Fine Art America
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April 20, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – Our 1st Peek of Our New Abode
Tomorrow I’ll try and have some interior shots I took before our car load of boxes came in; another similar round of car loads tomorrow, then the “big” movers come Thursday; but right now, 5 min til 8pm, we’re very hopeful, and we’re calling it a day, quite a day ♥️
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April 19, 2021 – My Most Viewed Image This Week @FineArtAmerica, Abstract Detail 2 Faith in a Safe Return
“…it’s kinda nice Abstract Detail 2 Faith in a Safe Return turned out to be my most viewed image on Fine Art America last week! ♥️ The title itself is apropos – suggesting faith in safely, happily completing our new move! 😊 ”
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April 18, 2021 – Moving in Our 70’s in a Time of Covid – Stragglers Needing Packing
“I have most my images, prints and originals, paper/canvas/panels, mostly packed now…Somehow I’ve ended up with several stragglers, lol!”
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April 15, 2021 – Abstract Detail 2 Faith in a Safe Return, My Newest #DigitalArt Upload @FineArtAmerica
“Though not a detail abstract, where the originating image is otherwise unknown, this is a tight cropping round the female figure in the original small 5×7 watercolor on canvas panel”
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April 09, 2021 – Volleyball Blocker Poster, My Newest #Sports Gift Upload @FineArtAmerica
Quick post to let folks know the 3rd of my seven Volleyball theme posters, Volleyball Blocker, is now available on Fine Art America as both prints and gift items!
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April 08, 2021 – Volleyball Poster, My Newest #Sports Gift Upload @FineArtAmerica
After only having Volleyball Setter Poster available for a long time, I’ve finally begun uploading my full Volleyball sports poetry series, beginning with Volleyball Poster, onto Fine Art America! Additional Volleyball titles….
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April 07, 2021 – Volleyball Setter Poster 2 : Poetry, Line Art and Digital Wash
It had to happen, lol! I had to finally apply my new line art with wash coloring style to one of my writings and I figured, well, my volleyball poem series has about seven titles, so they’d be a good one to create alternative choice imaging for! 😊
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April 05, 2021 – Aging Gracefully – Through Covid-19 – Shout Out to Office Depot: Free Laminating of Our CDC Vaccination Record; Plus Playtime with Grandchild; and New Volleyball Image Upload
Stay well everyone! Good-night! Work and play as able / as needed – it’s our juggling game of life ♥️
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April 03, 2021 – Abstract Detail 1 Sun Spot Flower, My Newest #DigitalArt Upload @FineArtAmerica
It’s more like an accidental find. That’s ok of course, lol! But I sure can’t claim other than creating something with a “find” within it – and that’s ok too 😊
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April 02, 2021 – Sun Spot Flower, My Newest #Watercolor Upload @FineArtAmerica
Sun Spot Flower..I finished it in one sitting early last week, unsure of myself about, propped it up near the dining table by a lamp, and watched myself watch over it til I decided, yeah, I like it the way it is 😊
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March 31, 2021 – My Most Viewed Image This Week @FineArtAmerica, Gift Writing, “Volleyball Setter”
Volleyball setter is my newest “most viewed” for a one week period at Fine Art America! 😊
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March 29, 2021 – Radiology Technologist : Poetry, Line Art and Digital Wash
I’d teased in one of my previous posts, with the 4 layer image below, re developing the image work for my newest gift post, Radiology Technologist – 1st written & sold in the 90s, and now reincarnating as a spiffy image/poster/poem, available in prints and gifts like t-shirts, bags & more! 😊
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March 25, 2021 – My Most Viewed Image This Week @FineArtAmerica, Gift Writing, “Jogger”
Jogger is my newest “most viewed” for a one week period at Fine Art America!
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March 19, 2021 – My Most Viewed Image This Week @FineArtAmerica, Gift Writing, “Little Dancer”
It’s a particularly nice treat for me when something new I’m trying is the most viewed image on Fine Art America that week, and Little Dancer pranced its way to the top! ♥️
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March 12, 2021 – Little Dancer Poster : Poetry, Line Art and Digital Wash
This is my 1st attempt combining these three elements in one digital file, creating a digital poster, and though I messed some things up and took longer than I expected, I’m very pleased with the result!
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March 11, 2021 – Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 26 – Rock Point North View, Uploaded 04.17.16
this stretch of blue beauty very near to where my wife grew up in Burlington was there, smiling, waiting for me to accept the fact it’s there. Calm. Reflective, variegated. And blessed with interest from foreground to background.
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March 09, 2021 – Spring is a Lady, My Newest Upload @FineArtAmerica
Like, A Blush of Spring, Spring is a Lady is painted with Arteza’s watercolor Real Brush Pens on Canson 140 lb watercolor paper. But Spring is a Lady is also like Floating Butterfly in that it’s a pen and ink with watercolor wash, the pen and ink coming via my Faber Castell Pitt Artist pens,…
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March 08, 2021 – My Most Viewed Image This Week @FineArtAmerica, Watercolor, “A Blush of Spring”
Painted with Arteza’s watercolor Real Brush Pens on Canson 140 lb watercolor paper, this is a rare work where I followed my instincts, pressed too far, messed it, then trusted my instincts to “see what would happen” – and A Blush of Spring resulted!
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March 07, 2021 – Dispatcher – Gift Writing / Poetry by Adan
Seeing how folks seemed to really like both previous posts, I’m following up with another well received work, Dispatcher.
