My Yesterday in Pictures for, Nov 15, 2019 😊

A Cropping of Fall Foliage Austin Nov’19 Ā©Felipe Adan Lerma
A Cropping of Fall Foliage Austin Nov’19 Ā©Felipe Adan Lerma

My Yesterday in Pictures Format

I’ve simply built my daily walking & painting up to the point where I need the time for these two vital parts of keeping me healthy and/or sane, lol!

Plus, instead of having to work images into the My Day Ahead series posts, this new series will enable me to keep those as pure text, and supplement with images from a variety of possibilities here. It’s an experiment of course, so we’ll see 😊

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Morning Woke With Sunshine in its Eyes ā¤ļø
What a welcome sight!

Daybreak Sunshine Austin Nov’19 Ā©Felipe Adan Lerma
Daybreak Sunshine Austin Nov’19 Ā©Felipe Adan Lerma

Even the art room got a good start today, lit my maybe-done maybe-still-needs-work painting, In the Light – very fitting, lol! I do think it’s either done or needs to dry and become a test case for trying out a varnish coat later.

Anyone out there w/stories of their own varnishing experiments? Let us know in the comments! 😊

Morning Sun in My Art Room Nov’19 Ā©Felipe Adan Lerma
Morning Sun in My Art Room Nov’19 Ā©Felipe Adan Lerma

Two Differing Painting Re-evaluations
Two more paintings I wanted to re-evaluate in terms of their ā€œfinishedā€ status. Kinda understandable for Fog Along Lady Bird Lake below, since it’s practically a Notan with some light color glazing, and I painted in this spring (ie, not that long ago.) No decision re what to do about this one yet.

Fog Along Lady Bird Lake ©Felipe Adan Lerma
Fog Along Lady Bird Lake ©Felipe Adan Lerma

Now, with Barton Springs Morning Fog Lifting, circa 2005, I have multiple layers of problems (literally) deciding. In very limited just-right light, it looks the way I want it to. In light like below, it doesn’t. Do I need to enhance the value differences? Or try a varnish? Would it’s highly textured surface be a destructive problem (vs just a challenge?) My research says use a gloss of high quality that can be removed. I’ll try Gamblin Gamvar first then.

Barton Springs Morning Fog Lifting circa 2005 ©Felipe Adan Lerma
Barton Springs Morning Fog Lifting circa 2005 ©Felipe Adan Lerma

Walking With Sheila in the Sun 😊
What a difference a day makes, or at least a day like today after 1/2 a week of very un-Austin weather, lol! We ended up relaxing in those orange chairs, soaking up the sun, in our coats, true! ā˜ŗļø The soft warmth of the sun on my face reminded me of my youth, growing up in Houston, going to Galveston, literally soaking up the sun when the ozone and particulate matter in our air were very different. Also true. I’ve also read we (humanity) can reverse much of our problems massively replanting our forests (among other things). Don’t know how true. But I do like trees šŸ’• 😊

November Sunshine on the Pool ©Felipe Adan Lerma
November Sunshine on the Pool ©Felipe Adan Lerma

Though there have been years (among the decades) where Austin’s gotten good fall foliage, spotty stuff like this, the light sparkling the reds and yellow like sparklers in daylight, is more the thing here in Central Texas. And, it beats the 106 degree heat of summer 😊

A Cropping of Fall Foliage Austin Nov’19 Ā©Felipe Adan Lerma
A Cropping of Fall Foliage Austin Nov’19 Ā©Felipe Adan Lerma
Fall Foliage Austin Nov’19 Ā©Felipe Adan Lerma
Fall Foliage Austin Nov’19 Ā©Felipe Adan Lerma

And this is Cham, short for champagne according to his owner – who also gave Cham his rainbow colored tail 😊 He’s one of several four legged friends we sometimes see along our walks šŸ’•

Cham the Rainbow Tail Dog
Cham the Rainbow Tail Dog

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My Day Ahead series posts elaborate an both my day ahead & the day past, my yesterday 

My Day Ahead for Saturday, Nov 16th, posts well after this post, and may carry a bit more commentary about the images above. It’ll automatically show up via the link above when posted – thanks everyone!

Adan

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3 comments

  1. Love seeing all your Fall colors, we don’t have many color changing leaves around us, mostly palm trees, lol! I have had some bad experiences with varnishing, ruined more than one painting before learning! I used to brush on the varnish, but it has smeared when I’ve used different paints and inks on my mixed media pieces. I usually use a spray varnish now, Liquitex Gloss or semi gloss is my favorite product so far!

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