Sunday, September 27, 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.

Iris Murdoch, on literature:

 
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature,
since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
– Iris Murdoch.


Born on this day – Olive Tell:


Olive Tell


Actress

September 27, 1894 – June 8, 1951

Credits:

A Woman's Business (1920); Baby, Take a Bow (1934); Brilliant Marriage (1936); Chickie (1925); Clothes (1920); Cock o' the Walk (1930); Delicious (1931); Devotion (1931); Easy to Take (1936); False Faces (1932); Four Hours to Kill! (1935); Good Medicine (1929); Hearts in Exile (1929); Her Sister (1917); In His Steps (1936); Ladies' Man (1931); Lawful Larceny (1930); Love Without Question (1920); National Red Cross Pageant (1917); Polo Joe (1936); Private Scandal (1934); Sailors' Wives (1928); Secret Strings (1918); Shanghai (1935); Slaves of Beauty (1927); Soft Living (1928); Strictly Personal (1933); Summer Bachelors (1926); Ten Cents a Dance (1931); The Girl and the Judge (1918); The Prince of Tempters (1926); The Right of Way (1930); The Right of Way (1930); The Scarlet Empress (1934); The Silent Master (1917); The Trap (1919); The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929); The Unforseen (1917); The Very Idea (1929); The Witching Hour (1934); The Wrong Woman (1920); To Hell with the Kaiser! (1918); Under Southern Stars (1937); Wings of Pride (1920); Woman Hungry (1931); Womanhandled (1925); Worlds Apart (1921); Yours for the Asking (1936); Zaza (1938).

Born on this day – Jim Thompson:


Jim Thompson


Writer

September 27, 1906 – April 7, 1977

Credits:

A Hell Of A Woman (1954); A Swell-Looking Babe (1954); After Dark, My Sweet (1955); Bad Boy (1953); Child Of Rage (1972); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1988); Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950 (1997); Cropper's Cabin (1952); Fireworks (1988); Hard-boiled (1995); Heed The Thunder (1946); Ironside (1967); King Blood (1973); More Hardcore: 3 Novels (1987); Murder Plus (1992); Nothing But A Man (1970); Nothing More Than Murder (1949); Now and On Earth (1942); Pop. 1280 (1964); Pulp Frictions (1996); Recoil (1953); Roughneck (1954); Savage Night (1953); South Of Heaven (1967); Texas By The Tail (1965); The Alcoholics (1953); The Best American Noir of the Century (2010); The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction (1987); The Criminal (1953); The Getaway (1959); The Golden Gizmo (1954); The Grifters (1963); The Jim Thompson Omnibus (1995); The Killer Inside Me (1952); The Kill-Off (1957); The Nothing Man (1954); The Rip-Off (1989); The Second Jim Thompson Omnibus (1997); The Transgressors (1961); The Undefeated (1969); Unusual Suspects (1996); Wild Town (1957).

Movies and television:

After Dark, My Sweet (1990); Cain's Hundred (1961); Clean Slate (1981); Convoy (1965); Dr. Kildare (1965); Fallen Angels (1993); Farewell, My Lovely (1975); Hit Me (1996); Mackenzie's Raiders (1958–1959); Paths of Glory (1957); Pop. 1280 (2024); Serie Noire (1979); The Getaway (1972 / 1994); The Grifters (1990); The Killer Inside Me (1976 / 2010); The Killing (1956); The Kill-Off (1989); This World, Then the Fireworks (1997); Trapped (2014).

Born on this day – William Conrad:


William Conrad


Actor

Producer

Director

September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994

Credits:

-30- (1959); 5 Against the House (1955); 77 Sunset Strip (1963); Acapulco (1961); Any Number Can Play (1949); Arch of Triumph (1948); Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975); Barnaby Jones (1973); Bat Masterson (1958); Battle of the Bulge (1965); Battles: The Murder That Wouldn't Die (1980); Body and Soul (1947); Bold Venture (1959); Brainstorm (1965); Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979); Cannon (1971); Chamber of Horrors (1966); Chisum (1970); Countdown (1967); Cry Danger (1951); Cry of the Hunted (1953); D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill (1971); Dial 1119 (1950); East Side, West Side (1949); Escape (1950); F Troop (1965); First to Fight (1967); Four Faces West (1948); G.E. True (1962); Geronimo (1962); Gorath (1962); Gunsmoke (1963); Have Gun - Will Travel (1962); Highway Patrol (1959); Hoppity Hooper (1965); Hotel (1986); How the West Was Won (1976); Hudson Hawk (1991); In Like Flynn (1985); It Takes a Thief (1970); Jake and the Fatman (1987); Joan of Arc (1948); Johnny Concho (1956); Keefer (1978); Keep America Beautiful: The Crying Indian (1971); Killing Cars (1986); King of Diamonds (1961); Klondike (1960); Lock Up (1960); Lone Star (1952); Mackenzie's Raiders (1959); Manimal (1983); Matlock (1986); Men Into Space (1960); Moonshine County Express (1977); Motor Scouts (1975); Murder, She Wrote (1984); My Blood Runs Cold (1965); Naked City (1961); Nero Wolfe (1981); Night Cries (1978); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971); One Way Street (1950); Pillow to Post (1945); Police Squad! (1982); Ripcord (1961); Route 66 (1961); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1972); Saints and Sinners (1962); Shocktrauma (1982); Side Show (1981); Sorry, Wrong Number (1948); Storefront Lawyers (1970); Tales of the Unexpected (1977); Target (1958); Target: The Corruptors (1961); Temple Houston (1963); Tension (1949); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Aquanauts (1961); The Best of Mr. Peabody & Sherman (1959); The Bob Mathias Story (1954); The Brady Kids (1972); The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970); The Bullwinkle Show (1959); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1960); The City (1977); The Conqueror (1956); The Cremation of Sam McGee: A Poem by Robert W. Service (1982); The Desert Song (1953); The Dudley Do-Right Show (1959); The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974); The Fall Guy (1984); The Force of Evil (1977); The Fugitive (1963); The High Chaparral (1970); The Highwayman (1987); The Killers (1946); The Man and the Challenge (1959); The Man from Galveston (1963); The Mikado (1982); The Milkman (1950); The Naked Jungle (1954); The Name of the Game (1969); The New Adventures of the Lone Ranger (1980); The Racket (1951); The Rebels (1979); The Return of Frank Cannon (1980); The Return of the King (1980); The Ride Back (1957); The Rifleman (1959); The Rough Riders (1958); The Sword of Monte Cristo (1951); This Man Dawson (1959); To the Victor (1948); Tombstone Territory (1959); Trauma Center (1983); Turnover Smith (1980); Two on a Guillotine (1965); Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo (1986); Zero Hour! (1957).

