs Over Burma (1942); Bonanza (1963); Border Wolves (1938); Boss of Hangtown Mesa (1942); Boys of the City (1940); Branded (1965); Comin' 'Round the Mountain (1936); Confidential (1935); Courage of the West (1937); Criminals Within (1941); Cry of the Hunted (1953); Dancing Feet (1936); Daniel Boone (1964); Darkest Africa (1936); Death on Credit (1980); Desperate Search (1952); Femme Fatales (2012); Gun Crazy (1950); Gunsmoke (1965); Harmony Lane (1935); Hearts in Bondage (1936); Hitch Hike Lady (1935); Invisible Ghost (1941); King of the Pecos (1936); Ladies Crave Excitement (1935); Laughing Irish Eyes (1936); Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997); Man on a Bus (1955); Melody Trail (1935); Minstrel Man (1944); My Name Is Julia Ross (1945); Navy Spy (1937); One Frightened Night (1935); Pride of the Bowery (1940); Red River Valley (1936); Retreat, Hell! (1952); Sagebrush Troubadour (1935); Secrets of a Co-Ed (1942); Sharad of Atlantis (1966); So Dark the Night (1946); Sodankylä Forever (2010); Streamline Express (1935); Terror in a Texas Town (1958); Texas Stagecoach (1940); That Gang of Mine (1940); The Adventures of Rex and Rinty (1935); The Big Combo (1955); The Big Valley (1965–1966); The Detectives (1959); The Devil on Horseback (1936); The Dick Powell Theatre (1962); The Falcon in San Francisco (1945); The Fat Man: The Thirty-Two Friends of Gina Lardelli (1959); The Fighting Marines (1935); The Girl from Mandalay (1936); The Gold Racket (1937); The Halliday Brand (1957); The Harvester (1936); The Headline Woman (1935); The House of a Thousand Candles (1936); The Investigators (1961); The Jolson Story (1946); The Last Stand (1938); The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936); The Leavenworth Case (1936); The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942); The Man from Tumbleweeds (1940); The Miracle Rider (1935); The Return of Jimmy Valentine (1936); The Return of October (1948); The Return of Wild Bill (1940); The Rifleman (1958–1963); The Silver Bullet (1942); The Singing Cowboy (1936); The Singing Outlaw (1937); The Singing Vagabond (1935); The Spy Ring (1938); The Story of Hollywood (1988); The Swordsman (1948); The Undercover Man (1949); Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935); Two-Fisted Rangers (1939); Undersea Kingdom (1936); Waterfront Lady (1935); Zane Grey Theatre (1961).

Born on this day – Joi Lansing:


Joi Lansing


Actress

April 6, 1929 – August 7, 1972

Credits:
Adventures of Superman (1958); Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1955); Bat Masterson (1959); Bigfoot (1970); Blondie's Secret (1948); But Not for Me (1959); Cavalcade of America (1956); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); Climax! (1957); Colgate Theatre (1958); Conflict (1956); Damon Runyon Theater (1955); December Bride (1955–1957); Easter Parade (1948); F.B.I. Girl (1951); Finger Man (1955); Four Star Playhouse (1954–1955); Gang Busters (1952); General Electric Theater (1954–1959); George Jessel's Here Come the Stars (1968); Glory Alley (1952); Gypsy (1965); Here's Hollywood (1960); Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967); A Hole in the Head (1959); Hot Cars (1956); Hot Shots (1956); I Led 3 Lives (1954); I Love Lucy (1956); In the Good Old Summertime (1949); Inside Magoo (1960); It Started with a Kiss (1959); It's a Dog's Life (1955); It's a Great Life (1955–1956); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1956); Joi Lansing: The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else (1965); Joi Lansing: The Silencer (1964); Julia Misbehaves (1948); Key to the City (1950); Klondike (1960–1961); Linda, Be Good (1947); Lux Playhouse (1959); Markham (1959); Marriage on the Rocks (1965); Maverick (1958); Meet Corliss Archer (1954); Mike Hammer (1958); Movietown USA (1949–1950); Mr. Lucky (1960); Neptune's Daughter (1949); Noah's Ark (1956); On the Riviera (1951); Perry Mason (1957); Petticoat Junction (1968); Pier 23 (1951); Playhouse 90 (1957); Queen of Outer Space (1958); Racket Squad (1952); Rawhide (1963); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1959); Sadie and Sally (1948); Schlitz Playhouse (1955); Sea Hunt (1959); Singin' in the Rain (1952); So This Is Hollywood (1955); So You Think the Grass Is Greener (1956); So You Want to Be a Policeman (1955); So You Want to Be a V.P. (1955); So You Want to Go to a Night Club (1954); So You're Taking in a Roomer (1954); Son of Sinbad (1955); State Trooper (1958); Studio 57 (1958); Sugarfoot (1958); Super Cue Men (1949); T.V. of Tomorrow (1953); Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949); Terror at Midnight (1956); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1956–1963); The Atomic Submarine (1959); The Beverly Hillbillies (1963–1968); The Bob Cummings Show (1955–1959); The Bob Hope Show (1960–1962); The Brave One (1956); The Counterfeiters (1948); The Danny Thomas Show (1957); The Dennis O'Keefe Show (1960); The Dennis Wholey Show (1969); The Donald O'Connor Show (1969); The Ford Television Theatre (1955); The Frank Sinatra Show (1958); The French Line (1953); The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1957); The Girl from Jones Beach (1949); The Governor & J.J. (1970); The House of Tomorrow (1949); The Jack Benny Program (1959); The Joey Bishop Show (1963–1967); The Lone Wolf (1954); The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1959); The Merry Widow (1952); The Merv Griffin Show (1965); The Mike Douglas Show (1964–1968); The Mothers-In-Law (1969); The People's Choice (1955–1957); The Star and the Story (1956); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1967); The Untouchables (1960); The Web of Love (1966); This Man Dawson (1960); Touch of Evil (1958); Two Tickets to Broadway (1951); Warner Brothers Presents (1956); When a Girl's Beautiful (1947); Where's Raymond? (1954); Who Was That Lady? (1960); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1953).

