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My Meditation & Art – Synergy, Or Coincidence Redux? 😊
Einstein’s said to have said, “The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
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ReBlog ReDirect – to Artist Tiffany Arp-Daleo’s Post, “TVC15” 😊
“Tiffany Arp-Daleo is a self-taught artist from San Diego, CA. Painting for over 20 years, she has developed a unique painting style described as Bohemian Abstract. Her paintings will catch your eye with bold contrast, gobs of rich color, and layers of texture.”
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Meditation: Am I Doing It Yet? Part 1 — “who defines meditation?”
“This is a full repost not a reblog of my 2011 blog post…The reason I’ve decided on a full repost is to bring it to the fore, as some of these questions then came up to me again during the early days of recovery from my 2nd surgery.”
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Today’s My Surgery – But I’ve Restocked My Art at Old Bakery & Emporium 😊
“What a treat to restock some of my prints before my surgery – yay!“
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What Should I Do Right Before My Surgery? Fix Up My Art Room!! 😊
“If my recovery from tomorrow’s hiatal surgery trails (as per the Dr’s) slightly longer than my emergency gallbladder surgery from the end of June, it’ll be early to mid November before I feel as able and wanting to do things as right now – sounds, with my wife’s help…”
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White Blue Cluster Floral Among My Top Pins On Pinterest Again 2nd Week of August 2019 – Time to Make a Poster! 😊
“Today, literally as I was finalizing formatting the posters I’d shown on my previous article, I got my weekly reminder from Pinterest and was again reminded how useful this little email from them can be for me.”
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At the Old Bakery & Emporium – 1st Volunteer Work Shift Since My Surgery – The Preponderance of Wonderful Paintings & Photos Has Me Thinking…
“…looking at my memories in pigment, my remembrances in pixels – I realize I need to do something more with my images.“
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Adan’s Book Reviews – The Quick Guide to WordPress and Pinterest : Out-of-Date and STILL 4 Stars 😊
…my recommendation is, if you’re a Pinterest user, but a user-beginner like me, and, since there were things I wasn’t even aware of, or up to date on myself, is – esp since it’s free! – grab a copy, and see what you already know and what you might not had thought was possible just…
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Aging Gracefully – A Creative History : My Blog Feb 2011 – Jul 2019 😊
“…the only thing I fully realize right now is how much more I can learn if I want or need to. And with all the ideas I keep having, and all the social media opps available today, that should be fun!”
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My Top Pins On Pinterest This Week! Who Knew! Well, Now I do, lol 😂
I guess the time has come – even if slowly, I still have med procedures & recovery through the next few months – to learn what I can do with Pinterest.
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Print Sold! @FineArtAmerica – Austin Autumn Colors at Barton Springs Zilker Park circa 2007 😊
“Autumn Colors Pedestrian Bridge” was painted in the mid-2000’s following a very unusual two year pattern of exceptional fall foliage here in Austin. Every day for about a week in November each of the two years, I’d get off work an hour early and head out to Barton Springs Road Bridge and take pictures of…
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Surprise Print Sale at the Old Bakery & Emporium Austin Texas 😊
Luckily the six year old was playing hide and seek with his two grandmas and I had a few minutes to enjoy a little art chat. Plus, Debbie asked if I would take a photo with my print with Myles in front of my original. That rivaled the ice cream treat that family and I’d…
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Adan’s eBay Art – Yellow Blooms Coral Accent, My Most Viewed Image @FineArtAmerica Last Week 😊
“I had to both decide to accept I liked what I’d created despite nagging voices within me saying it wasn’t good enough — and — stop myself from ‘over creating’ and ruining the work!”
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Summer Art Reception Fun at Art for the People Gallery Austin 😊
Very pleased to drop off “Cobblestone Path Home” for the summer / September show at Art for the People gallery on South 1st Street here in Austin! – new blog post from Felipe Adan Lerma .
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Adan’s eBay Art – New Painting Available : Dancing Flower
“As chronicled my prev two posts, I ran into a self-imposed snag when I realized — felt? accepted? woke up to? — the work I first wanted to list on eBay, Peace Among the Mist, just wasn’t ready.“
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Update to: Adan’s eBay Art – Construction Improvement 4 My Next Piece = Slight Delay 4 New Picture 😊
Originally posted on © Felipe Adan Lerma – All Rights Reserved – Blogging at WordPress Since 2011 :): Prior to new paint today. After new paint today. What Happened Basically, the convergence of my being ill recently, which extended completing our recent move a bit, and seeing my proposed next eBay art offering for the…
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Adan’s eBay Art – Construction Improvement 4 My Next Piece = Slight Delay 4 New Picture 😊
“…the convergence of my being ill recently, which extended completing our recent move a bit, and seeing my proposed next eBay art offering for the first time in months in good light — all got me scooping paint from a tube with a thin palette knife and reworking, ‘Peace Among the Mist.;”
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Fun at the Old Bakery & Emporium Consignors’ 2019 Art Reception 😊
Today’s post is mostly filled with fun pics from last night’s art reception at OBE, the Old Bakery & Emporium! An Important Note First Due to a maintenance schedule change, OBE will be closed the 2nd week of July vs the 3rd, and will thus be closed July 7-15 and reopen Tuesday July 16, 2019…
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I Wanna Win! 😊 – Fine Art America’s July 2019 Billboard Contest 💥
Together, these three images – a BW photograph from Paris, an oil painting of Vermont, and a color photo of Austin – represent both the visual mediums I prefer to create, and, the three places I’ve lived or stayed in extended time that mean most to me.
