Category: Felipe Adan Lerma
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Catching Up Posting My Newer Paintings – Island Line Trail Sunset 6 2026
“Soft warm light eased my day, shimmering now, glittering greetings of peace and hopefulness like seeds for my dreams and slumber in my sleep to come” – Adan
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Side by Side, Comparing the Same File With Differing Export Settings – 10.18.26, Updated 101926
I feel this new format now presents the physical presence of my work closer to actuality as I myself see it, especially in regards to textures, colors, value changes, etc.
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Reformatting Images of My Art for Truer Representation, Even if Only Slightly
“I know 1st things I’d want to know is how are my newer images better, and how can I apply this to more of my work….”
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My Most Viewed Image Last Week at #FineArtAmerica – Praying Together 2026 8×10
I feel this new format now presents the physical presence of my work closer to actuality as I myself see it, especially in regards to textures, colors, value changes, etc.
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Reformatting Images of My Art for Truer Representation, Bit by Bit, Literally
I feel this new format now presents the physical presence of my work closer to actuality as I myself see it, especially in regards to textures, colors, value changes, etc.
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Color & Texture — Texture & Color
My Collections Pages — https://www.saatchiart.com/account/collection/2369095 https://felipeadan-lerma.pixels.com/collectiongroups
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My Original Source Photo for Series of New Paintings – San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge
The image opportunity itself was via an evening boat ride my wife Sheila and I took on our so-far only trip to San Francisco a couple years ago.
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Intro: Grappling With Organizing My Series Paintings from My Original Photos into Groups
My Collections page at Saatchi Art includes collections by style or place plus works in a specific series. Best I can do for now, lol! Hopefully improve over time 🙏 😊
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Sold! At SaatchiArt — Tender is the Night 2024 – With much thanks to my buyer in Brooklyn NY!
“Not only am I grateful to my Brooklyn buyer, but also to Saatchi Art that literally navigated me through the ice-storm prolonged process last month here Austin!”
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New Painting Series – Island Land Trail Sunset Vermont 2026 – Gaining Perspective About My Experience of Painting Doing Series of Series
It’s a welcome surprise to realize how rich one’s life experience can be, even within seemingly single short time frames themselves! I feel this new small study, with its misty soft blues and distant vistas is a nice reflection of that.
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Voter ID – ReVisiting John R. Lewis’ 2021 Voting Rights Proposal That Failed – What’s Different Now – And Why Not Debate it With the Current 2026 Voting Rights – Together?
This is a short post I seldom write up. A political post. Understandly so. There’s a lot of the usual “they” don’t want this or that now talk from this or that political party.
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Are We at Our Kent State Moment? – One by One the Women Came and Said, It’s Time 2026 9×12 acrylic on canvas panel – by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊
“I still vividly remember the images on TV 1970 of students my age shot and on the ground during a demonstration against the Vietnam War”
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1st Cabin Light Finished Painting 2026
Saturations of sky and earth roll and rest spin like a first slow dance in junior high – middle school the grandkids laugh and tell me they think I make all this up just to be funny 😊
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1st Cabin Light Study 1 2025
I wasn’t sure when to stop but my own waves of self, conscious of the need to rest joined the earth before me, an image shaped by pigments from itself.
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I was born at the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius and I’m Very Angry, but….
I now see a wonderful opportunity and challenge in creating series of captured memories from my photos, and exploring/mining them for what I both remember, feel, and discover new ❤️
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Learning via 3 Painting Stages on 3 Canvases via My Photo, 1st Cabin Light 2017
“After I post the final images of this 1st new painting experiment of mine, links and all, I can post about this new 2nd unexpected-to-me fun series of takes of another of my Vermont photos : Island Line Trail Sunset via Colchester Vertical 2018”
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Follow-up blog post after my 1st blog post since August 2025 earlier this week – Definitely like starting new!
“The relinquishing of one’s art, my art, to myself, is sometimes more scary than gearing my productivity to outside expectations”
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My 1st blog post since August this year (2025) – Like starting new!
“My plan, my hope, is to keep this, my original layin, produce a new 2nd similar layin but add a content color layin; keep it; then repeat the steps with the two formative layers and see what finished product I might produce – 3 works total”
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Poetry and Art 2025 : 1st Wings 2025 8×10 – by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊
Excerpt from my original poem for 1st Wings — “teasing smiles from her wide eyes as trembles aches stretched sweet like taffy….” – Adan –
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Poetry and Art 2025 : Scratches Made Whole 11×14 2025 – by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊
“she felt herself in pieces gathered her sharp edges slowly – – her smoother edge moments gingerly in a dance of yes and no” – Adan –
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Thrust 2025 11×14 Fearless, With Hope, Through the Chaos – by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊
“Ancient earth tones touched her feet swam underneath her skirt brushed her skin with raw silk cells” – Adan –
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Poetry and Painting – Thrust 2025 24×36 Into the Void – by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊
“Leaping thrusting herself into the void of life’s light” – Adan –
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Poetry and Painting – Thrust 2025 24×36 Whispering – by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊
“Leaping thrusting herself into the void of life’s light” – Adan –
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Painting in Focus – Summer 2025 @SaatchiArt – Seasonally Off, Emotionally On
…much of this whole write-up about Summer 2025, I discovered while writing this very post – a very similar creative path I experience painting. That’s part of what the creative effort does for me – helps me make sense of things I feel but can’t yet explain.
