Arts Area
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 14, 2020 – Wearing Masks
Wearing masks in Austin starts (officially) today Just a few days after seeing close to 90% of the folks at a local supermarket not wearing masks, not donning gloves, and generally putting their phones and other items on the fresh produce, the City of Austin has issued an order for all folks to wear masks…
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 13, 2020 – Social Distancing with Grandson
Shaking up my art offers 🎨 Today, the first full day not taking antibiotics in two weeks – I changed my pricing on all my prints and gift items, plus my licensing offers – all the items I have control over at Fine Art America!!!
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 11, 2020 – Ruminations on a Slow Saturday
Ruminations for a slow Saturday Well, I’ve been wanting to slow down, and today I did (slow as I already was going, lol! 😂)
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 09, 2020 – New Watercolor Figure Art
it was a really good opportunity to find an image I liked, and reproduce it in my own style, picking up pointers so to speak by virtue of simply studying the image to be able to transcribe it!
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 07, 2020 – Happy Birthday, Mom!
“A team of University of Vermont scientists, engineers and doctors has created an inexpensive and quick-to-manufacture ventilator intended to help patients suffering from serious cases…“
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 06, 2020 – Delivering Food to Children
This one’s straight from here in the United States, in Mississippi. We’ve friends from that nearby part of the world, and I had interesting drive-through experience while in the Air Force driving from NW Florida to home, but that’s another story 😊
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Aging Through Covid-19, April 03, 2020 – New Watercolor Figure Art
Hi everyone! Further below I finally got the time to take a quick pic of some new 6×6 watercolor work I’m doing I’m liking very much, especially in terms of establishing a new direction.
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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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Closed my eBay Listings, For Now 03.11.20
In my continuing effort to grapple with getting a handle on my time, combined with the fees and lack of sales, I’ve suspended my listings on eBay for now. To be fair, due to time choices, I didn’t do as much advertising and social media as I could have, at least without taking more time…
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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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My Three Latest Art and Photo Uploads to Fine Art America 😊
“…these are my three most recent uploads to my site on Fine Art America. I’d wanted to do more, more frequently, and post about each one, but as I pointed out in my most recent post, time and other priorities took the lead, and their toll…Still, this has worked out to really show my creative…
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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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Painting Update – My Lost Edges and Masking Fluid Ideas 02.18.20
This weekend, I reblogged two really interesting articles on the aesthetic or idea of employing lost edges, where the boundaries of given recognizable objects meld into the color space around it (side plane, background, etc). I’d already haphazardly begun working with the idea, wondering if I was off-base to even be considering it, when I…
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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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Adan’s Movie/Cable TV Reviews – “Howard’s End” – Outstanding Beyond Expectation! – ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
“I’m still processing the details of why and how this particular production via Masterpiece has stuck with both myself and my wife so strongly. There was no doubt, by the end of Episode 1 (of 4), I very much wanted to watch this….”
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Ridges of Spring Light – New 6×6 Watercolor Acrylic Upload on Fine Art America
“It was my 2nd almost literally stab at slipping watercolor onto one of my new absorbent ground 6×6 inch canvases. My 1st try, Bird’s Eye View (now sold), was more cautious, although that’s relatively speaking, lol!”
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New Love (poetry) by Regina Puckett 💞
“New love has a scent of its own…” 💕
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Super Bowl Sunday Sunset 02.02.2020
“I didn’t watch the game this year, but I did take a much needed walk, saw the clouds pull a blanket over our weekend of blue skies, and caught the image at top at last light. Not bad 😊 Hope everyone’s a winner in their best way – happy super bowl on what Sheila says…
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Bird’s Eye View circa 2020 Watercolor-Acrylic ❤️ Adan’s PhotoPoems 💕
My Bird’s Eye View buyer in Florida told me, once they saw the original painting, that the feeling “happiness” came to them. In tribute to this wonderful unexpected and deeply appreciated gift of thought, I’ve written this small PhotoPoem for my painting ❤️
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Bird’s Eye View – My First Sale Delivered by USPS and (Good) Things I Learned 👨🎤
“Though I used a small box of my own, I did find out quite a bit of very useful information at the post office about my Priority Rate options.“
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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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Progress Update Working with Golden Absorbent Ground and Fineline Masking Fluid, on Violet Blooms 01.24.20
“Turns out this method (for me) is also not 100% foolproof, at least in regard to getting the right areas masked, etc. But I really think this is more to do with a learning curve, both in regard to watercolor choices in general, and using masking fluid for and with those choices.”
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7 Expert Tricks To Improve Your Author Newsletter | David Gaughran
“There is so much more you can do with author newsletter these days beyond simply telling your fans that you have a new book.”
