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101 Sports Poems – 7 Day 61% Off Sale, Day 3 Excerpt Yoga 😊
“Sports is where a person can compete with oneself, and with others, with integrity and safety… “Sports is where a person can learn a great deal about themselves doing something they love… “It’s rare that integrity and fun can be found in one activity, but sports is at its best when combining the two.“
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101 Sports Poems – 7 Day 61% Off Sale, Day 2 Excerpt Volleyball 😊
“Sports is where a person can compete with oneself, and with others, with integrity and safety… “Sports is where a person can learn a great deal about themselves doing something they love… “It’s rare that integrity and fun can be found in one activity, but sports is at its best when combining the two.“
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101 Sports Poems – 7 Day 61% Off Sale, Day 1 Excerpt 😊
“Sports is where a person can compete with oneself, and with others, with integrity and safety… “Sports is where a person can learn a great deal about themselves doing something they love… “It’s rare that integrity and fun can be found in one activity, but sports is at its best when combining the two.“
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Adan’s eBay Art – Yellow Blooms Coral Accent, My Most Viewed Image @FineArtAmerica Last Week 😊
“I had to both decide to accept I liked what I’d created despite nagging voices within me saying it wasn’t good enough — and — stop myself from ‘over creating’ and ruining the work!”
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My Creative Experiment With Amazon Affiliate Marketing 😊
Remember, there’s no additional cost to you, or any potential buyer — not for my work — or any item I suggest — or any item you eventually choose to buy when you purchase by starting with one of my provided Amazon Affiliate links .
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Summer Art Reception Fun at Art for the People Gallery Austin 😊
Very pleased to drop off “Cobblestone Path Home” for the summer / September show at Art for the People gallery on South 1st Street here in Austin! – new blog post from Felipe Adan Lerma .
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Have a Great Friday & Weekend Everyone! I’m Taking a Few Days Off, Well, Kinda 😊
“…we played today and we’ll play Friday, then this weekend I’ll look again at my two poems, ‘Cross Country’ circa ’94, and ‘Accelerating Into the Curve’ circa 2012 – and the posts I’m working up for them.”
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Adan’s eBay Art – New Painting Available : Dancing Flower
“As chronicled my prev two posts, I ran into a self-imposed snag when I realized — felt? accepted? woke up to? — the work I first wanted to list on eBay, Peace Among the Mist, just wasn’t ready.“
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Update to: Adan’s eBay Art – Construction Improvement 4 My Next Piece = Slight Delay 4 New Picture 😊
Originally posted on © Felipe Adan Lerma – All Rights Reserved – Blogging at WordPress Since 2011 :): Prior to new paint today. After new paint today. What Happened Basically, the convergence of my being ill recently, which extended completing our recent move a bit, and seeing my proposed next eBay art offering for the…
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Adan’s eBay Art – Construction Improvement 4 My Next Piece = Slight Delay 4 New Picture 😊
“…the convergence of my being ill recently, which extended completing our recent move a bit, and seeing my proposed next eBay art offering for the first time in months in good light — all got me scooping paint from a tube with a thin palette knife and reworking, ‘Peace Among the Mist.;”
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Fun at the Old Bakery & Emporium Consignors’ 2019 Art Reception 😊
Today’s post is mostly filled with fun pics from last night’s art reception at OBE, the Old Bakery & Emporium! An Important Note First Due to a maintenance schedule change, OBE will be closed the 2nd week of July vs the 3rd, and will thus be closed July 7-15 and reopen Tuesday July 16, 2019…
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Old Bakery & Emporium Vendors’ Art Reception Austin Tonight 😊
Purchase a Personal Use License for any of my images – directly from the artist! 😊 Jpg $1.00 – Tif $2.00Mail me at limitededitionsbyadan@gmail.com with your email & file needs or see purchase button below.Commercial licensing for book covers and other needs also available. About My Two Paintings Due to a move and an emergency gallbladder situation, lol, I…
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I Wanna Win! 😊 – Fine Art America’s July 2019 Billboard Contest 💥
Together, these three images – a BW photograph from Paris, an oil painting of Vermont, and a color photo of Austin – represent both the visual mediums I prefer to create, and, the three places I’ve lived or stayed in extended time that mean most to me.
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Aging Gracefully – Walking’s Paying Off After Surgery, Step by Step 😊
My lesson is — slow is better than not at all. And slow is better than fast too fast, then not being able to move at all, lol!
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Aging Gracefully – When Yoga Breathing Paid Off In the ER 😊
I thought it very cool a breath training segment of some of my yoga classes actually helped enable a health caretaker, my medical helper of the moment, also better “see” inside me, and thus help heal me!
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Adan’s Art – Austin Pink Sunset
“Though I am presenting each image I have individually over time, any image I have posted on Fine Art America or elsewhere is available to choose from as a Limited Edition.” – new blog post: Adan’s Art – Austin Pink Sunset.
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Adan’s Art – Auction #2 – The Bird Bath – Is Live! 😊
My first auction on eBay, ends Sunday, June 23, 2019 at 9am central standard time.
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Delivering My Painting to Art for the People Gallery Austin
Very pleased to drop off “Cobblestone Path Home” for the summer / September show at Art for the People gallery on South 1st Street here in Austin! – new blog post from Felipe Adan Lerma .
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Paris is Personal – Original Paris Poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma
Originally posted on © Felipe Adan Lerma – All Rights Reserved – Blogging at WordPress Since 2011 :): Slumming in Paris Part One, Arthur & Gricinda “Paris is Personal” – Original Paris Poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma Original Paris Poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma Pictured Left : “Slumming in Paris, Part One”, novella, available on…
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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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#AgingGracefully – Easier to Hit Fitness Goal Metrics (hint: a lower target heart rate) – Yes! 😊
It was a relief for me to see that going to The Y or gym, work up an out of breath sweat on the elliptical, see a reading between 137 to 152, and realize I wasn’t merely “out of shape!”
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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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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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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 – 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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