February 05, 2021 – New Excerpt Series Starting Soon, The Old American Artist, with Commentary

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I’ll hopefully be starting a commentary enhanced version of my just finished excerpt series from my 2004 novella, The Old American Artist, next week!

It’ll be fun rummaging through my feelings and thoughts and what the excerpt meant to me then, and what it means to me now, with further hindsight.

I’ve posted some info about the painting on my book’s cover page below. I think I’ve located it, tucked away for over a decade now, lol! Once I can get a got image of it, I’ll upload it to Fine Art America and probably make the painting available for purchase 😊

Immediately below the Image section below, is my Index of sorts from my starting page for the excerpt series itself. Lots of good info with the links tagged to specifics of anything you might like to know more about.

That’s about it for now, hope everyone has a great Friday. We’re gonna try to enjoy the relatively mild weather the next few days ’cause next week we’re looking at possibly dipping into the teens for a few days. Round here, that’s like being 100 far north, lol! We got a lot of good teas for making hot tea, maybe pick up a couple of squashes to make in the oven 😊

Thanks everyone!

Adan

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The Image – San Antonio Riverwalk
Large, 30×40 I think, painted with water soluble oils in the early 2000s, San Antonio Riverwalk

San Antonio Riverwalk, my cover image for The Old American Artist, is one of two San Antonio painting I’ve done, the other titled the same, 24×36, sold a long time ago in New York.

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My cover image for The Old American Artist (top of post), was in climate control storage for a long time after a dear friend, a curator and promoter who’d championed this piece, passed away. I’ve had it in my closet for many years now, took it out last summer, gave it a good look, and put it back away. Robert, a dear supportive friend who’s unfortunately no longer with us, said he could never figure out how I made my work look as European as I did. I didn’t either, much less knew or felt or realized, as I do now, how true that was. Probably the Impressionism of it. I still don’t really know. Part of the mystery of art and me and whatever it is that really happens deep down in the creative chambers of my soul ❤️

Ironically, I’ve some recent watercolors I can think of that are also impressionistic and one, in particular, A Walk in Paris With a View of the Eiffel Tower, nearly as European. But that’s cheating, since Paris is in Europe, lol!

Related post for A Walk in Paris –
https://felipeadanlerma.com/2020/05/16/aging-through-covid-19-march-16-2020/

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Of the other two works, one is of wildflowers here in Austin, and the other is an imaginative figure work!

Related blog post for Walk Among the Wildflowers –
https://felipeadanlerma.com/2020/05/22/a-walk-among-the-wildflowers-new-watercolor-on-absorbent-ground-may-2020/

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Reference post/page about my series of excerpts for The Old American Artist 👩‍🎨 

With info on or about : 

• Intro to this series
• Tweet itself on Twitter
• The image art for my cover, my painting, San Antonio Riverwalk
• About my art and it’s relationship to this literary fiction work
• The numbering system I’m using in the tweets (and why)
• Hashtag #OldAmericanArtistExcerpts – why I use it in my tweets

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Useful Links

My paintings @FineArtAmerica – https://felipeadan-lerma.pixels.com/collections/paintings

Universal Book Link to Apple B&N, OverDrive +++ http://buff.ly/2YytUB7 

Amazon Book Link http://amzn.to/2UY6yT2A

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#OldAmericanArtistExcerpts series link on this site – https://felipeadanlerma.com/tag/oldamericanartistexcerpts/

Posts about my watercolors here on my site –
https://felipeadanlerma.com/tag/adans-watercolor-painting/

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Thanks again everyone! 😊

Twitter / Instagram / FB @FelipeAdanLerma
Amazon Author Page – https://amzn.to/2YpgyUf
Fine Art America (FAA, Pixels) – https://felipeadan-lerma.pixels.com/

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My Related Amazon Affiliate Search Products
https://www.amazon.com/shop/felipeadanlerma

My Amazon search for Impressionism in books –
https://amzn.to/36G0sg7

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My Related Posts Here On My Blog

My Latest Posts On My Website!

• Follow-up blog post after my 1st blog post since August 2025 earlier this week – Definitely like starting new!December 20, 2025
  “The relinquishing of one’s art, my art, to myself, is sometimes more scary than gearing my productivity to outside expectations”
• My 1st blog post since August this year (2025) – Like starting new!December 18, 2025
  “My plan, my hope, is to keep this, my original layin, produce a new 2nd similar layin but add a content color layin; keep it; then repeat the steps with the two formative layers and see what finished product I might produce – 3 works total”
• Poetry and Art 2025 : 1st Wings 2025 8×10 – by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊August 10, 2025
  Excerpt from my original poem for 1st Wings — “teasing smiles from her wide eyes as trembles  aches stretched sweet like taffy….” – Adan –
• Poetry and Art 2025 : Scratches Made Whole 11×14 2025 – by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊June 28, 2025
  “she felt herself in pieces gathered her sharp edges slowly – – her smoother edge moments gingerly in a dance of yes and no” – Adan –
• Thrust 2025 11×14 Fearless, With Hope, Through the Chaos – by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊May 17, 2025
  “Ancient earth tones touched her feet swam underneath her skirt brushed her skin with raw silk cells” – Adan –
• Poetry and Painting – Thrust 2025 24×36 Into the Void – by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊April 27, 2025
  “Leaping thrusting herself into the void of life’s light” – Adan –
• Poetry and Painting – Thrust 2025 24×36 Whispering – by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊March 30, 2025
  “Leaping thrusting herself into the void of life’s light” – Adan –

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Thanks again, everyone! 😊

Adan

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