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Adan’s Art – 2 New Trends Developing : Limited Editions and Auction Sales of Older Work! – Update 3, Auction #1 Is Live! 😊
My first auction on eBay, ends Sunday, June 23, 2019 at 9am central standard time.
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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 2, Choosing My 1st Limited Editions 😊
All my posted images are immediately available as Limited Editions numbered 1 to 100. Buyers may purchase any number not already claimed. I will print on demand as needed. :)
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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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#PhotoPoem with Image No. 19, Lantern in the Window, From My Multi-Generational New England Thriller “Queen”
** Lantern in the Window(breathing the light) Light passes through glass sleeves fromthe world outside, seeminglystoredinside the hourglass-like guardian calmlypatientlyawaiting the nightwhen it toowill shine, passing its lightin a breath clearly seenback through the glass. © Felipe Adan Lerma *** It’s been a few years since I wrote “Queen” and I’ve had a bit more…
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dVerse – Poets Pub, Prompt “In My Element” – my PhotoPoem entry: “A Moment of Motion”
I’m in a less than two hour deadline (cause I couldn’t get my stuff together since Tuesday to do this sooner, lol) to post this to dVerse Poets’ weekly prompt for first time in many years. I’ll update this page with much more info soon re my prev poetry posts on dVerse here on this…
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Adan’s Self Portraits, #20 – Aligned with a Half Moon Over Downtown Austin at Zilker Botanical Garden
blog excerpt, I knew right away, with the scent of flowers in the fresh air and a view of Austin’s growing skyline, I wanted a selfie with my walking stick set to that background. Zilker Botanical Garden has been described as both the jewel in the heart of Austin and as the centerpiece of Austin’s…
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PhotoPoem – Gold Light in White Rose – Color & Black and White
Similar Distinctiveness Brothers, sisters, siblings or friendsthe blackNwhite and full colorversionsshare much in their distinctions — Fluid folds of delicate strength Furrows of light from within and without Emanating Ancient mazes of petals Drawing both the eyes and the bees Yet — Each glowing easily distinctly With their own perception ofBeauty Images & Verse ©…
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Review – TV – Blacklist Season 06 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 all *…
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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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38 Years With Sheila – Happy Anniversary! ❤️ 💜 💕
From my wife Sheila today on FB smile — Happy 38th Anniversary Adan! My loving companion on life’s journey. We’ve shared so many experiences, made so many memories in so many places..Vermont, Costa Rica, Paris, Acapulco, Boston, New York, Chicago, all over Texas, to name a few! Wonder what’s around that next curve in the…
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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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Spring Sunset Austin Skyline Butler Park Horizontal – Photography Felipe Adan Lerma
Recently featured @FineArtAmerica artist groups – * “USA Photographers” curated by Judy Vincent (Twitter) @JudyVincent74 * “Images That Excite You” curated by (Twitter) @John_M_Bailey
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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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Paris in 5 1/2 Weeks : Around Notre Dame – Day 3, via Felipe Adan Lerma
My wife Sheila and I, even back in the autumn of 2012, were of course aware of then learned much more of the incredible history of Paris and it’s iconic areas inside the old city walls. We learned that a previous church had occupied the same spot on the island on the Seine as Notre…
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Notre Dame Paris – In Gratitude for Being There and Surviving Through So Much
From my cherished Paris collection of images from my wife and mine’s stay late 2012 – https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/felipeadan-lerma.html?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=642805&page=1 . As always, from its history of progressing human freedom, to surviving World Wars and revolutions, to its sourcing of such a stunning amount of artistic beauty and creativity, Paris endures to inspire and encourage us. Adan Twitter…
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Adan’s Gratitudes – Walking With Birds
This image from Butler Park is as close as I have to my bird adventure on my morning walk today around the old Austin neighborhood of Bouldin. My creaky 68 year old body was just beginning to limber into a gentle loping pace when….
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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 – 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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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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PhotoPoem for – Self Portrait 19 – Balancing With My Shadow
I step onto myself Assured it won’t hurt – It’s just my own shadow Firm beneath the pale asphalt Reaching up To me Equally Surprised How well we fit – Take a picture it says To remember us by…. * PhotoPoems are a fun thing for me, something I’ve enjoyed creating – joining word & image…
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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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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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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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You Are a Star
Originally posted on Regina Puckett: You are a Star Regina Puckett Are you lost in someone else’s measuring cup? Does someone else’s ruler have you reaching up? Are you the notches on someone else’s belt? Are you the cards someone else has dealt? You are more than someone else’s expectation You are more than…
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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 September Sunrise Six & Seven – Daybreak!
Jan 03, 2019 Hope everyone is having a good start to 2019! These are my 6th and 7th images from my Mount Mansfield September Sunrise photo shoot one morning, September, 2018 – the final two pics in the series! 🙂 Please click links to see full res samples on my site at Fine Art America.Please…
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Mount Mansfield September Sunrise Five
Happy New Year Everyone! This is the 5th image in my Mount Mansfield September Sunrise photo shoot one morning, September, 2018. Dec 31, 2018 It is the first of the series with the sun actually showing. The prior images were twilights, from astronomical twilight to nautical to civil, each a progressive category of light appearing…
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Mount Mansfield September Sunrise Four
“ This is the moment before the sun shows itself. More light reflects orange on the fog. Foreground fields appear.”
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Mount Mansfield, My Favorite Sunrise Photo Shoot Series of 2018 – Image Three
Dec 28, 2018 Though only a few minutes have passed from my previous pic (Image Two, link at bottom of this post), already there’s small changes. As I wrote in my image description on my image site at Fine Art America – “only a few minutes more have passed, but already patches of fog in…
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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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Mount Mansfield, My Favorite Sunrise Photo Shoot Series of 2018 – Image One
Dec 26, 2018 I’d been mulling which of a late September Mount Mansfield sunrise pics I captured to upload to my site on Fine Art America (FAA) and decided since I couldn’t decide (smiles) that I’d present a series from this incredible morning’s photo shoot. I was very lucky and very grateful to have made…
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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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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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Dateline Austin: Goodbye Fall, We Hardly Knew Ya, But It Was Still Nice :)
Dec 17, 2018 Fall colors, or just a plain old Autumn, never last long in Austin anyway, but the moments that appear are a welcome sight. Some are specially created spots right in downtown (see below) while others, like above, are remnants of preserved beauty from Austin’s origins. There’s of course more, but it’s two…
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Butterflies, Children’s Books, Plus Our Youngest Daughter – Creativity is a Weave of Many Threads
Update Aug 2019Please note: Tania recently read from her illustrated children’s book “Skydancer” at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin. A new post about the event is filled with pictures of the event 😊 Dec 11, 2018 When a creative project is nurtured by one of one’s children, involves one of one’s grandchildren,…
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