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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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My Return to Regular Pricing @FineArtAmerica July 2020
It’s been a few months since I started my $1 pricing markup experiment on Fine Art America. It was a worthwhile experiment, where I was hoping to generate more interest in my work in general, plus rack up a few low profit but visibility expanding sales 😊
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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 – During Covid-19 – Update with SilverSneakers Stability Class at Gold’s Gym with Curt Holland
Last week I post a more in-depth post, pictures & info, of the SilverSneakers Stability class Sheila and I take with Curt Holland at Gold’s Gym here in Austin, promising to update with a shot I thought I’d taken but, well, didn’t take, lol! That’s the shot above 😊
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Adan’s Movie/Cable TV Reviews – “Midnight in Paris” Viewed a Decade Later – Better Than I’d Realized – 5 Stars +
Yet, familiar as it was, watching it again yesterday, half in the afternoon, the other half before bed (yeah, a luxury of both staying-home and being retired ❤️), remembering how enchanted we’d been seeing this together, ten years ago – it was like it was brand new again!
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Aging Gracefully – Through Covid-19 – Sold My 1st Face Mask, a Paris Mask! @FineArtAmerica!
A quick post to announce & celebrate selling my first face mask! Special thanks to my buyer in Ohio! ❤️
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Happy 4th of July 2020! 🇺🇸
We will surely make it through these times as we have other pandemics, wars, and establishing and keeping our democratic republic ❤️ Below are several sayings I feel go to the core of my feelings about our country, America 💕
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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 – SilverSneakers Stability Class at Gold’s Gym with Curt Holland
Recently I uploaded a SilverSneakers stability class post, talked a little about how good the class was, both in terms of social distancing and the instructor, but hadn’t been able to get some pics – but now I have! 😊
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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 – Gardening our Balcony: Bird on Camera! ❤️
Just a very quick update post w/pics Sheila caught of one of her suitors, uh, bird visitors 😊
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – Gardening our Balcony: New Bird Bath and Feeder 🐦 😊
Some things are old, some new, some we got, some either our son or youngest girl and the grandson’ve given us, but nature accommodates most things in the wild, and luckily, so far, on our balcony 😊
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – SilverSneakers Stability Class at Gold’s Gym Austin
1st Live Stability Class Since March! 🤸♀️ Well, ok, we didn’t do any handstands, lol! But Sheila and I did go to our first stability class since at least early March, if not late February on Monday morning!
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Adan’s Movie/Cable TV Reviews – Acorn TV – The Brokenwood Mysteries – ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ (so far 😊)
Quickly becoming one of our favorite shows to binge on during Covid-19, it’s also becoming evident this series, The Brokenwood Mysteries, is so good, we’d watch it regularly anyway, lol! One of two shows set in New Zealand on Acorn TV via Amazon Prime, the other being 800 Words (another growing favorite, even if not…
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Aging Gracefully – During Covid-19 – Coping with Changes: Masks, Fitness, Entertainment
Just a quick recap of things going on in our lives here in Austin as Sheila and I continue to adjust, adapt, and age through the changes created & necessitated by Covid-19.
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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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New Watercolor Upload to Fine Art America – Fall Color 1, June 2020
It only took me forever to finally post this, actually a few days, but feels like “way” longer, lol! I started it, a simple posting, assuming “no big deal” but got waylaid by a heat index of 118 yesterday, sandwiched by rare Austin summer days to actually walk more than just at daybreak 😊 But…
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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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New Uploads to Fine Art America – Monarch and Starburst Bloom, June 2020 🎨 👩🎨
Finally forcing myself to start updating my original paintings catalog of works on Fine Art America, lol! Many, like Starburst Bloom, are in both my general painting gallery and my floral gallery, which itself includes both photography and art work.