Born on this day – Arthur Penn:


Arthur Penn


Director

Producer

September 27, 1922 – September 28, 2010

Credits:

100 Centre Street (2001); Alice's Restaurant (1969); Bonnie and Clyde (1967); Dead of Winter (1987); Flesh and Blood (1968); Four Friends (1981); Goodyear Television Playhouse (1953); Hungarian Emergency Relief Organization Christmas Day Special (1956); Inside (1996); Justice (1954); Kraft Mystery Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1953–1955); Little Big Man (1970); Lumière and Company (1995); Mickey One (1965); Night Moves (1975); Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989); Playhouse 90 (1957); Playwrights '56 (1955); Producers' Showcase (1954); Studio One (1956); Target (1985); The Chase (1966); The Gulf Playhouse (1953); The Left Handed Gun (1958); The Miracle Worker (1962); The Missouri Breaks (1976); The Portrait (1993); Visions of Eight (1973).

Born on this day – Roger C. Carmel:


Roger C. Carmel


Actor

September 27, 1932 – November 11, 1986

Credits:
A House Is Not a Home (1964); Act One (1963); Adventures of the Gummi Bears (1986); All in the Family (1977); Alvarez Kelly (1966); Anatomy of a Seduction (1979); Anna and the King (1972); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1961–1962); B.J. and the Bear (1979); Banacek (1972); Batman (1967); Batmania from Comics to Screen (1989); Blue Light (1966); Breezy (1973); Car 54, Where Are You? (1962); CBS Storybreak (1987); Chico and the Man (1975); Diff'rent Strokes (1982); DuckTales (1987); East Side / West Side (1963); Everglades! (1962); Fitz and Bones (1981); Gambit (1966); Get Christie Love! (1975); Getting Together (1971); Goodbye Charlie (1964); Great Ghost Tales (1961); Hardly Working (1980); Hart to Hart (1980); Hawaii Five-O (1971–1972); Hogan's Heroes (1965); I Spy (1965–1967); Insight (1969); Ironside (1971); It Takes a Thief (1968); It Takes Two (1969–1970); It's Your Bet (1970–1971); Kaye Ballard - The Show Goes On (2019); Lamp Unto My Feet (1962); Laverne & Shirley (1980); Look Up and Live (1961); Marathon Bar: Captain Quick (1974); McCloud (1975); McMillan & Wife (1973); My Brother the Angel (1966); My Dog, the Thief (1969); My Living Doll (1964–1965); Myra Breckinridge (1970); Naked City (1960–1963); North by Northwest (1959); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1968); Premiere (1968); Route 66 (1960–1964); Skullduggery (1970); Snorks (1985); Stage Struck (1958); Star Trek (1966–1967); Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973); Stump the Stars (1970); Switch (1975); Terror at Alcatraz (1982); That's Life (1979); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Art of Love (1965); The Defenders (1961); The Dick Van Dyke Show (1964); The Doris Day Show (1972); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Glo Friends (1986); The Greatest Show on Earth (1963); The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977); The High Chaparral (1971); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1968); The Invisible Man (1975); The Magical World of Disney (1969); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–1965); The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1980); The Mothers-In-Law (1967–1968); The Munsters (1965); The New Adventures of Jonny Quest (1986–1987); The Patty Duke Show (1964); The Paul Lynde Show (1973); The Phyllis Diller Show (1966); The San Pedro Beach Bums (1977); The Silencers (1966); The Smurfs (1986); The Telephone Book (1971); The Transformers (1985–1986); The Transformers: The Movie (1986); The Venetian Affair (1966); Three's Company (1979); Thunder and Lightning (1977); Today (1967); Transformers: Five Faces of Darkness (1986); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1965).