My Yesterday in Pictures for, Dec 01, 2019 😊

Central Market Squash 12.01.19 ©Felipe Adan Lerma
Central Market Squash 12.01.19 ©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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At Central Market

Central Market Squash 12.01.19 ©Felipe Adan Lerma
Central Market Squash 12.01.19 ©Felipe Adan Lerma

Wish I’d taken a shot of the display of carnival squash before they’d been sold, lol! But there was still a really nice variety Sunday morning. I got one of the last of the carnival variety though! Maybe more next week 😊

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Experimenting with Acrylic Paints

Floating Blooms Acrylic Experiment, Adding Light/Shadow Notan on Bloom - Detail Shot 12.01.19 ©Felipe Adan Lerma
Floating Blooms Acrylic Experiment, Adding Light/Shadow Notan on Bloom – Detail Shot 12.01.19 Ā©Felipe Adan Lerma

Continuing my acrylic experimental painting (previous stages chronicled in recent My Yesterday in Pictures posts), I took one of the blooms in basic lay-in of being in light (vs the shadowed background) and micro-sized my shadow-light lay-in to the upper right bloom. It’s still very basic, but I’m pleased with the way I can shade (or lighten) an area w/acrylic, just simply touch-coloring over the dried previous color.

Luckily, my more textured initial lay-in shaping of the blooms using marble dust in my paint has left wonderful ridges of guidelines for my edges!

Floating Blooms Acrylic Experiment, Adding Light/Shadow Notan on Bloom - Finish for the day 12.01.19 ©Felipe Adan Lerma
Floating Blooms Acrylic Experiment, Adding Light/Shadow Notan on Bloom – Finish for the day 12.01.19 Ā©Felipe Adan Lerma

Blending vs using oils, for me anyway, is totally different w/acrylic, as I can ā€œmixā€ a wet color into a dry one, but, I can stumble it, which I like anyway for it’s effect of uneven dappled-like light.

Here again, my Fredrix marble dust paint mixture for the center of the blooms really helped me in my color-dabbing to simulate the real flower’s texture.

It’ll be interesting too — way later on it seems, the speed I’m developing this painting, lol! — to see how varnish will bring it the color nuances and sense of depth. I’ll definitely be using my recently purchased oil/acrylic-use Gambling Gamvar if I do varnish it ā€˜cause it’s removable! Didn’t think that’d even be important to me til now, lol!

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Walking with Max

Self Shadow Silhouette with Max 12.01.19 ©Felipe Adan Lerma
Self Shadow Silhouette with Max 12.01.19 ©Felipe Adan Lerma

Max & family were back from a visit to the other grandparents and when we went by to say hello, Sheila & I’d just eaten so, yes, I needed to walk, lol! Max was raring to join me, probably cause it was such a gorgeous 1st day of December! It reminded me (I told my Vermont born wife) of a perfect gentle summer day back in her home state. That gave her a good laugh 😊 She, way more than me, is aware how brutal their weather is there already, even compared to our unusually cold winter start here in Central Texas!

Max 12.01.19 ©Felipe Adan Lerma
Max 12.01.19 ©Felipe Adan Lerma

Even stopping for a rest, a six year old – if not konked out tired & asleep šŸ˜‚ – little ones are go go go! ā¤ļø

ps 1 – I did look up ā€œkonked out vs conked outā€ & looks like they’re both acceptable, sorta 😊 Also found an interesting post re the term’s origins! Fun stuff!

ps 2 – my afternoon walk w/Max was instrumental in my reaching 7500+ steps Sunday 1st time in a few days. I initially blamed the weather for the lapse, then the holidays, then my schedule of things to do (combo of desired & necessary), and finally settled on the need for recovery; the latter probably being the actual determining reason ā˜ŗļø

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Evening Walk

Evening Walk View 12.01.19 ©Felipe Adan Lerma
Evening Walk View 12.01.19 ©Felipe Adan Lerma

And finally, becoming one of my fav framed views from our balcony is the view down and through the upper hallway across from us. I had some great pics through there of the last of the fall colors, and now this, a beautifully lit night view almost as if done by an artist! Maybe it was ā™„ļø

Here’s a little cleaner view below —

Evening Walk View - Detail 12.01.19 ©Felipe Adan Lerma
Evening Walk View – Detail 12.01.19 Ā©Felipe Adan Lerma

Take care everyone! Watch out for beauty everywhere! šŸ’•

Adan

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