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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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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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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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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 – Austin Covid-19 Warning re Hospital Bed Capacity by Mid-July 2020
Austin has quickly reached a crossroads of choices that may or may not prevent the city and area from having to shut down again.
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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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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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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 27, 2020 – Personal Transitions During Stay-at-Home Distancing
Personal Transitions During Stay-at-Home Distancing No BIG in the typical sense of what I tend to think “big” life change/transitions are, but with no blog post for 5 or 6 days, I gave up figuring out the exact # of days, lol, I felt compelled to say a little something.
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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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Aging Through Covid-19, May 20, 2020 – Legal Struggles About the Right to Vote
A bit of news out of my home state of Texas. For the past decade, the two main political parties of that state have battled in and out of court in regard to things vote related. Actually seemingly everything vote related, lol!
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 18, 2020 – Article Review of Risk Levels of Everyday Activities
A superb article, mostly for two reasons. One, it covers a huge range of our everyday activities. Two, it differentiates into most the activities, delineating what makes it risky or less so, in general.
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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 30, 2020 – Tuition Free College for Health Frontline Workers
A breath of fresh air and hope, via the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, for her state ❤️
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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 21, 2020 – Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall – “Without hope there’s no point in continuing on. If the nurses didn’t hope they could save COVID-19 patients, they wouldn’t be risking their lives….”
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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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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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Aging Through Covid-19, April 17, 2020 – Free Will Astrology
Sheltering in place and shaking up my thinking — I like to read Rob Brezsny‘s Free Will Astrology. Have for years! It’s fun, positive, always encouraging, sometimes with a sly sense of humor that catches me off guard 😂
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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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