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Adan’s eBay Art – Changing From Auctions to Set Listings With a Make-An-Offer Option 😊
This format, the fixed price – but – with a nifty make-an-offer option — allows me to start listing the work I’d like to offer w/out worrying about deadlines to remove a work of art to make room!
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Adan’s Art – Auction #2 – The Bird Bath – Is Live! 😊
My first auction on eBay, ends Sunday, June 23, 2019 at 9am central standard time.
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Delivering My Painting to Art for the People Gallery Austin
Very pleased to drop off “Cobblestone Path Home” for the summer / September show at Art for the People gallery on South 1st Street here in Austin! – new blog post from Felipe Adan Lerma .
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Adan’s Art – 2 New Trends Developing : Limited Editions and Auction Sales of Older Work! – Update 1, Unpacking Art to Auction Soon
Art Auction items — there are seven items I’ve decided will help me make this happen….1. Action smaller works first….
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Adan’s Art – 2 New Trends Developing : Limited Editions and Auction Sales of Older Work!
A funny thing happened recently when my wife and I emptied a climate controlled storage area, and then opened several piles of stored boxes inside an extra room — we found paintings, plus prints of work I no longer had, from as early as the 80’s to as recently as the early 2000’s! 😊 -…
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Micro-Macro Unity, Flowers and Landscapes? — Or Am I Just Seeing Things?
“ You know that feeling, when you spot clouds that look like mountains with fog filled valleys continuing up into the sky?”
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PhotoPoem for – Dancing Flower – A Flower’s Soft Arms
*** A Flower’s Soft Arms Aromas of drifting daysshimmered among the sun’s early shifting shadowswarming a garden’s languid floral arms.The blooms’ shallow sculptures carved sunlight intovalleys, brushing eyebrows on ridges –I reached out. Stop – soft shocked. How did nature decide touching such delicate beautywould disturb the very pigments that drewbutterflies and bees and me?…
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Clues to Myself About My Latest Painting via Art Mystery Novel “Abstract Aliases” by Ritter Aimes
In “Abstract Aliases” – a mystery art thriller by Ritter Ames – Laurel Beacham, the art recovery expert protagonist has returned to London office and is quickly engulfed in strong whiffs of danger, intrigue, and – as always, in a good way – an ongoing yes/no maybe/could-be romantic involvement with a fellow art sleuth based,…
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Finding Color in the Fog – New Painting Upload, Sunrise Through the Fog
A small 8×8 inch oil completed late last year but only now been able to capture in a way I felt did it justice. The colors are laid in via glazed layers and the essence of the image changes as the light on it shifts. The original is no longer available, but prints, posters, and…
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Dancing Flower – My Newest Palette Knife Painting ; Sometimes It’s Just About Making a Choice, Choosing the Emotion :)
“Gradually I began to see I needed to choose. Did I want the flower to be almost as if in space? Bright and shiny against the background with some surrounding foliage and color? Or did I want the flower to be more immersed in its surroundings? Part of the garden?“
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Deciding When My Painting is Done, Part 4 – Discoverng and Painting a Story, Woman in Moonlight
It started like this, a textured palette knife inlay modeled on the values and inverse colors of a macro cropping of a photo of mine I really like… My reference photo, pictured below, and currently available on my Fine Art America (FAA) site, is a beautiful play of light. Eventually I’d like to try my…
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Do You Have a Favorite Word Among Your Image Titles? Apparently I do! (smiles) – “Light”
My newest Fine Art America photography and art collection – “Light” I was recently debating the title for a new nearly finished oil painting – I pretty sure I’ve settled on “Woman in Moonlight” – when I suddenly wondered how much of my photography and art I’ve titled with “Light” in the title. The answer…
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Thank You Repeat Buyer in Bradford Vermont (Nancy Griswold)! – Mountain Road Cabin And Sunrise, Stowe Vermont
Normally most artists selling their art work, prints, and gift items don’t know who’s bought something of theirs at Fine Art America, but this particular buyer, artist Nancy Griswold, contacted me and let me know.
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Deciding When My Painting is Done, Part 3 – Adding Recognizable Objects to an Abstract and Making it Work
“Probably my biggest challenge – besides knowing when the work is done and stop, and thus allowing myself to return to abstract painting after many decades – is what and how to insert something recognizable into the image: a person, or thing – animate or inanimate (sailboats, birds, a bicycle, the moon, etc).”
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Deciding When My Painting is Done, Part 2 – Stopping Myself Before I Ruin My Own Art (smiles)
My “stopping myself before I ruin my own art” sample above serves dual purpose – it was once a delicate single flower with a muted background. I tried to “enhance” the flower (I was quite happy with the background), feeling it “had” to have a certain look or finish. Maybe it did. But….
