Figure Painting
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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 – 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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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 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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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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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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August 07, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week (again) @FineArtAmerica, “Walking in Light” : circa 2021
Having reappeared last week as my most viewed image on Fine Art America last week – after also being most viewed late last year ( 2021 ) – “Walking in Light” has again surfaced as my most viewed this 1st week of August 2022!
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August 05, 2022 – 2 Paintings Accepted for Juried Show at Inspired Minds Art Center, Buda Texas!!
…the bigger news is I’ve had two paintings, “Fantasy Walk” and “Walking in Light” accepted for a juried show at Inspired Minds At Center, sponsored by Creative Arts Society, opening later this month!
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July 31, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Walking in Light” : circa 2021
Immediately popular since completing this work in 2021, Walking in Light is still drawing attention and, at this point, still available, lol!
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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 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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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 28, 2022 – Sheila & I Attended 2 Gallery Openings Saturday! Stop #2 #AustinArtSpace in North Central Austin
…we were ready to ease down to an old familiar location having their 1st open-art-call opening and show since before the pandemic – AVAA’s Austin Art Space!
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May 24, 2022 – Sheila & I Attended 2 Gallery Openings Saturday! Stop #1 #PrimalGalleryDS West of Austin
A from-the-ground-up creation of Primal Gallery owner Joe Lednicky, the atmosphere was hopeful while conversations bubbled and rolled round the large interior.
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May 22, 2022 – Sheila & I Attended 2 Gallery Openings Saturday! #PrimalGalleryDS #AustinArtSpace
Art is definitely a way of life – but it also definitely can make life more fun! 😊
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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 05, 2022 – New 22×28 Inch #Acrylic #AbstractArt Upload @FineArtAmerica – “Spring Rising”
At 22×28 inches, canvas on stretcher bars, Spring Rising is one of my relatively larger abstract works so far, not counting my multi-canvas panel abstracts, or polyptychs as I’ve found out they’re also called.
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May 02, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, Walking With the Stars, #FigureArt #Surreal
Walking With the Stars has been a slow journey of discovery and development since early January this year ( 2022 )
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April 25, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, A Blush of Spring, #Watercolor
There’s a reason A Blush of Spring is my most viewed again, even after just over a year since last “most viewed” on Fine Art America. Once it reappeared as prints at a variety of locations, it has once again captured the attention of viewers & buyers 🙏 ☺️
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April 23, 2022 – Updated My “See and Buy My Art” Page to Include Primal Gallery in Dripping Springs, Texas
Today ( Friday, April 22 ) has been a long day of chores, but I did do a lay-in for a potential new yellow abstract ( I say potential ’cause I’m not as sure as usual where this one’s going, lol! ) – and – updated my See and Buy My Art page / post…
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April 17, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, a Tie! #Photography & #Watercolor : Austin Pink Sunset & Mother and Child!
So very different, my top 2, one dark & one light, photo & acrylic, yet – with their soft pinks and sense of rest and peaceful nurturing, so very much alike! Plus, I think this is only my 2nd or so tie for most viewed among my top 12….
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April 13, 2022 – Neon Lady Accepted at #ArtForThePeopleGallery for New Show!
I’m very pleased to have a new work available at Art for the People Gallery here in Austin! Neon Lady has a funky yet very sensuous aura that speaks to the joy we can feel and express through movement….
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April 12, 2022 – New 16×20 Inch #Acrylic #FigureArt Upload @FineArtAmerica – Neon Lady
16×20, acrylic on stretched canvas, here shown framed, Neon Lady, a work started late last year ( 2021 ) took me awhile to refine the edges of the figure, then develop / decide the colors expanding outward toward the edges.





































