Arts
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New Watercolor Upload to Fine Art America – Fall Color 1, June 2020
It only took me forever to finally post this, actually a few days, but feels like “way” longer, lol! I started it, a simple posting, assuming “no big deal” but got waylaid by a heat index of 118 yesterday, sandwiched by rare Austin summer days to actually walk more than just at daybreak 😊 But…
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Finding A Composition Among Clutter (Tips for Paintings and Drawings) via Dianne Mize Studio June 2020
“Anything that initially catches our attention is a good place to start. I pointed out how the light rays are striking those upper center flowers and the shadows of the two on the outside. So let’s start there.“ – Dianne Mize
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New Uploads to Fine Art America – Monarch and Starburst Bloom, June 2020 🎨 👩🎨
Finally forcing myself to start updating my original paintings catalog of works on Fine Art America, lol! Many, like Starburst Bloom, are in both my general painting gallery and my floral gallery, which itself includes both photography and art work.
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Aging Through Covid-19, June 04, 2020 – Resting From Too Much Exertion
Resting Up From Too Much Exertion, lol 😊 We had a rare patch of extremely nice weather for nearly a week here in Central Texas recently (now heading to near then above 100-107 next 10 days!) and I literally immersed myself in long fresh air walks and extra live online yoga and balance classes and…
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Easy Morning – New Watercolor #FigureArt on Absorbent Ground, May 2020
Easy Morning, new watercolor on absorbent ground 6×6 gallery wrap canvas #figureart My newest figure work had the usual tug and pull process painting it 😊 I really like the soft gentle feel of it, and especially like the look my wife got seeing it ❤️
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At Rest With Nature – New Watercolor on Absorbent Ground, May 2020
At Peace With Nature has several firsts for me. One, it’s a 5×7 stretched canvas, another size like my recent 6×12, A Walk Among the Wildflowers, I haven’t done in quite awhile, certainly even further back by maybe even decades, lol! It’s an interesting size, being small, yet enabling and enhancing the sense of length…
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 26, 2020 – Be Kitschig RePost
Photo Lessons for Dummies by BE KITSCHIG is a superb humor laden look at the all too common pitfalls and inadvertent mistakes we all non-professionals make with our cameras 😂
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A Walk Among the WildFlowers – New Watercolor on Absorbent Ground, May 2020
As one can tell by my photo below, I took a few liberties, but to some extent, that happens whether I plan it or not, lol 😂 But I like the result too much to alter anything on it. Another version, another time, will elicit a different response, and I do think this is one…
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Covid-19 Visit to Lady Bird Wildflower Center May 2020 💐
First trip I can think of for Sheila & myself, much less with Max, since maybe pre-Covid! 💕 Short, less than 2 hours, and less than 15 minutes from home, but what a treat! 😊
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 17, 2020 – Sunday Rest with Review of Art Pieces to Improve
The current work, for now titled Dancing Free, below the Paris painting, shows how the transparent ground “clouds up”, creating the soft streaking across the black gesso.
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 16, 2020 – New Paris Watercolor Art
I think if I had to name one important goal I accomplished with this small Paris work, it’s that I stopped much shorter than usual in re to feeling I overdid the image. Some may say I “way” stopped short of overdoing 😂 but I truly like the white & lighter negative spaces.
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 14, 2020 – New Watercolor Abstract Impressionist Art
“… there was a point, decades ago, I finally realized I had this tug-a-war going on within me : translate an image to paint (realistically faithful to the photo or plein air scene), or go abstract, usually way abstract 😊 ”
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 12, 2020 – Social Distancing
Besides painting and finalizing details for renewing our current rental lease into early spring, we also got to spend a truly lovely afternoon social distant visiting with the youngest girl, her husband, and of course the 7 year old ❤️
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 09, 2020 – New Watercolor Impressionist Landscape Art
Well, I was gonna do a short piece about pollution and Covid-19, but was working on my 2nd watercolor on white absorbent ground yesterday and today and decided it was well enough done to post it and talk a little ‘bout that, lol! 😊
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 07, 2020 – New Watercolor Dancer Art
Dancing Between the Lines…It doesn’t have the sparse clean contrast of my previous 3 watercolors on black absorbent ground. This also is on white absorbent ground and my challenges are very different.
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 05, 2020 – New Watercolor Dancer Figure Art
Dancer in Moonlight is similar, created with M. Graham white gouache, and applied in varying intensities t create shape and form, and of course, ultimately, effect!