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Update: Starlight 2025 – a work-in-progress post from Feb’22 – My New Year’s Resolution, Finish This Painting by Feb ’25!
I’ve procrastinated finishing this post almost as much as finishing this painting, Dreaming With the Moon and Stars 2022-25, based on Childe Hassan’s gorgeous impressionist masterpiece, On the Balcony 1888.
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Painting in Focus – Thrust 8×10 2025 @SaatchiArt – Learning to Use a Public Domain Image to Paint My Original Art – 😊
My translation into my own style starts with this small 8×10 beige pinkish textured abstraction, Thrust 8×10 2025 ..
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Poetry and Painting – Eiffel Tower by Bus Tour Poster circa 2016 – by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊
“the night air a pastry fresh baked, and you and I, arm in arm” – Adan –
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Poetry and Painting – Blue Paradise 2024 by Adan – @SaatchiArt 😊
8×10, acrylic on canvas, I love the simplicity yet depth of feeling in this small piece 😊🙏❤️
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Painting in Focus – My Most Viewed Painting this Past Week, January 12, 2025 @FineArtAmerica – Shimmer 2024 😊
Shimmer 2024 8×10 acrylic – It’s nice to have 2 great art sites with slightly differing options for much of my art work! Each with my commentary re this painting 😊
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Painting in Focus – Fierce Summer – Last Painting Finished in 2024 – @SaatchiArt 😊
Scratchy, generally unpolished, the figure (via a snapshot I’d taken along Town Lake in Austin years ago) nevertheless has a lot….
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Painting in Focus – Shimmer 2024 @FineArtAmerica : Prints and Gifts 😊
A small pleasant piece that makes me smile 😊🙏❤️ – Shimmer 2024
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Painting in Focus – Shimmer 2024 @SaatchiArt 😊
A small pleasant piece that makes me smile 😊🙏❤️ – Shimmer 2024
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Reblog: a work-in-progress post from Feb’22 – My New Year’s Resolution, Finish This Painting by Feb ’25!
I’ve procrastinated finishing this post almost as much as finishing this painting, Dreaming With the Moon and Stars 2022-25, based on Childe Hassan’s gorgeous impressionist masterpiece, On the Balcony 1888.
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Merry Christmas 2024! — 11 Christmas Paintings by Norman Rockwell in a 2022 Article From HistoryHit
It’s nice to have 2 great art sites with slightly differing options for much of my art work!
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Painting in Focus – My Most Viewed Painting this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, Tender is the Night 2024 😊
It’s nice to have 2 great art sites with slightly differing options for much of my art work!
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Painting in Focus – We Met in a Fog of Hope 2024 @SaatchiArt 😊
A layin I immediately realized could not be improved on, loved this piece on site! 😊🙏❤️
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Painting in Focus – Prayers 2024 @SaatchiArt 😊
newest work I use a pointed tool to bring out more of the figure’s form 😊🙏❤️
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Painting in Focus – In the Moment 2024
the 1st work I openly used a pointed tool to bring out more of the figure’s form 😊🙏❤️
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Painting in Focus – With Her Heart Near, She Sang Into the Future 2024
Romantic, sensuous & wistful in impressionistic rendering…. ❤️
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Painting in Focus – She Walks Two Shores 2024
Lyrical and sensuous in an impressionist style, my small 9″ x 12″ watercolor on paper with original hand ink drawing – She Walks Two Shores 2024 🙏😊 Adan * * Click or slide to view images from early 1980s to 2024 🧑🎨 🎨 👩🎤 **** Online Saatchi Art – https://www.saatchiart.com/FelipeAdanLerma– originals & prints – Fine Art…
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Painting in Focus – Blue Dancer 2023
Blue Dancer is another approach I like (along with line work) with a differing type of visual impact. Definitely fun 😊
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Painting in Focus – Petals 2020
Petals 2020 – Watercolors and ink pen lines are combined on a coated gallery wrapped canvas…the soft colors offering a soothing respite ❤️
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Painting in Focus – Dance circa 2022
Dance 2021 – acrylic & watercolor on canvas ©️Felipe Adan Lerma https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Dance-2021/2369095/12062561/view @saatchiart
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Happy 4th of July 2024! 🇺🇸 ❤️ Remember to Vote! 😊
Burlington Vermont waterfront last night, where fireworks are on the night before.
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Painting in Focus – Tender is the Night circa 2024
My painting in focus is a once a week peek at a work I feel esp inclined to revisit this week 😊❤️🙏
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My home studio view 03.03.24
Each week I’ll try and update the image of the space I’m working out of; should be fun seeing when I’m traveling or laid up, lol! 😊
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Painting in Focus – Tender is the Night circa 2024
My painting in focus is a once a week peek at a work I feel esp inclined to revisit this week 😊❤️🙏
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My home studio view 02.25.24
Each week I’ll try and update the image of the space I’m working out of; should be fun seeing when I’m traveling or laid up, lol! 😊
