Artist Process
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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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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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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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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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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 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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August 21, 2022 – Working Texture and Figures into Compositions I Like, Part 3 : Finally Adding a 2nd Layer to Danseur en Bleu ( formerly Dancing Turquoise )
It’s been since July 08, 2022 since I first posted about this work-in-progress, and it’s actually was begun late June with the pencil sketch of the woman dancing! Here’s a comparison with the 1st actual painting lay-in from early July —
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July 08, 2022 – Working Texture and Figures into Compositions I Like, Part 2 : Comparing Figure Outlines
It’s nearly ten, time for bed, but I want to follow-up on yesterday’s post showing my newest figure work in-progress, and continue the comparison to figure work since late last year and from right before our move beginning of summer ( 2022 ).
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July 07, 2022 – Working Texture and Figures into Compositions I Like, Part 1 : Using a Full Figure Outline
Today I came closest to my full exercise schedule before our move to our new apartment, and yes, it wore me out, lol! But in a good way 😊 Still, it’s past 8:30 pm, and I almost didn’t get any painting in, but thankfully, did do a bit of in-lay texture dabbling ( not shown…
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June 23, 2022 – El Marisquero Seafood – 1st Time Eating Outside in a Texas Summer in Decades! #FoodTruck #EastAustin
Though I definitely can’t make it a habit, having a great tasting lunch break “outside” in the middle of the day in 100+ degree weather here in Austin was more than bearable – actually a pleasure!
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June 18, 2022 – A Little Art Project While Not Being Able to Paint During Our Move to #TheLadyBird #AustinTexas
Obviously, as per my recent posts about moving to our new locale at The LadyBird, I’ve been stretched for time and energy. Moving in one’s 70s is no fun task, though Sheila and I are relishing our new location more and more as we near completing our transition.
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June 02, 2022 – “Morning’s Promise” : Completed, After 2 Days of Finishing Touches
A different kind of textural experiment for me, as most the painting’s pigments were laid in with generous amounts of either transparent white acrylic, heavy matte gel acrylic or both. With sprinkles of marble dust here and there 😊
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June 01, 2022 – New, My Art With Digital Mat Design Poster @FineArtAmerica – “Blue with Gold Twilight Poster”
It’s in the swirls and mixes that the most of life gains its beauty.
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May 31, 2022 – Working My Art Slowly Since #Uvalde – “Morning’s Promise” Still In-Progress, Feels Close to Finished
There is a persistence in hope, and if we are to live a life worth living, it seems we must persist, we must hope – and – we must act.
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May 17, 2022 – I Have a Lot of Happenings ( art & personal ) This Week, But Still Finding Moments To Start a New Painting : Morning’s Promise
It’s nice to dance the surface of my canvas as needed. And able ☺️ And right now, a light step, at an easy pace, may give me the time – and energy – to get more than a handful of other needed things also done this week. Not a bad compromise. For now 😊
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May 16, 2022 – New Diptych : “Freedom” Almost Finished, Panels Need Signing ( front & back )
And what I’ve come across figuring out how to make prints of this that folks can work with, ie, close to or within standard size dimensions, was how to get a 22×28 image convert into – in 2 examples – an 8×10 or 12×18, and I came up with this as a starting prototype….
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May 07, 2022 – New Diptych : Freedom, 1st Inlay
Continuing yesterday’s them of simplicity – some days simple being good 😊 – I decided to try a simplified polyptych, a two panel diptych with minimal over-all imagery, though of course open to extended nuancing of some or any portion of the the color fields.
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May 01, 2022 – Slept a Lot, Painted a Little, Getting Better! #AgingGracefully
A sleepy multi-nap afternoon, one 15 minute exercise early, and a touch of painting was my day, lol!
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April 29, 2022 – 3rd Lay-in for New #AcrylicDiptych, Formerly Titled “Seeing” and Now Titled “Eyes of the Universe”
I like to read biographies of artists – Joan Mitchell Lady Painter, Helen Frankenthaler Fierce Pose, Monet – not so much for techniques any more, but for how they thought creatively. What they struggled with, what excited them and meant something dear to them.
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April 28, 2022 – Sometimes It’s Great To Come Across Another Artist’s Thoughts On Art When Worrying ’bout My Own, #Monet
I like to read biographies of artists – Joan Mitchell Lady Painter, Helen Frankenthaler Fierce Pose, Monet – not so much for techniques any more, but for how they thought creatively. What they struggled with, what excited them and meant something dear to them.
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April 27, 2022 – Aging Gracefully : Finding a Blogging Solution When My Days Are ( mostly ) Spent Exercising, Painting and Relaxing with Sheila
When I was younger, say even a 11 years ago when I started this blog, I had enough energy there really wasn’t a question of “enough time” or “energy” – I simply, correctly, assumed I’d be able to squeeze in the time to do all the things I wanted or felt I needed to do.
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April 20, 2022 – Started a New Diptych : Dawn, Declaring It Done
Working on this painting this morning, adding varying depths of blue and black, here and there, in crevices and ridges and along the edges of textured matte expanses, I felt very strongly trying to force in any degree of red, or even pink, would just not work for me.
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April 19, 2022 – Started a New Diptych : Dawn ( or Desire at Dawn ), 1st 2 In-lays
…about this new in-progress work : It’s tentatively titled Dawn, or Desire at Dawn – if I figure out how to work in some red or pink in a way I’d like, with the feeling of the beginnings of something, like embers; maybe suggestive of those kindling moments before one is fully aware – then…
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April 18, 2022 – Birth of an Atom, New Acrylic Diptych, Part 2 ( now finished! )
I debated strengthening the dark passages on the left side panel to more closely match the right panel, but decided an arbitrary balancing, vs an asymetrical wave motion across the 2 pieces, would hurt the full image more than help. As a libra I tend to want to balance, over-balance at times, everything, lol!
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April 14, 2022 – Birth of an Atom, New Acrylic Diptych ( almost finished! )
Using my last pair ( I think I have one black gesso panel left ) I had on / off fun between chores working up Birth of an Atom. Paint is slashed here and there across between the 2, sometimes seamlessly, sometimes….
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April 05, 2022 – Experimenting With Polyptychs, Part 3 – Black Panel Diptychs
Though not able yet to paint ( time wise ) at the level I was working before ( chores, obligations, etc ) – I did squeak out a couple of new polyptychs, both diptych 2-panel pieces, each panel a 16×20 black canvas work.
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April 03, 2022 – 1st Time in a Long Time, My 3 Most Viewed Images this Past Week @FineArtAmerica are Photography!
A short stunned post for my most viewed this week on Fine Art America! My top 3 most viewed images are all photography, with only 5 of my top 12 paintings! So I’m left with a weird question….
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