Creativity
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Thoughts About Making Some of My New Posters with (mat-like) Borders
“Creating digital mats for my own images also has 3 distinct pluses! 1. I can indulge my creativity w/out as much restraint. Today’s ink colors for printing art and photos far exceeds the colors of physical mats available.“
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If I’m Gonna Make Posters (among other categories of prints)…What Do You Think of These?
“I will say, having a body of photo images to go with my original art today, is a significant difference from those days when I cut my own glass, beveled my own mats, and chose my own backing – but didn’t have enough visual work, or means to print it – to do what I…
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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Adan’s Book Reviews – The Quick Guide to WordPress and Pinterest : Out-of-Date and STILL 4 Stars 😊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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Aging Gracefully – 1st Update on My Amazon Affiliate Marketing 😊
Learning where to add an unobtrusive search link is easier than I’d thought, but, changes post to post since I write for content interesting to me — mostly the arts, senior fitness, and aging gracefully.
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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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Aging Gracefully – Update on My Health & Upcoming “Tune-up” 😊
I’ve also been working on a major blog update post with “tune-up” in the title for nearly a week. I must have tune-up on the brain syndrome 😊
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101 Sports Poems – 7 Day 61% Off Sale, Day 7 Final Day! Excerpt Football 😊
“Sports is where a person can compete with oneself, and with others, with integrity and safety… “Sports is where a person can learn a great deal about themselves doing something they love… “It’s rare that integrity and fun can be found in one activity, but sports is at its best when combining the two.“
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101 Sports Poems – 7 Day 61% Off Sale, Day 6 Excerpt Marathon 😊
“Sports is where a person can compete with oneself, and with others, with integrity and safety… “Sports is where a person can learn a great deal about themselves doing something they love… “It’s rare that integrity and fun can be found in one activity, but sports is at its best when combining the two.“
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Fun Reading of Skydancer by Tania Marie DeGregorio at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Austin 😊
Yesterday’s outing to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center here in Austin to hear our youngest girl read and show her illustrated children’s book, Skydancer, to an eager group of little ones, was early enough it wasn’t yet too hot, and actually down right nice! 😊
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101 Sports Poems – 7 Day 61% Off Sale, Day 5 Excerpt Determination 😊
“Sports is where a person can compete with oneself, and with others, with integrity and safety… “Sports is where a person can learn a great deal about themselves doing something they love… “It’s rare that integrity and fun can be found in one activity, but sports is at its best when combining the two.“
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101 Sports Poems – 7 Day 61% Off Sale, Day 4 Excerpt Bicycling 😊
“Sports is where a person can compete with oneself, and with others, with integrity and safety… “Sports is where a person can learn a great deal about themselves doing something they love… “It’s rare that integrity and fun can be found in one activity, but sports is at its best when combining the two.“
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101 Sports Poems – 7 Day 61% Off Sale, Day 3 Excerpt Yoga 😊
“Sports is where a person can compete with oneself, and with others, with integrity and safety… “Sports is where a person can learn a great deal about themselves doing something they love… “It’s rare that integrity and fun can be found in one activity, but sports is at its best when combining the two.“
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101 Sports Poems – 7 Day 61% Off Sale, Day 2 Excerpt Volleyball 😊
“Sports is where a person can compete with oneself, and with others, with integrity and safety… “Sports is where a person can learn a great deal about themselves doing something they love… “It’s rare that integrity and fun can be found in one activity, but sports is at its best when combining the two.“
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101 Sports Poems – 7 Day 61% Off Sale, Day 1 Excerpt 😊
“Sports is where a person can compete with oneself, and with others, with integrity and safety… “Sports is where a person can learn a great deal about themselves doing something they love… “It’s rare that integrity and fun can be found in one activity, but sports is at its best when combining the two.“
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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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My Creative Experiment With Amazon Affiliate Marketing 😊
Remember, there’s no additional cost to you, or any potential buyer — not for my work — or any item I suggest — or any item you eventually choose to buy when you purchase by starting with one of my provided Amazon Affiliate links .
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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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Have a Great Friday & Weekend Everyone! I’m Taking a Few Days Off, Well, Kinda 😊
“…we played today and we’ll play Friday, then this weekend I’ll look again at my two poems, ‘Cross Country’ circa ’94, and ‘Accelerating Into the Curve’ circa 2012 – and the posts I’m working up for them.”