Born on this day – André Previn:

André Previn


Composer

Pianist

Conductor

April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019


On this day in movie history - The Scarf (1951)


The Scarf


directed and written by Ewald André Dupont, Arthur St. Claire and Lawrence Taylor,

based on a story by Isadore Goldsmith and E.A. Rolfe,

was released in the United States on April 6, 1951.

Music by Herschel Burke Gilbert.


Cast:
John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, James Barton, Emlyn Williams, Lloyd Gough, Basil Ruysdael, David Bauer, Harry Shannon, Celia Lovsky, David McMahon, Chubby Johnson, Frank Jenks, Emmett Lynn, Dick Wessel, Frank Jaquet, Iris Adrian.

On this day in movie history - One Girl’s Confession (1953)


One Girl’s Confession


directed and written by Hugo Haas,

was released in the United States on April 6, 1953.

Music by Václav Divina.


Cast:
Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, Glenn Langan, Helene Stanton, Anthony Jochim, Burt Mustin, Leonid Snegoff, James Nusser, Russ Conway, Mara Lea, Gayne Whitman, Leo Mostovoy, Martha Wentworth, Roy Engel, Jan Englund, Joseph Mell, Frank Mills.

On this day in movie history - China Lake (1983)


China Lake


directed and written by Robert Harmon,

based on a story by Robert Harmon and Beth Tate,

was released in the United States on April 6, 1983.

Music by David Gibney.

Cast:
Charles Napier, William Sanderson, Mickey Jones, Gilmer McCormick, Lindsey Fields, James Luisi, Ed Brodow, Michael Ray Lloyd, Jeanne Jarvis, Enoch Anderson, Stephen Barns, David Breaux, William Calkins, Harley Corber, John Cuellar, William Fair, Michel François, Herman Graham Jr., Herbert Johnson, Charlie-Olisa Kaine, Kenneth Martin, Willie Martinez, William Meadows, Charles Meshack, Cameron Moss, Mario Peluso, Van Pettigrew, Charlie Pryor, Jeff Reed, Ringo Rigby, Ed Stanton, Jack Tanner, Frank Tinelli, Walter Vierra, John Woodson, Rocky Yost, Jeff Artis, Dan Bourguignon, Diane Frank, Doreece Hadorn, Claudia Harrington, Michael Harrison, Roger Jackson, Olu Okekante, Chuck Waltz.

On this day in movie history - Impulse (1990)


Impulse


directed by Sondra Locke,

written by Leigh Chapman,

based on a story by John DeMarco,

was released in the United States on April 6, 1990.

Music by Michel Colombier.

Cast:
Theresa Russell, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Alan Rosenberg, Nicholas Mele, Eli Danker, Charles McCaughan, Lynne Thigpen, Shawn Elliott, Angelo Tiffe, Christopher Lawford, Nick Savage, Dan Bell, Tom Dahlgren, Daniel Quinn, David L. Crowley, Mark Rolston, Russell Curry, Pete Antico, Karl Anthony Smith, Paul Acerno, Maria Rangel, Don Ruffin, Cliff McLaughlin, Paul A. Calabria, Valente Rodriguez, Ronald L. Colby, Robert Phalen, Douglas Rowe, Wendy Gordon, Jerry Dunphy, Jerry Martinez, Peder Melhuse, Sorin Serene Pricopie, Thomas Rosales Jr., Elaine Kagan, Michael McCleery, James Edgcomb, J. Michael Flynn.