Colors, Critters, Cats, and my Journey with MS

Tuesday, April 21, 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.

Hilma Wolitzer, on writing:

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation, but not really a lonely one.

The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.
- Hilma Wolitzer.

Archer in Jeopardy

by Ross Macdonald.

Anthology.
Published by by Alfred A. Knof.
Published 1979.
Hardcover.

ISBN 13: 9780394508047
ISBN 10: 0394508041
ASIN: 0394508041

Description:

Brings together three of the acclaimed mystery writer's Lew Archer novels – The Doomsters, The Zebra-Striped Hearse, & The Instant Enemy – three winners with the incomparable Macdonald touch.

Born on this day – Charlotte Brontë:

Charlotte Brontë

Writer

April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855

Credits:

Books:

Emma (1860); Great Short Stories by English and Irish Women (2007); Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection (2023); Jane Eyre (1847); Legends of Angria (1933); Mina Laury (1838); My Angria And The Angrians (1830); Selected Letters (2007); Shirley (1849); Shirley, Vol. 1 of 3: A Tale (2018); Shirley, Vol. 2 of 3: A Tale (2018); Stancliffe's Hotel (2003); Tales of Angria (1839); Tales of the Islanders (1830); The Anthology of Love and Romance (1994); The Complete Poems of Charlotte Bronte (1923); The Foundling (1830); The Green Dwarf (1830); The Professor (1857); The Secret & Lily Hart (1830); The Secret (2006); The Spell (1830); Villette (1853); Women Who Wrote (2020); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Movies and television:

Acting for a Cause (2020); Ardiente secreto (1978); Die Waise (1919); Die Waise von Lowood (1926); El secreto (1963); Grande Teatro Tupi (1959); Guiding Light (1981); I Walked with a Zombie (1943); Jana Eyrová (1972); Jane Eyre (1910); Jane Eyre (1914); Jane Eyre (1915); Jane Eyre (1921); Jane Eyre (1934); Jane Eyre (1943); Jane Eyre (1946); Jane Eyre (1948); Jane Eyre (1955); Jane Eyre (1956); Jane Eyre (1957); Jane Eyre (1958); Jane Eyre (1961); Jane Eyre (1963); Jane Eyre (1968); Jane Eyre (1970); Jane Eyre (1973); Jane Eyre (1983); Jane Eyre (1996); Jane Eyre (1997); Jane Eyre (2006); Jane Eyre (2011); Kraft Theatre (1951); Le memorie di una istitutrice (1917); Matinee Theatre (1957); Mei gu (1956); Monodrama Theater (1953); National Theatre Live: Jane Eyre (2015); Novela (1965–1972); Recordarás mi nombre (1976); Sangdil (1952); Sargasso: A Caribbean Love Story (1991); Shirley (1922); Studio One (1949–1952); Teatre Lliure: Jane Eyre: una autobiografia (2020); The Autobiography of Jane Eyre (2013); The Castle of Thornfield (1915); The Mad Lady of Chester (1910); The Man I Love (1962); Theatre Parade (1937); TV de Vanguarda (1962); Villette (1957); Villette (1970); Wide Sargasso Sea (1993); Wide Sargasso Sea (2006); Woman and Wife (1918).

Born on this day – Josh Billings:

Josh Billings

Writer

April 21, 1818 – October 14, 1885

Born on this day – Eve Arnold:

Eve Arnold

Photographer

Journalist

April 21, 1912 – January 4, 2012

Credits:

Photographs:

Fashion Show, behind the scenes (1950); Horse Training for the Militia in Inner Mongolia (1979); Jacqueline Kennedy arranging flowers with daughter Caroline (1961); Marilyn Monroe (1960).

Books:

All About Eve (2012); All in a Day’s Work (1989); Eve Arnold’s People (2010); Film Journal (2002); Flashback: The 50s (1978); Handbook (2005); In America (1983); In China (1980); In Retrospect (1995); Marilyn Monroe (2005); Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation (1987); The Great British (1991); The Making of the White Nights (1985); The Unretouched Woman (1976).