
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/ridges-of-spring-light-6×6-acrylic-watercolor-2-felipe-adan-lerma.html
Another of my paintings so hard to accurately capture. Noise reduction etc’s been applied, but still doesn’t convey the softness and depth of this little piece.
There’s actually a lot about Ridges of Spring Light I don’t understand or know yet.
Method
It was my 2nd almost literally stab at slipping watercolor onto one of my new absorbent ground 6×6 inch canvases. My 1st try, Bird’s Eye View (now sold), was more cautious, although that’s relatively speaking, lol!
Ridges of Spring Light is less cautious in the sense that I followed one of the many suggestions I found for applying watercolor via this new substrate — I first literally washed the surface with brush strokes loaded with water, tilted the canvas, and started applying colors I liked, letting gravity pull both the water and pigments down the surface.
Huge areas of the tiny 6×6 square inch surface immediately washed out into thin coats, so I panicked and added much thicker pigment brush loads, my brush still very wet as was the canvas surface and again the colors bled down, but this time small areas and clumps of stronger color remained in spots.
I grabbed one of my toothpicks and pulled lines out of the paint to simulate flowers or growth, and very luckily (cannot claim an ounce of wisdom here) left some white ground areas untouched.
Isolation Coat
When dry, I brush applied Golden’s Clear Soft Gel as an isolation layer, and like my 1st painting, saw a bit of color change, but not much, and again, also a bit of texture loss.
I’ve since decided some (not all) of these works, esp those predominately in watercolor vs acrylic, are best done with a spray isolation coat. I’ve since bought a can of Spectracfix and practiced my 1st isolation spray (original before spraying seen bottom of this post) and can say it’s a huge improvement over brush applying the isolation coat – I’ll have a full post on that soon. Acrylic works I believe will still be able to be done via a brush on method. We’ll see 😊
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Unique Visual Quality of This New Abstract – Works on Many Sizes & Shapes! ❤️
Most of my images, photos and original works, are perfect on at least one or two products Fine Art America offers. Once in awhile a few pieces work on a lot of the products. This piece, Ridges of Spring Light, seems to work with just about anything! Commercial licensing folks – you listening, lol! 😊
I’ve only showing a handful of items below. There’s much more this new work looks great on – shower curtains, phone cases, not to mention the full image as a metal or canvas print!
I know this is kinda bragging, but believe me, I fully acknowledge and gladly accept how fortunate I was to create, and keep, this gorgeous new image intact 😂 It is currently available at the Old Bakery & Emporium, or if you live outside of Austin, directly from me, for $49.00, continental U.S. Priority Mail shipping included 💕 —
For information on any image, you can reach me via my email (checked once a day or so) at – limitededitonsbyadan@gmail.com
Or, for this image specifically, via Fine Art America at – https://fineartamerica.com/sendemail.html?artistid=459979&artworkid=29471720&status=yes&type=original
If you haven’t heard back from me, please post a comment on this or another post letting me know, and which method you tried to reach me –
Thanks so much, everyone!
Adan 😊
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Enjoy the sampling, and there’s much more, at –
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My Latest Posts On My Website!
- January 01, 2023 – Happy New Year! : My Most Viewed Image the Last Week of 2022 @FineArtAmerica, Little Steps PosterA wonderfully fitting image as my most viewed this past week, the last week, of 2022 – Little Steps, my poster version ❤️ 🙏 ☺️
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- December 11, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Morning Light in Barton Springs Greenbelt, Austin Poster” ( circa 2021 ) #AustinTexas #AustinPhotographyMorning Light Poster also recently sold at the Old Bakery and Emporium 🙏😌
- December 03, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Costa Rica Sunset Panorama” : circa 2017I almost skipped even posting about it, but at 4x the views of the nearest most viewed of my images, I needed to drag myself out of my whatever-it-is recent posting stagnation, lol!
- November 21, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Dispatcher” : circa 2011I thought Dispatcher had once already been one of my most viewed of my work on Fine Art America, but I guess not! 😊 It’s been a popular poem, and with the holidays upon us, a great choice as a print or coffee mug ☕️ 🇺🇸
- November 13, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Cypress Creek Mid Afternoon Mid October” : Circa 2019Very unusual to have so many photos from my collection of images at Fine Art America show up among my 12 most viewed images there at FAA, and for so many showing up for the 1st time….
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Thanks again, everyone! 😊
Adan

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[…] later, with watercolors again ❤️ I bought an inexpensive watercolor pan set at Michaels, and Ridges of Spring Light became my very first watercolor experiment and my first thought and reaction using water with […]
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Gorgeous painting Felipe!!!!
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Kirt, thank you so much! I really appreciate it!
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Another lovely painting, Adan! I just love how FAA makes it so easy to see your images on their products, I especially like Ridges of Spring Light on the coffee mug!
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They do a great job! There’s some tech here or coming, I forget, they’ll have where folks can take a picture of where they might like a print (or original I suppose) in their home or office etc, and see how one of our works would look in that spot! And very glad you like the image on the coffee mug too, I was beginning to wonder if it was just ‘cause I love coffee in the morning so much, lol!
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Oh its so pretty! ❤ The colours!
I've been dabbling in painting for the last little bit. Different mediums and styles, just playing around and having fun. I've yet to try watercolour but it is so appealing! As soon as I get some more moola, I'm going to set myself up.
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Thank you so much, Leal! It is fun fooling around & having fun with all these art options! So different from even just 50 years ago where for some reason I felt I was compelled to “choose” between mediums, oh & definitely styles, lol! I do have preferences, but I like being able to respond to the touch of each paints’ appeal as it occurs. I’m still trending toward watercolors regardless 😊 Do you already work in acrylics, Leah? If you do, you can bring in a watercolor two into your acrylics! 😊
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Ooooh I did not know that! Thanks for the tip. I have acrylics right now,just craft store stuff while I play around and get a feel. Once it’s used up, I’m getting the good stuff.
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Exactly my route too, Leal! Try the really bargain stuff, see if the medium feels good to me, then move from there! 😊 Here’s a quick link I found https://www.mybluprint.com/article/watercolors-acrylic-paints-the-ultimate-art-mash-up via a general search https://www.google.com/search?q=using+watercolors+with+acrylics&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari ; that individual article looked really interesting, gonna revisit it 😊
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Ooh thanks!
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