Thursday, May 14, 2026

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.

Albert Einstein, on imagination:

 
Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein.


Born on this day – Albert Robida:

 

Albert Robida


Writer

Illustrator

Etcher

Lithographer

Caricaturist

May 14, 1848 – October 11, 1926

Credits:

Written work:

1430, les assiégés de Compiègne; Contes pour les bibliophiles, with Octave Uzanne; La Bête au bois dormant; La Bretagne (1900); La Fin des Livres, with Octave Uzanne; La Grande Mascarade Parisienne; La Guerre au vingtième siècle (1887); La Guerre au vingtième siècle (1887); La Part du hazard; La Sortie de l'opéra en l'an 2000 (1902); La Touraine (1892); La Vieille France series; Le 19e siècle; Le Vingtième Siècle (1883); Le Vingtième Siècle (1883); Le Vingtième Siècle / La vie électrique (1890); Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique (1890); Le Voyage de M. Dumollet; Le Voyage de M. Dumollet; Les Escholiers du temps jadis; Les Vieilles Villes d'Espagne, notes et souvenirs; Les Vieilles Villes d'Italie: notes et souvenirs; Les Vieilles Villes d'Italie: notes et souvenirs; L'horloge des siècles / The Clock of the Centuries (1902); L'Île de Lutèce: enlaidissements et embellissements de la Cité; L'Ingénieur von Satanas (1919); Normandie (1890); Paris de siècle en siècle; le cœur de Paris, splendeurs et souvenir; Paris, Splendeurs et Souvenirs (1992); Provence, Paris, À la Librairie illustrée (1893); Un caricaturiste prophète. La guerre telle qu'elle est; Un chalet dans les airs / Chalet in the Sky; Voyage de fiançailles au XXe siècle; Voyages très extraordinaires de Saturnin Farandoul (1879).

Movies and television:

Saturnino Farandola (1977); The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola (1913).

Born on this day – Maria Michi:

 

Maria Michi


Actress

May 14, 1921 – April 7, 1980

Credits:

Appuntamento a Piazza di Spagna (1947); Brothers Blue (1973); Dedicato a un medico (1974); Down the Ancient Stairs (1975); Fatalità (1947); I problemi di Don Isidro (1978); Irene, Irene (1975); L'altra (1947); Last Tango in Paris (1972); Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis (1973); Legge di guerra (1961); Madam Kitty (1976); Mont-Dragon (1970); Paisan (1946); Redneck (1973); Rome, Open City (1945); Shamed (1947); The Breach (1970); The Charterhouse of Parma (1948); The Lady of Monza (1969); What Have You Done to Solange? (1972).

Born on this day – Loleh Bellon:

 

Loleh Bellon


Actress

Writer

Narrator

May 14, 1925 – May 22, 1999

Credits:

À l'assaut du ciel (1966); As Senhoras das Quintas Feiras (1988); Au cinéma ce soir (1974); Avis de recherche (1989); Casque d'Or (1952); Chili-Impressions (1978); Compression (2016); Crime et châtiment (1955); Énigmes de l'histoire (1957); Eugène Sue (1974); Gaslight (1959); Gustave Moreau (1961); Il faut que je tue Monsieur Rumann (1966); Italiques (1973); La comtesse de Tende (1964); La fabrique du roi (1965); La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu (1984); La nuit des Molières (1988); La plaie et le couteau, Charles Baudelaire (1967); La vie de château (1985); L'art et les hommes (1959–1963); Le bel âge (1960); Le Cabinet des estampes (1955); Le gardian (1946); Le jet d'eau (1973); Le jeu de l'amour et de la mort (1961); Le mystère Barton (1949); Le parfum de la dame en noir (1949); Le point du jour (1949); Le prix (1975); Le thé sous les cyprès (1971); Le tribunal de l'impossible (1970); L'éloignement (1988); L'éloignement (2009); Les ailes de la colombe (1981); Les beaux quartiers (1983); Les cinq dernières minutes (1959); Les enfants du désordre (1989); Les heures chaudes de Montparnasse (1963); Les nouvelles aventures de Vidocq (1971); Les Nuits de France Culture (2023); Midi-Première (1978–1979); My Old Lady (2014); Nevermore, Forever (1976); Paris Saint-Lazare (1982); Philippe (1958); Présence du passé (1966); Quatre-vingt-treize (1962); Romulus le grand (1971); Siegfried (1963); Skipper Next to God (1951); Somewhere, Someone (1972); Un matin comme les autres (1956); Une question d'assurance (1960); Une seconde d'éternité (1977); Variations (1967).

Born on this day – Kay Elliot:

 

Kay Elliot


Actress

Producer

May 14, 1929 – December 3, 1982

Credits:
Be A Famous Figure (1956); Bewitched (1969–1970); Death Valley Days (1969); Eight Is Enough (1978); Gas Pump Girls (1979); General Hospital (1980); Gomer Pyle: USMC (1967); Here’s Lucy (1968); New Figures of 1957 (1956); New York Close-Up (1951–1952); Plaza Suite (1971); Star Trek / episode entitled: I, Mudd, originally aired November 3 (1967); The Magical World of Disney (1980); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Red Skelton Hour (1968–1969); The Severed Arm (1973); Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968).

Born on this day – Franca Bettoia:


Franca Bettoia


Actress

May 14, 1936 – September 13, 2024

Credits:
Alfonso Sansone produttore per caso (2014); Attack of the Normans (1962); Cavalcata selvaggia (1960); Day by Day, Desperately (1961); Desert Warrior (1957); Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974); Duel of Champions (1961); El asalto al castillo de la Moncloa (1978); Il fischio al naso (1967); Kolossal - i magnifici Macisti (1977); La main chaude (1960); La pisana (1960); La trovatella di Pompei (1958); Le dialogue des Carmélites (1960); Le notti dei Teddy Boys (1959); Man of Straw (1958); Sandokan alla riscossa (1964); Sandokan contro il leopardo di Sarawak (1964); Tant d'amour perdu (1958); Teste rasate (1993); The Dam on the Yellow River (1960); The Last Man on Earth (1964); The Lion of St. Mark (1963); The Man with a Cigar in His Mouth (1997); Ultimatum alla vita (1962); Un palco all'opera (1955); Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? (1968).