Arts
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My 1st blog post since August this year (2025) – Like starting new!
“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”
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Poetry and Art 2025 : 1st Wings 2025 8×10 – by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊
Excerpt from my original poem for 1st Wings — “teasing smiles from her wide eyes as trembles aches stretched sweet like taffy….” – Adan –
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Poetry and Art 2025 : Scratches Made Whole 11×14 2025 – by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊
“she felt herself in pieces gathered her sharp edges slowly – – her smoother edge moments gingerly in a dance of yes and no” – Adan –
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Thrust 2025 11×14 Fearless, With Hope, Through the Chaos – by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊
“Ancient earth tones touched her feet swam underneath her skirt brushed her skin with raw silk cells” – Adan –
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Poetry and Painting – Thrust 2025 24×36 Into the Void – by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊
“Leaping thrusting herself into the void of life’s light” – Adan –
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Poetry and Painting – Thrust 2025 24×36 Whispering – by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊
“Leaping thrusting herself into the void of life’s light” – Adan –
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Painting in Focus – Summer 2025 @SaatchiArt – Seasonally Off, Emotionally On
…much of this whole write-up about Summer 2025, I discovered while writing this very post – a very similar creative path I experience painting. That’s part of what the creative effort does for me – helps me make sense of things I feel but can’t yet explain.
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Update: Starlight 2025 – a work-in-progress post from Feb’22 – My New Year’s Resolution, Finish This Painting by Feb ’25!
I’ve procrastinated finishing this post almost as much as finishing this painting, Dreaming With the Moon and Stars 2022-25, based on Childe Hassan’s gorgeous impressionist masterpiece, On the Balcony 1888.
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Painting in Focus – Thrust 8×10 2025 @SaatchiArt – Learning to Use a Public Domain Image to Paint My Original Art – 😊
My translation into my own style starts with this small 8×10 beige pinkish textured abstraction, Thrust 8×10 2025 ..
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Poetry and Painting – Eiffel Tower by Bus Tour Poster circa 2016 – by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊
“the night air a pastry fresh baked, and you and I, arm in arm” – Adan –
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Poetry and Painting – Blue Paradise 2024 by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊
8×10, acrylic on canvas, I love the simplicity yet depth of feeling in this small piece 😊🙏❤️
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Painting in Focus – My Most Viewed Painting this Past Week, January 12, 2025 @FineArtAmerica – Shimmer 2024 😊
Shimmer 2024 8×10 acrylic – It’s nice to have 2 great art sites with slightly differing options for much of my art work! Each with my commentary re this painting 😊
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Painting in Focus – Fierce Summer – Last Painting Finished in 2024 – @SaatchiArt 😊
Scratchy, generally unpolished, the figure (via a snapshot I’d taken along Town Lake in Austin years ago) nevertheless has a lot….
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Painting in Focus – Shimmer 2024 @FineArtAmerica : Prints and Gifts 😊
A small pleasant piece that makes me smile 😊🙏❤️ – Shimmer 2024
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Painting in Focus – Shimmer 2024 @SaatchiArt 😊
A small pleasant piece that makes me smile 😊🙏❤️ – Shimmer 2024
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Reblog: a work-in-progress post from Feb’22 – My New Year’s Resolution, Finish This Painting by Feb ’25!
I’ve procrastinated finishing this post almost as much as finishing this painting, Dreaming With the Moon and Stars 2022-25, based on Childe Hassan’s gorgeous impressionist masterpiece, On the Balcony 1888.
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Merry Christmas 2024! — 11 Christmas Paintings by Norman Rockwell in a 2022 Article From HistoryHit
It’s nice to have 2 great art sites with slightly differing options for much of my art work!
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Painting in Focus – My Most Viewed Painting this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, Tender is the Night 2024 😊
It’s nice to have 2 great art sites with slightly differing options for much of my art work!
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Painting in Focus – We Met in a Fog of Hope 2024 @SaatchiArt 😊
A layin I immediately realized could not be improved on, loved this piece on site! 😊🙏❤️
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Painting in Focus – Prayers 2024 @SaatchiArt 😊
newest work I use a pointed tool to bring out more of the figure’s form 😊🙏❤️
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Painting in Focus – In the Moment 2024
the 1st work I openly used a pointed tool to bring out more of the figure’s form 😊🙏❤️
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Painting in Focus – With Her Heart Near, She Sang Into the Future 2024
Romantic, sensuous & wistful in impressionistic rendering…. ❤️
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Painting in Focus – She Walks Two Shores 2024
Lyrical and sensuous in an impressionist style, my small 9″ x 12″ watercolor on paper with original hand ink drawing – She Walks Two Shores 2024 🙏😊 Adan * * Click or slide to view images from early 1980s to 2024 🧑🎨 🎨 👩🎤 **** Online Saatchi Art – https://www.saatchiart.com/FelipeAdanLerma– originals & prints – Fine Art…
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Painting in Focus – Music on the Water 2021
…. a delightful watercolor for me to make 😊
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Painting in Focus – Blue Dancer 2023
Blue Dancer is another approach I like (along with line work) with a differing type of visual impact. Definitely fun 😊
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Painting in Focus – Petals 2020
Petals 2020 – Watercolors and ink pen lines are combined on a coated gallery wrapped canvas…the soft colors offering a soothing respite ❤️
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Painting in Focus – Dance circa 2022
Dance 2021 – acrylic & watercolor on canvas ©️Felipe Adan Lerma https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Dance-2021/2369095/12062561/view @saatchiart
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Happy 4th of July 2024! 🇺🇸 ❤️ Remember to Vote! 😊
Burlington Vermont waterfront last night, where fireworks are on the night before.
