Creativity
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January 26, 2021 – When Creativity and Chores Collide, lol!
Well, it’s past 5pm, didn’t get to paint, but sure got more than a couple of handfuls of chores done, plus, a little touch of art.
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January 21, 2021 – Inauguration Day, The Day After – An Energy’s Been Unleashed!
“I couldn’t decide what I’d write today!…And there can only be one reason – other than we’re one day closer to Valentines Day, my wife’s fav ❤️ — A new day has risen for America! For all of us who want it.”
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#Watercolor Lights and Whites via Dianne Mize Studio December 2020
This newsletter alert from artist Dianne Mize is set with a link straight to her free YouTube video.
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 16 – Creativity and Awareness in Yoga, Uploaded 04.11.16
“My previous post in this series of my uploads to Fine Art America since early 2016, was also a strongly developed digital creation, but Creativity and Awareness in Yoga was the last of works I developed with as much interlacing of images and dimensions.“
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 15 – Yoga Creativity and Awareness, Digital Art circa 2016
“I’d very much begun to think ‘digital’ was the way for me to go by this time in early 2016, but I’d both begun to see my technical limitations and feel a growing reluctance within myself to….”
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Awash in Dreams – One Painting, Four Digital Variations
“Sometimes I spend a lot of time debating which variations to keep, which to toss, I come up with, from any one of my originals. This time around the process just seemed to slip by without as much stutter and hesitation – much the way this painting came about.“
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My Art and Photography are in Good Company at Fine Art America!
“Just a short post with some links for a special promotion Fine Art America has created for artists and photographers selling their work on the FAA site.”
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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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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 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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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 – 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 – 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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Finding A Composition Among Clutter (Tips for Paintings and Drawings) via Dianne Mize Studio June 2020
“Anything that initially catches our attention is a good place to start. I pointed out how the light rays are striking those upper center flowers and the shadows of the two on the outside. So let’s start there.“ – Dianne Mize
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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 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, 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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Short Update on My Art, Blog Posts and Fitness 😊 March 08, 2020
With less dr visits planned this coming week, I’m hoping to use that extra time to paint again (beyond prep work) – and – post regularly again! I did upload my first new image to Fine Art America last night in almost three weeks, and hope to have a “new FAA uploads” post up later…
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Same Subject Different Styles – via Artist Kirt Tisdale 🎨
Artist Kirt Tisdale – “This week I have chosen to do something that compares different styles of ‘painting’ or presentation on the same subject matter….each creating a totally different look. I would also like to preface that it’s ok to like certain styles of ‘painting’ and/or really not like certain styles. Art is in the…
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Feeding the Artist Behind the Scene (Michelangelo, and Us 😊) via Dianne Mize Studio Feb 2020
“Master artists know how drawing plays a major role in feeding their artist within. A lot of behind the scenes drawing activities shape the outcome of every painting that has endured the ages.”
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The Power of Understatement (Lost Edges) via Dianne Mize Studio Feb 2020
“In the 1960’s I attended an art show in which hung a huge mural size painting showing as its content the total of three words: “Say Everything Completely”. I rebelled against that message then and I bristle at it now. The reason is that in my work, a part of my personal aesthetic is understatement.”
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2nd Progress Update Working with Golden Absorbent Ground and Fineline Masking Fluid, on Violet Blooms 02.11.20
“Over all I feel my realizations and near misses, design-wise, outweigh my mistakes and the very real possibility this will become a “conversation learning-piece” work vs anything I can call finished and available for sale. I’m hoping I’m wrong about that last part, and find a way to finish it 😊 Very briefly, these are…
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Progress Update Working with Golden Absorbent Ground and Fineline Masking Fluid, on The First Snow 01.25.20
“Later, once the piece is done, the gloss isolation layer and matte varnish will have to protect paint and masking fluid. The glossy isolation layer preserves the colors, and the clear matte varnish protects against dust etc, but restores the surface feel and matte finish of the completed work – as I found out via…
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Progress Update Working with Golden Absorbent Ground and Fineline Masking Fluid, on Violet Blooms 01.24.20
“Turns out this method (for me) is also not 100% foolproof, at least in regard to getting the right areas masked, etc. But I really think this is more to do with a learning curve, both in regard to watercolor choices in general, and using masking fluid for and with those choices.”
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Adan’s Product Reviews on Amazon – Golden’s Clear Tar Gel – Messy, Tricky, and Wonderful Results! 😊
“I was “very” hesitant to try Clear Tar Gel out, but had gotten to a point with a small acrylic work where either I chunked it, or tried this. I just hadn’t been able to keep the look I created when wet, no matter how much glaze medium & such I used; mostly in regard…
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Manet made the doodles in his letters look effortless … by using tracing paper | Art and design | The Guardian
“of the illustrated letters: “They are always described as breezy, virtuosic and effortless, and dashed off in a moment. But what I discovered is that most of these things seem to have been traced from more searching and careful drawings.”
