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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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Discovering Diamonds Review: “Ike and Kay” by James MacManus
Originally posted on writerchristophfischer: “Ike and Kay” by James MacManus is the fictionalised account of the war time affair between married General Dwight Eisenhower and his assistant-turned-driver Kay Summersby; an affair which started in 1942 and came to a final end after the war. I didn’t know this detail about Eisenhower until I read the…
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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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Seeing the Poem Emerge in My Painting – Sometimes Finding the Words Can Take Awhile – That’s OK :)
To Retweet, please click the image above! 🙂 Link to my painting “Malletts Bay Sunrise Colchester Vermont” – https://fineartamerica.com/featured/malletts-bay-sunrise-colchester-vermont-felipe-adan-lerma.html . Mount Mansfield and Malletts Bay combined one brisk early 2017 fall morning in Vermont with photos and an experience that gave rise to this painting late 2018. The painting took awhile to evolve from the…
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Poetry in Fiction, Samples – Slumming in Paris Part Three, Boys & Girls in Paris
Originally posted on © Felipe Adan Lerma – All Rights Reserved – Blogging at WordPress Since 2011 :): Poetry in Fiction, Samples – Slumming in Paris Part Three, With the Children Boys & Girls in Paris Third in Series, Poetry in Fiction *** Pictured Left : “Slumming in Paris, Part Three” – 24,912 Story Words.…
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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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Paris : PhotoPoem # 4 : “Music at Shakespeare & Company”
Originally posted on © Felipe Adan Lerma – All Rights Reserved – Blogging at WordPress Since 2011 :): Paris PhotoPoems Series, #4 “Music at Shakespeare & Company” Pictured Left : Slumming in Paris Part One, Arthur & Gricinda Universal Amazon eBook Link – http://mybook.to/SlummingInParis1 *** “the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of…
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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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Spotted Treasure – My New Butterfly Photo at Fine Art America
Spotted Treasure, an action or an object?
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Paris – Variations of the Endurance of Beauty and Art In Our Lives
Dec 06, 2018 I’ve found that some moments I’ve caught with my camera will often begin telling me, like a model turning and showing how light highlights its beauty – “Look at me! I am beautiful, I am enticing, I endure! What can you do that will enhance the light!” Paris, I feel, like the…
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U.S. Veterans Art Show – Last Day at Austin Art Space
The exhibition will be at the Austin Art Space Gallery, ( via AVAA ) 7739 Northcross Dr., Suite Q, Austin, TX 78757. Attendance is free. Art Space Gallery hours are Fridays and Saturdays, 11-5 p.m. Last exhibit date is December 01, 2018. For more information about the show, please contact chrisvanloan@yahoo.com/512-653-0073 Art work above is by Felipe…
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What’s New Wednesday?
Originally posted on Ritter Ames–USA TODAY Bestselling Author of the Bodies of Art Mysteries & Organized Mysteries: In the last few weeks, I’ve been polishing and adding new content to Organized for Masked Motives, which first appeared in the Halloween Anthology, Midnight Mysteries. The anthology was only available in fall 2016 & 2017 and is now completely off-sale, never to return…
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PURE SELF INDULGENCE
Originally posted on lucinda E Clarke: Now I hope I’m not too spammy on my blogs, aiming to entertain rather than scream ‘buy my books, buy my books’. But usually on the first Monday of the month I write about general things or have a little rant. That gets it out of my system for…
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Book Review – Lost Girl by Anne Francis Scott
Excerpt, “Lost Girl captures perfectly the sense of eeriness of a big old and deserted house stuck out in the backwoods of nowhere…” – sounds very tempting 🙂 – Excellent review of the book & the author! #paranormal #mystery
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New Release: “The Yiddish Gangsters Daughter” by Joan Lipinsky Cochran
Originally posted on writerchristophfischer: #TheYiddishGangsters Daughter was just released on #Kindlebooks and #Amazon print. A woman’s life is endangered when she learns her father was a member of the #Jewishsyndicate. https://tinyurl.com/ya59vhap Since separating from her philandering husband, Boca Raton writer Becks Ruchinsky has struggled to build a closer relationship with her quirky and contentious father,…
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One Heart (poetry) by Regina Puckett
Originally posted on Regina Puckett: One Heart Regina Puckett We dance without touching We hold on without clutching We twirl around without moving We say yes without approving You and I are two worlds apart Two bodies but only one heart ?