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Deciding When My Painting Is Done, Part 1 – Speaking to Myself (smiles)
Way back in the early 80s I restarted painting (after playing around with art in my late teens / early 20s (late 60s, early 70s), I mainly created abstracts and back then I would have declared this work finished before I’d added the bird. I persisted in that way, despite a supervisor I worked under…
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My 1st Art Work of 2019 – Surfing the Light, Palette Knife Painting
Palette knife painting is quickly regaining my appreciation for the type of art I can create. I first tried palette knives back in the early 80s and find a new level of pleasure returning to it! I should add, an important difference for me now vs the early 80s – besides several decades of creativity…
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Mount Mansfield, My Favorite Sunrise Photo Shoot Series of 2018 – Image Two
Dec 27, 2018 Second in my early September Mount Mansfield sunrise images from the same morning and location, I can clearly see the changes beginning to occur! Though the upper sky is slightly darker and the land below still remains in darkness, the light between those two layers is brighter. This, I began to learn…
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New palette knife painting, Birds and Sailboat in Paradise, by Adan 😊
Dec 22, 2018 New palette knife painting, Bird and Sailboat in Paradise 😊 Water soluble oil, marble dust, water mixable oil medium, 12×16 inches on stretched canvas, palette knife rendition. For creative impetus info for this image, full res samples, prints, and gifts (yoga mats etc), please visit my Fine Art America (FAA) link noted…
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Spotted Treasure – My New Butterfly Photo at Fine Art America
Spotted Treasure, an action or an object?
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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…
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Recently Sold by Felipe Adan Lerma at Fine Art America Plus New Work
Below is the text of my short Fine Art America (FAA) newsletter I sent out recently, so this is a reblogged of sorts 🙂 If you would like to subscribe to my newsletter at FAA (sent out once or twice a month at most), please sign up at – https://fineartamerica.com/subscribememberemaillist.html?memberidtype=artistid&memberid=459979 . Each of my images at FAA…
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It’s Been a Long Night of Hate, and Dawn Has Just Begun to Break
It’s Been a Long Night of Hate, and Dawn Has Just Begun to Break Image on left: Cover: One Night in the Hill Country Thriller novella, set in Texas. Immigrant and illegal children caught in a mad man’s plan to stop child abuse. Featuring former police officer Samantha (Sam) Lacroix. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MXGMN68 *** “a beginner’s view:…
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New Signed Gift Images – Texas Hill Country and Pansies
New Signed Gift Images – Texas Hill Country and Pansies Pictured Left : “Pansies” Also available: three other Texas (Austin, San Antonio) signed photo gifts, complimenting my Texas Shorts short stories. On the Amazon marketplace. *** “the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics,…
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Gifts from Texas – Original Signed Photos, Matted Mounted 8 x 10s
Gifts from Texas – Original Signed Photos, Matted Mounted 8 x 10s. Pictured Left : “Sunset Austin Texas Lady Bird Lake” One of three Texas (Austin, San Antonio) signed photo gifts, complimenting my Texas Shorts short stories. On the Amazon marketplace. *** “the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that…
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The Old American Artist, a Love Story
*** Pictured Left, “The Old American Artist, a Love Story” – First of Series A romance and an artist’s story, how could it not be a love story? 😉 Also now being priced at FREE at participating outlets. Please see link above. *** Pictured Right, Second in series, “Rosetta” now available! *** “a beginner’s view:…
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I’m a WHAT Kind of Writer! Romance? – Part 7 Conclusions
*** Pictured, “The Old American Artist, a Love Story“ A romance and an artist’s story, how could it not be a love story? 😉 We all love a story that shows how a loving pair, meeting obstacles in life, overcome that challenge, and resolve to love each other. But what happens during the “lived happily ever…
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I’m a WHAT Kind of Writer! Romance? – Part 6
*** Pictured, “The Old American Artist, a Love Story“ A romance and an artist’s story, how could it not be a love story? 😉 We all love a story that shows how a loving pair, meeting obstacles in life, overcome that challenge, and resolve to love each other. But what happens during the “lived happily ever…
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I’m a WHAT Kind of Writer! Romance? – Part 5
*** Pictured, “The Old American Artist, a Love Story“ A romance and an artist’s story, how could it not be a love story? 😉 We all love a story that shows how a loving pair, meeting obstacles in life, overcome that challenge, and resolve to love each other. But what happens during the “lived happily ever…
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I’m a WHAT Kind of Writer! Romance? – Part 4
*** Pictured, “The Old American Artist, a Love Story“ A romance and an artist’s story, how could it not be a love story? 😉 We all love a story that shows how a loving pair, meeting obstacles in life, overcome that challenge, and resolve to love each other. But what happens during the “lived happily ever…
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“Art and Yoga” – Original Arts & Yoga Poetry
*** New arts poem for 2011. Focussed on the painting process, and it’s meaning, for the me as an artist. Pictured, Everyday Inspirations, Photo-Poems Vol 3 This 2011 post updated July 19, 2019 😊 *** “the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and…
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