Creativity
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.6.1
“‘See you at the show,’ he whisper-read, quietly remembering why he needed to shave.“
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.5.1
“In that instant, from the words of a kind stranger, Arturo made a decision.”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.4.2
“Anna pranced, arms alternating up into the air in pure play, unaware how beautifully she danced.”
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My Art and Photography are in Good Company at Fine Art America!
“Just a short post with some links for a special promotion Fine Art America has created for artists and photographers selling their work on the FAA site.”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.4.1
“Arturo was staring at a small ridge of blue-green paint….”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.3.2
“Arturo leaned forward a few more inches, closing off their conversation from those around them….”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.3.1
“Though they had just met that week, he liked the glint and glimmer her eye. He feared losing momentum….”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.2.3
“The image itself, when nearly done, Arturo had always felt, lived in the light.”
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Aging Through Covid-19, July 16, 2020 – Contemplations During the Virus Upsurge in Austin
Been a Bit Since I’ve Posted Much Anything About Our Covid-19 adjustments and challenges, my wife and I have just continued to clatter down the road of time, grabbing and doing the things we’re still able and allowed to do like two kids walking home from elementary school 😊
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.2.2
“Arturo…let the wind’s whispers speak light whistles….”
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Milestone @FineArtAmerica July 2020 – 1,000,000 Views of My Art and Photography!
I can only humbly say – Thank you! – to everyone who’s stopped by, sometimes commenting, and enjoyed viewing my work! Plus a special gratefulness to all my buyers and licensing agents since my joining Fine Art America and posting my art and photography in early 2016! Please continue to enjoy visiting, please continue to…
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.2.1
“These were the moments Arturo felt a visitor to his own work….”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.1.2
“Colors and textures. Shapes that softly glow….”
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The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number I.1.1
“Maybe now, in my sixties, he thought, my days are like weeks now….”
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The Old American Artist by Felipe Adan Lerma – Twitter Excerpt Series
Looking back at older work, like my 80s acrylics or 2000s water soluble oils, can be lots of things : sobering 😂 and, when I spot patterns of motifs or preferences in my work, very helpful for me, enabling me to see enduring patterns of interests. The same, it turns out, even with its own…
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Aging Gracefully – Through Covid-19 – New Paris Painting In-Progress: Lady in Paris 1889, Details One Week Apart
I’ve worked on Lady in Paris 1889 in-between some smaller watercolor (vs acrylic pieces), though a lot of the new touches to this work have been watercolor paint w/matte acrylic medium, basically making it an acrylic, but with some watercolor features, like the particular pigments I really wanted to use 😊
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Aging Gracefully – Through Covid-19 – New Paris Paintings In-Progress: Lady in Paris 1889, Paris Arm Chair View
New Paris Paintings I want to have been finished with these two, lol! But they’ve needed little touches. The larger piece (20×20), Lady in Paris 1889, a true acrylic watercolor mix (a little more on that below) has needed tiny tiny touches to “unflatten” it so to speak. While the smaller 6×6 piece has needed…
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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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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – My Paintings on Fine Art America
It’s a tough switch for me, picking up brush with paint vs picking up a camera. Switching from the exactness of line and light captured (even if framed by my eye) by a machine, exquisite as it is — to the amorphous shifting intangible (even if more powerfully felt) world inside me.
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – A New Series, Serial Series’
Am I a Serial Serialist, lol? 😊 Since “way” back, I’ve tried to create a series I can stick with, and obviously, didn’t. The topic would run out of juice. Or more accurately, I would. It was time for me to switch gears to another creative avenue, the way I switch art styles to stay…
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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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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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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 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 02, 2020 – 109 Year Old Texas Survivor of the 1918 Pandemic Remembers
…a remarkable pandemic survivor’s story! Only, she’s a survivor of the 1918 Flu Pandemic!
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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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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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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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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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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 5 – Place Saint Michel Paris, Photography circa 2012
From archival prints to yoga mats and coffee mugs, see it all here – https://felipeadan-lerma.pixels.com/featured/place-saint-michel-felipe-adan-lerma.html .
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2nd Progress Update Working with Golden Absorbent Ground and Fineline Masking Fluid, on Violet Blooms 02.11.20
“Over all I feel my realizations and near misses, design-wise, outweigh my mistakes and the very real possibility this will become a “conversation learning-piece” work vs anything I can call finished and available for sale. I’m hoping I’m wrong about that last part, and find a way to finish it 😊 Very briefly, these are…
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Adan’s Product Reviews on Amazon – Spectrafix Non-Toxic Fixative Spray for Watercolor (Flowering at Dawn)
“I’ve been experimenting with absorbent ground on 6×6 inch canvases lately and this is probably #6 or 7 in the batch. Brush on isolation layers worked on all the previous pictures til I reached the first one with gouache, ruined it! So, if I was to continue to be able to do pieces like this…
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Sold! Bird’s Eye View! My 1st 6×6 Absorbent Ground Watercolor Acrylic!
News of my 1st watercolor 6×6’s successful delivery to my buyer in Florida was my highlight for a very busy day of painting (very briefly), going to the Old Bakery (getting an offer), and having the youngest girl and the grandson Max coming by ❤️
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Adan’s Product Reviews on Amazon – Watercolour Flower Painting Workshop (Collins Painting Workshop) by Hazel Soan (Book, Paper Edition)
“Just beginning to use watercolors, and having seen Hazel Soan’s watercolor video on Prime Video, I knew I wanted one of her books. Though an older work, 1999 I believe, the information and images are timeless. The images themselves are stunning, stopped my wife in her tracks when I was browsing through the book 😊”
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Progress Update Working with Golden Absorbent Ground and Fineline Masking Fluid, on The First Snow 01.25.20
“Later, once the piece is done, the gloss isolation layer and matte varnish will have to protect paint and masking fluid. The glossy isolation layer preserves the colors, and the clear matte varnish protects against dust etc, but restores the surface feel and matte finish of the completed work – as I found out via…
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