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Autumn Friends circa 1986 Acrylic ❤️ Adan’s PhotoPoems 💕
PhotoPoem sayings 💕 Autumn Friends circa 1986 Acrylic – “We are mirrors…”
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On the Way to the Cantina by Tiffany Arp Daleo 😊
“She often writes that she paints intuitively, from the heart, finding any suggestion of image within her process itself, an amazing feat I “sometimes” feel I pull off 😏 ”
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In the Egg # 2 by Francisco Bravo Cabrera
Francisco is an exceptionally prolific artist, with work that ranges from lush to whimsical or elegant.
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Villa Ladera – Private Hillside Escape * Pura Vida in Costa Rica! ❤️
“…absolutely gorgeous, with 3 bedrooms- all with their own huge bathroom and shower! The sparkling pool and the seating area is just perfect for grilling and hanging out. And the location??!! ITS a 1 MINUTE WALK TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BEACH AND DOZENS OF WONDERFUL RESTAURANTS!”
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Adan’s Product Reviews on Amazon – Golden’s Clear Tar Gel – Messy, Tricky, and Wonderful Results! 😊
“I was “very” hesitant to try Clear Tar Gel out, but had gotten to a point with a small acrylic work where either I chunked it, or tried this. I just hadn’t been able to keep the look I created when wet, no matter how much glaze medium & such I used; mostly in regard…
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Adan’s Movie/Cable TV Reviews – “Knives Out” – a Charmer with Daniel Craig+++ 😊
“I left the theatre and spent the evening wondering if my obsession that Knives Out was a grand modernized tribute to Agatha Christie was just my imagination, and my limited exposure to the wide variety of mystery niches in books and film.”
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Foggy Monday, Foggy Week (they say 😊) – Time For Art & a Movie! 01.14.20
“Hi everyone! All the Austin weather folk have us boxed in with fog. Good thing Sheila & I took advantage of this past weekend’s unbelievably nice weather 😊 But the change in weather hasn’t slowed us down much, lol!”
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Adan’s Product Reviews on Amazon – Woolley’s Watercolour Episode 9 Line & Wash – The Perfect Combination, with Peter Woolley (Amazon Prime)
“What I particularly liked about Peter’s presentation of creating with line and and wash in watercolor (beyond finding out the basics to begin with) is how he presented the exploration of the topic to the me, the viewer.”
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Catching Up the Weekend 01.12.20
“Hi everyone, just a quick note. Haven’t been able to post this weekend like I’d like ‘cause, well, simply put, I had to choose between posting and being able to take advantage of a rare beauty of a weekend here in Austin with family and art projects 😊 ”
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Favorites Images of 2019: A Retrospective | Richard Bernabe
“ Expect the unexpected might be a tired cliché but that doesn’t make it any less true, particularly with regard to travel. Planning is admirable and always recommended but you should also assume that most of your plans will eventually be replaced by improvisation and gut instinct.”
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My Most Recently Uploaded Image Onto Fine Art America, Birds Eye View 6×6 Acrylic Watercolor #1 😊
“In effect I chose to experiment with what still seems an incredible new world of opportunity for me, over trying to force the developing image into what I thought I wanted to begin with – before I saw what was possible.”
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How to Create a Mixed Absorbency Surface for Painting – Nancy Reyner
Nancy Reyner paints exotic versions of heaven, using gold leaf and other unusual materials. A contemporary abstract painter, she feels art is a rewarding pursuit that adds quality of life.
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My Yesterday in Pictures for, Jan 06, 2020 – Applying Liquid Masking on Absorbent Ground 👨🎤
My Yesterday in Pictures – Jan 06, 2020 – 1st try using liquid masking on absorbent ground! Step 1.
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My Day Ahead – Jan 06, 2020 SilverSneakers Stability Class 🏃♀️ Groceries 🍎 Art 🎨
My daily updates on goings on in my life re family, fitness, the arts, and blogging 😊 today: SilverSneakers / Acrylic washes on paintings
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Adan’s Product Reviews on Amazon – Learn Watercolour Quickly with Hazel Soan (Amazon Prime)
“This is one of those rare instructional works that gave me the sensation of wanting to savor it, lol! Delicious in the colors and nuances of creating art!”
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My Yesterday in Pictures for, Jan 01 – 03 2020 😊 Art, the Old Bakery & Emporium, and Grandchildren 💕
My Yesterday in Pictures – Jan 01-03, 2020 😊 Art, the Old Bakery & Emporium, Grandchild & I learning about tracing/transfer paper 😂
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