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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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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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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 4, New Post Series: Personal Use Licensing, Limited Editions, Auctions 😊
…this is what’s happening, as I figure things out, lol! — I do have 2 new trends, but they’re what have always been my main creative interests: images (Paintings & Photography) + Writings (Poetry & Fiction).
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My Blog’s New Look 😊 — Recent Comments, Top Posts, Choose Your Language, Plus Posts in Title/Image Grid!
My new WordPress theme was doing to my content what the sun and Affinity Photo – my digital program of choice – had done to my old but still much beloved floral arrangement from decades back – given it new improved life!
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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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Aging into Creativity
Historians seemed to not only survive but thrive, possibly..because as we age we tend to muse and compare and find threads in not only our own lives, but the lives of us as people, as a being onto itself — humanity.
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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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Review – TV – Blue Bloods Season 09 Episode 20
Disclaimer – I’ve been writing reviews about shows on TV, movies, books, and live performances since I wrote, “A Sudsy Cleansing For the Blues” about the movie, Car Wash back in the mid 70s while at the University of Houston Downtown…so don’t take me too seriously, but definitely count me interested, it’s the arts after…
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Aging Gracefully – Ever Feel the Need To Focus But Your Life is A Shotgun? I Do 😊
No, not really offering any solutions, more an observation 🙂 I do kinda chalk my frequent current state to aging. And yes, when I was younger, say half a century ago, lol, I had as many quality demands on my attention as now: family, all the arts ( music, painting, dancing, film, poetry, etc ),…
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A Little Fiction About the Truth I Felt in Paris 2012 – “Slumming in Paris Part 6”
The recent tragic loss in Paris at Notre Dame, and the heroic efforts that helped mitigate it, has torn at our emotions and reminded me I had sensed and seen the mettle of the French culture and people via the beauty and monuments to their past when my wife and I stayed in the Latin…
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Adan’s Gratitudes – A Little History
About my previous attempts expressing gratitudes in my life and my latest intention to do so 😊 I should emphasize too, these are my public expressions of gratitude. My private expressions, and I think we can and should all feel free to have any number we wish for ourselves, are sometimes reluctant, sometimes infrequent,…
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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 – Winged Horse in the Sky – Hoof Prints From My Soul
Hoof Prints From My Soul Cloud clumps within my heart – Reappear in paint As hoof prints from my soul – Questions and guesses – Choices – Gathered (often without knowing) through seven decades of living, As naturally as fog settling – feathered – like thread knit loosely ‘tween sky and earthYes, it’s been a…
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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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My Shadow-Selfie Feels Part of the World (smiles)
Most of my self portraits show me taking pictures or playing with one of my grandkids, or at a gallery show or enjoying a vista in Vermont and elsewhere. This image – taken on a walk through the neighborhood – caught my attention as I was crossing the street. The deep shadow, outlined yet moving…
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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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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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About the Images in My Books, Part 2 – Narrative / Illustrative Photography and Art
From early on I included my own images in small books of poetry, creating verses to illustrate what I saw and felt in the scenes, often of nature but relating to people. Also relatively early, I matched images to my travel memoirs. One small book, “Love’s Travels – Vermont, Paris, Austin”, combines my images with…
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About the Images in My Books, Part 1 – Book Covers
Jan 06, 2019 Please click links on cover images for links to the books on Amazon (universal links); & links on right-side images for their Fine Art America pages (gifts & prints). And for more of my before-and-after images-to-covers, please visit my collection of samples at Fine Art America – https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/felipeadan-lerma.html?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=712150 . It started as…
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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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Fitness Reminder on Christmas Day For Every Day
My wife and I have followed Dr. Mirkin’s site for nutrition and fitness information for many years. That he’s a senior, like us, is a big plus, though most of the information is valid for most adult ages. He just seems more cognizant of the challenges (and opportunities) afforded to us as we age (smiles).…
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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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Wanna Know About Texas? My Texas? Watch “The Son” on AMC
June 28, 2017 Images are my own, All Rights Reserved, and are offered on Fine Art America (FAA) as posters, prints, greeting cards + more. Rights Managed photo licensing is also through FAA. The Son, on AMC http://www.amc.com/shows/the-son/cast-crew I won’t pretend to know all the history or histories of all the peoples of Texas. Like…
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