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January 01, 2023 – Happy New Year! : My Most Viewed Image the Last Week of 2022 @FineArtAmerica, Little Steps Poster
A 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 18, 2022 – 1st Return Appearance Since Spring : My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, Blue with Gold Twilight – #Panorama
Ocean waves of blue fill our skies and seas, cascading sighs and whispers of inspiration with each breath.
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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 #AustinPhotography
Morning Light Poster also recently sold at the Old Bakery and Emporium 🙏😌
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December 03, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Costa Rica Sunset Panorama” : circa 2017
I 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!
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November 21, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Dispatcher” : circa 2011
I 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 ☕️ 🇺🇸
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November 13, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Cypress Creek Mid Afternoon Mid October” : Circa 2019
Very 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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November 06, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Arc de ( d’Nuit ) Triomphe Poster ” : Image Circa 2012, Poster 2017
Once again one of my poster designs was my most viewed image from among my listings for prints and gifts on Fine Art America….
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October 30, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Volleyball Kill Poster” : circa 1994 ( writing ) / 2021 ( poster design )
Another of my sayings / posters made it as my most viewed of my work on Fine Art America this past week, Volleyball Kill, which I wrote in the early 90s….
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October 24, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Danseur en Bleu” : circa 2022
Quite an unexpected treat to see my newest painting, Danseur en Bleu, it’s 1st week on Fine Art America, be my most viewed of my images for the past week!
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October 18, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Blue with Gold Twilight Poster” : circa 2022
Amazing! Two weeks in a row now one of my posters of one of my original art works has been my most viewed image of the week at Fine Art America!! 😊
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October 16, 2022 – Working Texture and Figures into Compositions I Like, Part 7 : Danseur en Bleu ( formerly Dancing Turquoise ) Completed in High Key
Though uniformly high key nearly to a fault – even the 9 year old grandson said maybe I needed to add some darker colors 😊 – I’m declaring this work done! I explained to the grandson I totally agreed, but….
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October 10, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, 2nd Week Running, “Walking With the Stars Poster” : circa 2022
Wow! My poster version of “Walking with the Stars” appeared as my most viewed image of the week at Fine Art America for the 2nd week in a row!! 😊
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October 02, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Walking With the Stars Poster” : circa 2022
Especially nice for to see my poster version of “Walking with the Stars” appear as my most viewed image of the week at Fine Art America 😊
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September 28, 2022 – Working Texture and Figures into Compositions I Like, Part 6 : Adding a 5th ( scumbled ) Layer to Danseur en Bleu ( formerly Dancing Turquoise )
I don’t want to forget, souls and spirits that we may be, we are also of and from the Earth we stand upon ❤️
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September 25, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Walk Among the Wildflowers” : circa 2020
I’m hoping to catch the deadline to submit it to a new-to-me Austin venue, Bee Caves Arts Foundation. Do wish me luck. It’d be a great add-on to its being my most viewed on Fine Art America this past week 😊🙏
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September 21, 2022 – Working Texture and Figures into Compositions I Like, Part 5 : Adding a 4th ( textured ) Layer to Danseur en Bleu ( formerly Dancing Turquoise )
Much enhanced less subtle, but more vibrant, the current stage of development for Danseur en Bleu is nearing a finish.
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September 19, 2022 – Working Texture and Figures into Compositions I Like, Part 4 : Adding a 3rd ( pink ) Layer to Danseur en Bleu ( formerly Dancing Turquoise )
I only painted a few minutes, ten or so, after mixing matte gel medium and a touch of acrylic rose, and I could only do it because I’m hopeful!
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September 18, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Time at the Musee d’Orsay ” : circa 2012
Just a month ago Time at the Musee d’Orsay suddenly popped up as my most viewed, and here it is again! Maybe that means we’ll make it back to Paris eventually after all, lol!
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September 16, 2022 – “Blue with Gold Twilight” and “Pink with Maroon Landscape and Bird” in New #CreativeArtsSociety Juried Art Show at Riverbend Church!
Just got word today two of my 10×20 gallery wrap acrylics have been juried into a show I’ve never done with Creative Arts Society before, at Riverbend Church’s “Inspirational Gallery” in Austin’s western side – yes, hills! 😊
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September 14, 2022 – Adan’s #ArtPoems / #PhotoPoems : Faith in a Safe Return
Sometimes when i haven’t been able to paint or photo shoot, or even exercise enough to forget I haven’t been creative, a beguilingly simple poem to one of my own art works does the trick 🙏☺️
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September 11, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “SRV Statue Night” : circa 2017
Such a surprise! I didn’t even have “SRV Statue BW with Austin Skyline” in my media photos here on Wordpress, but now I do! 😊
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September 06, 2022 – Pacing Myself to My September 8th Operation on My Breathing Channels – Ordering Meds, Gathering Supplies, Exercising Slowly But Strongly
Yesterday, Labor Day, time got away from us, mixing down time watching Morse, the late 80’s predecessor to Masterpieces’ equally engaging Endeavor, plus finalizing forms for our before-dawn checkin for surgery.
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