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Foggy Monday, Foggy Week (they say 😊) – Time For Art & a Movie! 01.14.20
“Hi everyone! All the Austin weather folk have us boxed in with fog. Good thing Sheila & I took advantage of this past weekend’s unbelievably nice weather 😊 But the change in weather hasn’t slowed us down much, lol!”
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Catching Up the Weekend 01.12.20
“Hi everyone, just a quick note. Haven’t been able to post this weekend like I’d like ‘cause, well, simply put, I had to choose between posting and being able to take advantage of a rare beauty of a weekend here in Austin with family and art projects 😊 ”
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My Yesterday in Pictures for, Jan 01 – 03 2020 😊 Art, the Old Bakery & Emporium, and Grandchildren 💕
My Yesterday in Pictures – Jan 01-03, 2020 😊 Art, the Old Bakery & Emporium, Grandchild & I learning about tracing/transfer paper 😂
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My Yesterday in Pictures for, Dec 23, 24 & 25, 2019 – Art & Food Into Christmas 💕 😊
My Yesterday in Pictures – Dec 23, 24 & 25 2019 😊 Art & Food into Christmas Day ❤️
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Pursuit of Perfection in the Arts by David J. Rogers
“The virtuoso performance is the single most exciting and popular feature not only of drama but of any art, and the most thrilling feature of a virtuoso performance is not the possibility that the artist may fail. Rather, it is the spectacle of succeeding in an extraordinary way…”
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My Yesterday in Pictures for, Dec 11, 2019 😊
My Yesterday in Pictures – Dec 11, 2019 – Creativity: My artist process / comparison 2003 vs 2019 – is it that much different?
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Photography for Painting via Dianne Mize Studio Nov 2019
Photography for Painting via Dianne Mize Studio Nov 2019 – “The important thing is not where your images come from, but how you experience them and what you do with them….”
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My Day Ahead – Nov 25, 2019
My daily updates on goings on in my life re family, fitness, the arts, and blogging 😊 : my creative process, inspiration
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Adan’s Movie Reviews – Renoir, via Prime Video
“What I thought opened as a very slow moving period piece, reflecting the century-ago pace of life in the country at a wealthy estate, gradually rose to an inspired emotional story of many layers.”
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My Day Ahead – Nov 02, 2019
My daily updates on goings on in my life re family, fitness, the arts, and blogging 😊 : grandchildren & grandparents, painting, Amazon Affiliate Marketing .
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Adan’s Art & Photography Shopping Page on Amazon! Supplies, Videos +++ 😊 My Amazon Affiliate Update 11.02.19
“…some of the products I list in my Idea pages, can and have changed my artistic life. My Cannon camera. My supply of pure Marble Dust (still in its infancy experimentally). Possibly this new projector….”
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My Day Ahead – Oct 27, 2019
My daily updates on goings on in my life re family, fitness, the arts, and blogging 😊 – value studies in art; Dianne Mize
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My Day Ahead – Oct 15, 2019
My daily updates on goings on in my life re family, fitness, the arts, and blogging 😊
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My Day Ahead – Sept 05, 2019
“Less compressed in terms of driving all over the city, but definitely planning on one more SilverSneakers yoga class at Gold’s Gym before surgery tomorrow. I’m first on the list in the morning. Must be a habit of mine, being the oldest of 6 and all 😊 “
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What Should I Do Right Before My Surgery? Fix Up My Art Room!! 😊
“If my recovery from tomorrow’s hiatal surgery trails (as per the Dr’s) slightly longer than my emergency gallbladder surgery from the end of June, it’ll be early to mid November before I feel as able and wanting to do things as right now – sounds, with my wife’s help…”
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My Day Ahead – Sept 04, 2019
“Getting up after being cut up and sewn back up, esp getting up and dragging the IV stand to the bathroom each time I need to go, is a dance of not-stumbling, lol!”
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My Day Ahead – Sept 03, 2019
“We knew she had a long day today – hairdresser then groceries at Sprouts; and I have a long day Wednesday – possibly to the printer for posters, then to the Old Bakery & Emporium to help take down the previous month’s art show plus restock some of my sold prints (a nice chore to…
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My Day Ahead – Sept 02, 2019
Happy Labor Day weekend everyone! ⛵️ 🎉 🍺 🍕
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My Day Ahead – Sept 01, 2019
Happy Labor Day weekend everyone! ⛵️ 🎉 🍺 🍕
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My Day Ahead – Aug 31, 2019
Happy start of Labor Day weekend everyone! ⛵️ 🎉 🍺 🍕
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My Day Ahead – Aug 30, 2019
“I’ve been needing a quick formatting posting routine for days like today, lol 😂 ”
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