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 04, 2020 – New Watercolor Figure Art
Yesterday’s post, with the 1st of 3 new watercolor gouache paintings on black absorbent ground, Moonlight Goblet, continues with my 2nd piece, experimenting using M. Graham white watercolor gouache (vs acrylic gouache) is Nude with Robe Night.
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 03, 2020 – Watercolor Still Life Painting Updated
I debated whether to share some more +/- Covid related articles, or put up some of my more recent watercolors on absorbent ground paintings, and considering I was picked as May Artist of the Month by Creative Arts Society in Austin, I chose the latter 😊
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 01, 2020 – Wedding Anniversary and More
Full Day – 39th Wedding Anniversary, May Artist of the Month w/Creative Arts Society, Saw Youngest Grandchild and Daughter.
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 29, 2020 – Stay at Home Entropy
Had planned a short post explaining why I haven’t written a post for several days and it’s morphed into a long hopefully important post of things I’ve come to conclusions about re what Covid-19 is beginning to mean to me beyond any one of us could get ill and/or die.
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 25, 2020 – Tiffany Arp-Daleo RePosting
easiest fun thing for me to do today is share a link to a very creative visual artist who, in these often trying times, has turned to including creating visual art not with her husband, but rather on her husband! 😂
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 24, 2020 – 1st Butterfly Spotting
Butterfly spotting! It was only one, one tiny one, but it was heart warmingly welcome, even the near 100 degree heat today. All records highs fell in the various weather stations.
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 23, 2020 – Chinese White Art Paint
The short post packs a lot of interesting history about its development as a color, including an impressive list of artists “way” back who 1st starting using it 😊
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 22, 2020 – Earth Day
The day itself was mostly drizzly-rainy but nice cool vs 90+ degrees a few days ago (90s coming again very soon), but then the sky semi-cleared with gorgeous breaks, almost fissures, among the clouds.
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 20, 2020 – Downtown Austin During Closures
Here’s a link and sample of my son Philip’s pictures of downtown Austin taken very recently. He used to live in a high rise downtown but has a nice place nearby now.
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My Most Viewed Images @FineArtAmerica 2nd Week April 2020 😊
There’s a few thing especially nice about this past week’s most viewed images on Fine Art America, probably the variety styles and date range (when uploaded or from what year originally) being the most satisfying — Volleyball Setter, Little Step Poster, Good Morning Bird Poster 😊
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 19, 2020 – Staying Fit with Walking, Protein and Sleep
Within the growing info getting my attention re the value of walking and stretching and sleep, three pieces of the puzzle have merged into more concrete actionable time on my part —
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 18, 2020 – Sold a Vermont Image on Fine Art America
Sold a print on Fine Art America! 😊 My sincere thanks to my buyer in Buffalo, New York! It’s a small but big welcome bit of news ❤️ And, this purchase benefited from my new one dollar markup on all size prints and gift items, on ALL my images on Fine Art America – yes!
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Thoughts On My New One Dollar Markup Pricing @FineArtAmerica 💵 😊
Earlier this week I posted about new pricing for both all my prints and gift items plus two of my licensing tiers for my images, both at Fine Art America! 😊 Virtual friends left comments and contacted me and offered a gamut of encouragements, alternative suggestions, and general goodwill for a fellow artist struggling during…
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 16, 2020 – New Watercolor Still Life
More 6×6 watercolor with gouache painting, still life 🎨 Had thought I’d just be doing a hi-bye quick post tonight, Sheila’s been have one of her rare vertigo days, and we took it real easy through out the day. But I did touch up the other small watercolor with gouache I mentioned in yesterdays post…
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 15, 2020 – New Watercolor Figure Art
“… this is my 1st completed work on black absorbent ground, and, using white gouache, which is water based like watercolors, and I’ve several things I “think” I’m seeing using both, especially against the dark background.”
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Updating My Pricing @FineArtAmerica Includes My Licensing Offers 💵 😊
I’ve now also adjusted my licensing pricing, switching from the more expensive Getty model to the less pricey Shutterstock model. These cover both one time use and extended use licensing.
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 14, 2020 – Wearing Masks
Wearing masks in Austin starts (officially) today Just a few days after seeing close to 90% of the folks at a local supermarket not wearing masks, not donning gloves, and generally putting their phones and other items on the fresh produce, the City of Austin has issued an order for all folks to wear masks…
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 13, 2020 – Social Distancing with Grandson
Shaking up my art offers 🎨 Today, the first full day not taking antibiotics in two weeks – I changed my pricing on all my prints and gift items, plus my licensing offers – all the items I have control over at Fine Art America!!!