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March 06, 2021 – A Yoga Teacher – Gift Writing / Poetry by Adan
Yesterday I posted about another of my gift writings, one that sold just recently, Volleyball Setter, and I thought I’d post a short note about another I’ve always liked – A Yoga Teacher.
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February 28, 2021 – My Most Viewed Image This Week @FineArtAmerica, Watercolor, “Charcoal Mountain”
Using one of Arteza’s black brush pens, it shows the pen’s exceptional ability to lay down thick and wash pigment (see image below). The thick nicely textured Canson XL watercolor paper of course helps too 😊
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 25 – Festival Night Land and Shore, Uploaded 04.16.16
“This view, this scene of celebratory calmness amid nature, is an enduring memory of many moments over many years of visiting and living in my wife’s home state 💕 Fuzziness and all 😊 ”
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February 05, 2021 – New Excerpt Series Starting Soon, The Old American Artist, with Commentary
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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February 03, 2021 – Glimpses of Valentine Red in Austin
“A surprise sunrise yesterday, Tuesday morning, in Austin. If Sheila hadn’t alerted me I’d missed the whole thing, lol!”
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January 31, 2021 – My Most Viewed Images This Week @FineArtAmerica, Watercolors, Austin and Paris
Newer work almost always has a nice jump on the most viewed count among my images on Fine Art America, but it’s especially nice both my newest watercolors not only topped the list this past week, but with resoundingly good numbers 🙏 On top of that, like a reminder cushion, two of my oldest uploads,…
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January 25, 2021 – New Watercolor Upload to Fine Art America, Magenta Mountain
Magenta Mountain In a sign this is as good a rendition to other folks as to myself, I received two comments on Fine Art America within the hour of its posting!
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January 18, 2021 – Selling 3 Small Originals at Buda Mercantile! Part 2
Part 1 of my unexpectedly nice Saturday at Buda Mercantile has more pics, but didn’t have these, as I was still digitally processing them then uploading them to Fine Art America 😊
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January 17, 2021 – Selling 3 Small Originals at Buda Mercantile! Part 1
Today was a good day for my 1st day back this year with my art at Buda Mercantile.
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January 13, 2021 – Monet’s Garden April Rain in Giverny, Photo to Oil to Watercolors through Three Decades, Part 5 – (Non-Professional) Challenges Photographing Painting Nuances
Yesterday I posted a couple of my watercolor renditions of my mini-Monet’s Garden series of posts, but was immediately unhappy with how one of the two appeared on screen.
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January 12, 2021 – Monet’s Garden April Rain in Giverny, Photo to Oil to Watercolors through Three Decades, Part 4 – Learning Lessons Doing Repetition Variations
Previously, in Part 3 of this mini series, I showcased my 1st watercolor (seen below) keyed off an original oil of 2001, itself keyed off an original photo of the same year.
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January 08, 2021 – Monet’s Garden April Rain in Giverny, Photo to Oil to Watercolors through Three Decades, Part 3 – Painting Through Political Stress
Third of a short series portraying how I parlayed one great photo at Monet’s Garden in Giverny in 2001 into a poster, an oil, and more recently a watercolor (or two, if I can keep my 70 year old uh-huh in gear 😊).
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January 05, 2021 – Monet’s Garden April Rain in Giverny, Photo to Oil to Watercolors through Three Decades, Part 2
Second of a short series portraying how I parlayed one great photo at Monet’s Garden in Giverny in 2001 into a poster, an oil, and more recently a watercolor (or two, if I can keep my 70 year old uh-huh in gear 😊).
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January 04, 2021 – Monet’s Garden April Rain in Giverny, Photo to Oil to Watercolors through Three Decades, Part 1
First of a short series portraying how I parlayed one great photo at Monet’s Garden in Giverny in 2001 into a poster, an oil, and more recently a watercolor (or two, if I can keep my 70 year old uh-huh in gear 😊).
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Adan’s Newest Digital Image Upload to Fine Art America – Paris Dreams Digital Rendition (Uploaded 12.14.20)
“Like my other newest companion series I’ve begun this past week, Adan’s Newest Art Upload to Fine Art America, this series, Adan’s Newest Digital Image Upload to Fine Art America, begins with my most current upload to Fine Art America – Paris Dreams Digital Rendition.”
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Adan’s Newest Art Upload to Fine Art America – Paris Dreams (Watercolor on Absorbent Ground) Uploaded 12.11.20
Paris Dreams is an early result of beginning with a color that appealed to how I felt that day, violet, applied abstractly, then give another stab at developing a figure.
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 24 – Dusk Begins to Sleep (Vermont) , Uploaded 04.16.16
“… this moment to moment change in the light at dusk and dawn is one of our world’s daily treasures….”
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 23 – Sunset Dock (Vermont) , Uploaded 04.15.16
“This begins a nice series of shots I took in Vermont various times my wife and I’ve been there. I love visiting her home state….”
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 22 – Room in the Sky , Uploaded 04.13.16
Analogous to #20 Lit Like Stained Glass in my Fine Art America images, Room in the Sky is nevertheless a more distinct night shot, probably captured the same night on our way back from an evening at Art Hop in Vermont.“













































