Figure Painting
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September 16, 2021 – Reblog(s) : Graham McQuade, Benchmarks 1 & 2 (Acrylic Painting) #figureart
This necessarily (on my part) a short post due to some time constraints, although I should add, Graham’s posts will be a quick read. They’re short, tight with information. What will take a little time, if you notice the time 😊 is….
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September 11, 2021 – “Fantasy Walk” : Figure Art on Light Molding Paste on Canvas, Calling it Done, Sorta….
Developing this painting has been more lesson on do’s and don’t’s I think than of completing a finished work, though I also think I’m gonna have to call this one done and move on. Looking at the image sequence from top to bottom, working from finish back to my start, I can see several “things”…
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September 08, 2021 – Developing 2 New Figure Paintings on Light Molding Paste on Canvas – 1 Watercolor, 1 Acrylic with Watercolor
I don’t have a favorite yet between the two above paintings-in-progress, though I love certain things about each one ❤️ First, in the vertical upper top painting above, the acrylic greens over the varying red shades of watercolor shimmer and stain and reveal the uneven watercolor coat in surprising ways; possibly also because of the…
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September 03, 2021 – 2nd Week Most Viewed Image For the Week @FineArtAmerica, “ala Anders Zorn, Woman Dressing” : #Watercolor on Absorbent Ground on Canvas Panel #ContemporaryImpressionism
My small 5×7 impressionist copy, “ala Anders Zorn, Woman Dressing” captured the highest number of views for the week for a 2nd week! And with a relatively hefty leader over those ranking right below it (vs my own images). [note: this post also includes a discussion about Contemporary Impressionism]
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August 27, 2021 – Another New Most Viewed Image For the Week @FineArtAmerica, “ala Anders Zorn, Woman Dressing” : (again) a #Watercolor on Absorbent Ground on Canvas Panel #ContemporaryImpressionism
Despite only having been uploaded to my Fine Art America site for one day, my small 5×7 impressionist copy, “ala Anders Zorn, Woman Dressing” captured the highest number of views for the week! My recent post, “Delivering New Art to the Old Bakery and Emporium (across from the State Capital) Austin, Texas – ala Anders…
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August 23, 2021 – Delivering New Art to the Old Bakery and Emporium (across from the State Capital) Austin, Texas – ala Anders Zorn, Woman Dressing
Like my recently sold small 5×7 watercolor, “ala Monet, Girl with Umbrella” at the Old Bakery, this new work – “ala Anders Zorn, Woman Dressing” is also my own rendition of another older artist’s work, is 5×7 on canvas coated with Golden’s Absorbent Ground, and will also be for sale at the Old Bakery 😊…
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August 18, 2021 – Another New (but related) Most Viewed Image For the Week @FineArtAmerica, “Testing the Water” : #Acrylic on Light Molding Paste on Canvas #ContemporaryImpressionism
For nearly two months now, my more recent softer original watercolors and now an acrylic along the same style have been my most seen images of mine on my site at Fine Art America! Plus figure art work has dominated all but one of those 7 weeks 😊
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August 10, 2021 – My Newest Art Upload @FineArtAmerica – Testing the Water (Acrylic on Canvas)
Several things went into making this one of my favored positive-surprise results: 1. Golden’s Light Molding Paste, which itself allowed several things a. creation of a descriptive molding directing movement and form b. an absorption surface that allowed my use of watered down acrylics which gave me my currently-favored look – watercolors c. and least…
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August 08, 2021 – Working a New 16×20 Acrylic, “Testing the Water” : Basically Complete
I’m pretty sure this will be the finished painting, but gonna let it sit just a bit, then if so, if the photo’d image shot of Testing the Water shows well when the edges are straightened out etc in Affinity Photo and I can upload it to Fine Art America, then I can fairly safely…
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August 05, 2021 – Working a New 16×20 Acrylic, Working Title : Testing the Water, Enhancing the Landscape
This doesn’t portray the current stage of my new painting as well as it should. I probably took the pic too late in the day; the texture is stronger than I see it and the colors more subdued, but I figured, time being what it is right now (concerns with my mom, having the 8…
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August 03, 2021 – Working a New 16×20 Acrylic, Working Title : Testing the Water, Refining the Figure, Developing the Background
I wanted to do more on this but things are happening re Covid, in my life. I’ll have more on this very soon – nothing w/me or family here in Austin (despite horrid #s lately), but nearby, also here in Texas. Wonderful how fluid and flexible art is, giving us challenges one day, inspiration on…
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August 02, 2021 – Prepping a New 16×20 Acrylic, Working Title : Testing the Water, 1st Figure Lay-in
I included my most recent updated image from a post a few days ago further below. Besides the figure work (not yet complete), you can see where I continued to rework the area around the figure, setting her off more completely.