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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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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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At Rest With Nature – New Watercolor on Absorbent Ground, May 2020
At Peace With Nature has several firsts for me. One, it’s a 5×7 stretched canvas, another size like my recent 6×12, A Walk Among the Wildflowers, I haven’t done in quite awhile, certainly even further back by maybe even decades, lol! It’s an interesting size, being small, yet enabling and enhancing the sense of length…
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 26, 2020 – Be Kitschig RePost
Photo Lessons for Dummies by BE KITSCHIG is a superb humor laden look at the all too common pitfalls and inadvertent mistakes we all non-professionals make with our cameras 😂
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A Walk Among the WildFlowers – New Watercolor on Absorbent Ground, May 2020
As one can tell by my photo below, I took a few liberties, but to some extent, that happens whether I plan it or not, lol 😂 But I like the result too much to alter anything on it. Another version, another time, will elicit a different response, and I do think this is one…
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Covid-19 Visit to Lady Bird Wildflower Center May 2020 💐
First trip I can think of for Sheila & myself, much less with Max, since maybe pre-Covid! 💕 Short, less than 2 hours, and less than 15 minutes from home, but what a treat! 😊
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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 12, 2020 – Social Distancing
Besides painting and finalizing details for renewing our current rental lease into early spring, we also got to spend a truly lovely afternoon social distant visiting with the youngest girl, her husband, and of course the 7 year old ❤️
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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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Aging Through Covid-19, April 24, 2020 – 1st Butterfly Spotting
Butterfly spotting! It was only one, one tiny one, but it was heart warmingly welcome, even the near 100 degree heat today. All records highs fell in the various weather stations.
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 23, 2020 – Chinese White Art Paint
The short post packs a lot of interesting history about its development as a color, including an impressive list of artists “way” back who 1st starting using it 😊
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 22, 2020 – Earth Day
The day itself was mostly drizzly-rainy but nice cool vs 90+ degrees a few days ago (90s coming again very soon), but then the sky semi-cleared with gorgeous breaks, almost fissures, among the clouds.
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 20, 2020 – Downtown Austin During Closures
Here’s a link and sample of my son Philip’s pictures of downtown Austin taken very recently. He used to live in a high rise downtown but has a nice place nearby now.
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My Most Viewed Images @FineArtAmerica 2nd Week April 2020 😊
There’s a few thing especially nice about this past week’s most viewed images on Fine Art America, probably the variety styles and date range (when uploaded or from what year originally) being the most satisfying — Volleyball Setter, Little Step Poster, Good Morning Bird Poster 😊
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 19, 2020 – Staying Fit with Walking, Protein and Sleep
Within the growing info getting my attention re the value of walking and stretching and sleep, three pieces of the puzzle have merged into more concrete actionable time on my part —
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 18, 2020 – Sold a Vermont Image on Fine Art America
Sold a print on Fine Art America! 😊 My sincere thanks to my buyer in Buffalo, New York! It’s a small but big welcome bit of news ❤️ And, this purchase benefited from my new one dollar markup on all size prints and gift items, on ALL my images on Fine Art America – yes!
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Thoughts On My New One Dollar Markup Pricing @FineArtAmerica 💵 😊
Earlier this week I posted about new pricing for both all my prints and gift items plus two of my licensing tiers for my images, both at Fine Art America! 😊 Virtual friends left comments and contacted me and offered a gamut of encouragements, alternative suggestions, and general goodwill for a fellow artist struggling during…
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 16, 2020 – New Watercolor Still Life
More 6×6 watercolor with gouache painting, still life 🎨 Had thought I’d just be doing a hi-bye quick post tonight, Sheila’s been have one of her rare vertigo days, and we took it real easy through out the day. But I did touch up the other small watercolor with gouache I mentioned in yesterdays post…
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 15, 2020 – New Watercolor Figure Art
“… this is my 1st completed work on black absorbent ground, and, using white gouache, which is water based like watercolors, and I’ve several things I “think” I’m seeing using both, especially against the dark background.”
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Updating My Pricing @FineArtAmerica Includes My Licensing Offers 💵 😊
I’ve now also adjusted my licensing pricing, switching from the more expensive Getty model to the less pricey Shutterstock model. These cover both one time use and extended use licensing.
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