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 11, 2020 – Ruminations on a Slow Saturday
Ruminations for a slow Saturday Well, I’ve been wanting to slow down, and today I did (slow as I already was going, lol! 😂)
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 09, 2020 – New Watercolor Figure Art
it was a really good opportunity to find an image I liked, and reproduce it in my own style, picking up pointers so to speak by virtue of simply studying the image to be able to transcribe it!
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 06, 2020 – Delivering Food to Children
This one’s straight from here in the United States, in Mississippi. We’ve friends from that nearby part of the world, and I had interesting drive-through experience while in the Air Force driving from NW Florida to home, but that’s another story 😊
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 03, 2020 – New Watercolor Figure Art
Hi everyone! Further below I finally got the time to take a quick pic of some new 6×6 watercolor work I’m doing I’m liking very much, especially in terms of establishing a new direction.
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Flowering at Dawn – New Watercolor with Absorbent Ground Painting Progress Update 03.13.20 Plus Thoughts on the Virus Crisis 😊
Having interests, passions even, one can pursue, and let’s say pursue relatively easily, is important for everyone, but especially, I think, for young children and for older adults. I’ll let each person decide what an older adult, or a young child, lol, is, age-wise 💕
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 12 – Snow Waterfront Park Walk, Digital Art Photography circa 2016
From archival prints to yoga mats and coffee mugs, see it all here – Snow Waterfront Park Walk ©Felipe Adan Lerma https://felipeadan-lerma.pixels.com/featured/snow-waterfront-park-walk-felipe-adan-lerma.html
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Closed my eBay Listings, For Now 03.11.20
In my continuing effort to grapple with getting a handle on my time, combined with the fees and lack of sales, I’ve suspended my listings on eBay for now. To be fair, due to time choices, I didn’t do as much advertising and social media as I could have, at least without taking more time…
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 11 – Orange Sky Tree Tops, Photography circa 2016
From archival prints to yoga mats and coffee mugs, see it all here – Orange Sky Tree Tops ©Felipe Adan Lerma https://felipeadan-lerma.pixels.com/featured/orange-sky-tree-tops-felipe-adan-lerma.html
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My Three Latest Art and Photo Uploads to Fine Art America 😊
“…these are my three most recent uploads to my site on Fine Art America. I’d wanted to do more, more frequently, and post about each one, but as I pointed out in my most recent post, time and other priorities took the lead, and their toll…Still, this has worked out to really show my creative…
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Short Update on My Art, Blog Posts and Fitness 😊 March 08, 2020
With less dr visits planned this coming week, I’m hoping to use that extra time to paint again (beyond prep work) – and – post regularly again! I did upload my first new image to Fine Art America last night in almost three weeks, and hope to have a “new FAA uploads” post up later…
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 10 – Busy Butterfly Side 1, Photography circa 2016
From archival prints to yoga mats and coffee mugs, see it all here – Busy Butterfly Side 1 ©Felipe Adan Lerma https://fineartamerica.com/featured/busy-butterfly-side-1-felipe-adan-lerma.html
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 9 – Flower Face, Photography circa 2016
From archival prints to yoga mats and coffee mugs, see it all here – Flower Face ©Felipe Adan Lerma https://fineartamerica.com/featured/flower-face-felipe-adan-lerma.html
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 8 – Busy Butterfly Side 2, Photography circa 2016
From archival prints to yoga mats and coffee mugs, see it all here – Busy Butterfly Side 2 ©Felipe Adan Lerma https://felipeadan-lerma.pixels.com/featured/busy-butterfly-side-2-felipe-adan-lerma.html
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Update Using Spectrafix Non-Toxic Fixative Spray for Watercolors (The Earth is a Garden & Violet Blooms Cluster Varied Background) 02.22.20
“Now, is it just me (cause I just noticed this after I shot this pic, late yesterday evening at last light) that there two very friendly floral “spirits” facing / embracing each other as they come out of the earth-like sphere?”
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 7 – The Seine And Quay Beside Notre Dame, Autumn (Paris), Photography circa 2012
From archival prints to yoga mats and coffee mugs, see it all here – https://felipeadan-lerma.pixels.com/featured/the-seine-and-quay-beside-notre-dame-autumn-felipe-adan-lerma.html
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 6 – A Spray of Wild Onions, Photography circa 2001
From archival prints to yoga mats and coffee mugs, see it all here – https://fineartamerica.com/featured/a-spray-of-wild-onions-felipe-adan-lerma.html
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