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July 31, 2021 – Prepping a New 16×20 Acrylic, Working Title : Testing the Water
The initial goal was to simply select and mark the area for my figure. Then I freely applied Golden’s light molding paste, leaving the selected area for my figure much more level, and forming the paste into potentially vegetative designs as inspiration and malleable ground meshed —
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July 03, 2021 – When is a Title a Gimmick and When is it Just Right? Example: Summer is a Lady
Those who may be new to my site here may be asking, “so what’s the gimmick in that title?” 😊 Those who do frequent my site will probably recall this work below, Spring is a Lady —
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May 05, 2021 – Lady in Paris 1889, My Newest #AcrylicPainting Upload @FineArtAmerica
* I began Lady in Paris 1889 in July last year, nearly a year ago now, and am glad to say I reached a resolution of how I wanted it to look, or more to the point, how I wanted it to feel, and finally uploaded it to Fine Art America yesterday ♥️
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April 26, 2021 – My Most Viewed Image This Week @FineArtAmerica, Abstract Detail 2 Faith in a Safe Return (2nd Week!)
“There’s two nice things I can think of right off having Abstract Detail 2 Faith in a Safe Return repeat as my most viewed image on Fine Art America….”
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April 19, 2021 – My Most Viewed Image This Week @FineArtAmerica, Abstract Detail 2 Faith in a Safe Return
“…it’s kinda nice Abstract Detail 2 Faith in a Safe Return turned out to be my most viewed image on Fine Art America last week! ♥️ The title itself is apropos – suggesting faith in safely, happily completing our new move! 😊 ”
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April 15, 2021 – Abstract Detail 2 Faith in a Safe Return, My Newest #DigitalArt Upload @FineArtAmerica
“Though not a detail abstract, where the originating image is otherwise unknown, this is a tight cropping round the female figure in the original small 5×7 watercolor on canvas panel”
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March 25, 2021 – My Most Viewed Image This Week @FineArtAmerica, Gift Writing, “Jogger”
Jogger is my newest “most viewed” for a one week period at Fine Art America!
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March 09, 2021 – Spring is a Lady, My Newest Upload @FineArtAmerica
Like, A Blush of Spring, Spring is a Lady is painted with Arteza’s watercolor Real Brush Pens on Canson 140 lb watercolor paper. But Spring is a Lady is also like Floating Butterfly in that it’s a pen and ink with watercolor wash, the pen and ink coming via my Faber Castell Pitt Artist pens,…
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January 17, 2021 – Selling 3 Small Originals at Buda Mercantile! Part 1
Today was a good day for my 1st day back this year with my art at Buda Mercantile.
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Adan’s Newest Digital Image Upload to Fine Art America – Paris Dreams Digital Rendition (Uploaded 12.14.20)
“Like my other newest companion series I’ve begun this past week, Adan’s Newest Art Upload to Fine Art America, this series, Adan’s Newest Digital Image Upload to Fine Art America, begins with my most current upload to Fine Art America – Paris Dreams Digital Rendition.”
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Adan’s Newest Art Upload to Fine Art America – Paris Dreams (Watercolor on Absorbent Ground) Uploaded 12.11.20
Paris Dreams is an early result of beginning with a color that appealed to how I felt that day, violet, applied abstractly, then give another stab at developing a figure.
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My Most Recent Watercolor Art Work – Sept / Oct 2020 in 3 Videos
“It’s been awhile since I’ve done an art post, having been doing a mini Election 2020 series, but I have continued painting — a nice group of smaller (5×7 & 8×10) watercolors on panels and stretched canvas.”
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Awash in Dreams – One Painting, Four Digital Variations
“Sometimes I spend a lot of time debating which variations to keep, which to toss, I come up with, from any one of my originals. This time around the process just seemed to slip by without as much stutter and hesitation – much the way this painting came about.“
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – The Earth is a Garden: My Most Viewed Image this Week @FineArtAmerica June 2020
I’ve been uploading my paintings since starting watercoloring (late Dec ‘19) recently by completed progression, with The Earth is a Garden one of the more recent. It’s a very pleasant surprise seeing it garnish this much attention vs some of the others I thought my be stronger received. One really never knows, which is just…
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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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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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U.S. Veterans Art Show – Last Day at Austin Art Space
The exhibition will be at the Austin Art Space Gallery, ( via AVAA ) 7739 Northcross Dr., Suite Q, Austin, TX 78757. Attendance is free. Art Space Gallery hours are Fridays and Saturdays, 11-5 p.m. Last exhibit date is December 01, 2018. For more information about the show, please contact chrisvanloan@yahoo.com/512-653-0073 Art work above is by Felipe…