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Your Own Uniqueness (poetry) by Regina Puckett
Originally posted on Regina Puckett: Your Own Uniqueness Regina Puckett Do you ever try to be someone other than you Twisting yourself inside out to be someone new Until one day you look at yourself in the mirror All you see is a confused imposter and a bad error So what do you do…
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Oh, simple thing…
Originally posted on Tom Plevnik Photography: …where have you gone? Le Saint André Sacha Finkelsztajn – La Boutique Jaune Rue Vieille du Temple Les Deux Magots Rue Cardinale Jardin du Palais Royal Rue des 2 Boules Rue Saint-Bon Rue Saint-Blaise Boulevard de Grenelle
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Find Something (poetry) by Regina Puckett
Originally posted on Regina Puckett: Find Something Regina Puckett I came into the world – weary Often downhearted and teary I waited with such anticipation Expecting something from creation But each day creation waited for me It wanted more than for me to just – be It actually expected me to mark my place…
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Book Review – Life of Choice: Parts 1 – 5
This is a bit of a long review, as it covers 5 parts or books of one story, a young man’s journey as a soldier. P.A. Ruddock is an exceptionally astute and clear reviewer, and Tom Benson the author (whom I’ve read a few works of) has experience in a wide range of genres from…
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Re-branding Instagram account
Originally posted on Tom Plevnik Photography: What does one do when they decide to focus more on a specific genre and less on what they’ve built their feed and following on? Do you keep your previous posts public so new followers get a sense of where you come from, or do you demolish your feed…
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THE WASHING MACHINE
Originally posted on SUSANNE LEIST: blakekathryn ruin ? ? I’m having a bad dream, no, maybe a nightmare, of a washing machine. ? It wakes me up at night. It rumbles and whispers. I hope it won’t take flight. ? It’s moving and grooving to a beat of its own, that is far from soothing. ?…
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The Secret is Out
Originally posted on Ritter Ames–USA TODAY Bestselling Author of the Bodies of Art Mysteries & Organized Mysteries: If you have a minute, head over to Dru’s Book Musings where Dru is showing off the new cover for the next Bodies of Art Mystery — Yay! Only in preorder now, but the book will be available June…
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Over My Dead Body: Murder at Eurovision (Bebe Bollinger Murder Mysteries 2) is now available on pre-sale
Originally posted on writerchristophfischer: Over My Dead Body: Murder at Eurovision (Bebe Bollinger Murder Mysteries 2) is now available on pre-sale – to be whisperlessly delivered to your kindle on April 30th. The paperback copies can already be purchased from https://www.amazon.com/dp/1717148565 If you want an ARC (Advance Review Copy) I can send you the mobi file.…
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MEET HEATHER RAMSAY
Originally posted on lucinda E Clarke: This week it’s a huge welcome to Heather Ramsay who has recently published her first novel. It’s definitely going on my TBR list as it sounds just the sort of book I enjoy. First, a little about Heather. Heather Ramsay grew up in a town just outside of Toronto, Ontario.…
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Darkly Wood
Review of Darkly Wood https://addictivereads.wordpress.com/2018/03/07/darkly-wood/ “Just when you think you have it all figured out…prepare yourself for a surprise. The plot flows smoothly and the characters are relatable….” review by Melanie P. Smith Of Max Power’s well received (in her words) “spine-chilling love story” Definitely sounds interesting 🙂 Melanie Smith @AddictiveReads * Max Powers @maxpowerbooks1
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Winter in Ljubljana
Originally posted on Tom Plevnik Photography: Before the end of the winter, some photos of Ljubljana in the snow. After a long time, we were getting a lot of snow here. And I don’t like winter, low temperatures, cloudy and short days … I can’t wait to the end of the winter. And now it’s…
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Whatever Comes (poetry) by Regina Puckett
Originally posted on Regina Puckett: Whatever Comes Regina Puckett Life is often so hard It leaves you scarred It takes without giving So why keep on living? Maybe it’s for the passion Maybe it’s for compassion Maybe it’s you just want more So you open another day’s door Ready to take on whatever comes…
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Giving the Women of Auschwitz a Voice – ‘The Power of Words’.
Originally posted on Rebecca Bryn: Royalties from downloads and page reads of Touching the Wire during Holocaust week will be donated to US Holocaust Memorial Museum At the end of 2014, I published my first historical novel, Touching the Wire, a tale of courage, hope, and love set partly in Auschwitz, a place where courage…
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