Felipe Adan Lerma
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A Little Fiction About the Truth I Felt in Paris 2012 – “Slumming in Paris Part 6”
The recent tragic loss in Paris at Notre Dame, and the heroic efforts that helped mitigate it, has torn at our emotions and reminded me I had sensed and seen the mettle of the French culture and people via the beauty and monuments to their past when my wife and I stayed in the Latin…
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Paris in 5 1/2 Weeks : Around Notre Dame – Day 3, via Felipe Adan Lerma
My wife Sheila and I, even back in the autumn of 2012, were of course aware of then learned much more of the incredible history of Paris and it’s iconic areas inside the old city walls. We learned that a previous church had occupied the same spot on the island on the Seine as Notre…
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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 – Walking With Birds
This image from Butler Park is as close as I have to my bird adventure on my morning walk today around the old Austin neighborhood of Bouldin. My creaky 68 year old body was just beginning to limber into a gentle loping pace when….
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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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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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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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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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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, 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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Spotted Treasure – My New Butterfly Photo at Fine Art America
Spotted Treasure, an action or an object?
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Recently Sold by Felipe Adan Lerma at Fine Art America Plus New Work
Below is the text of my short Fine Art America (FAA) newsletter I sent out recently, so this is a reblogged of sorts 🙂 If you would like to subscribe to my newsletter at FAA (sent out once or twice a month at most), please sign up at – https://fineartamerica.com/subscribememberemaillist.html?memberidtype=artistid&memberid=459979 . Each of my images at FAA…
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New Bird Image! Black Bird At Central Market
The one black bird still hanging around mid-morning after breakfast outside Central Market’s cafe patiently let me position myself around him until I had the perspective I really liked 😊
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New Paris Image! Arc de Triomphe by Bus Tour Greeting Card Poster
Taken during a trip to Paris my wife and I took several years ago, Arc de Triomphe, along with Eiffel Tower, is one of two images from a special night bus tour that I’ve uploaded to Fine Art America (with more to come.
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New! Sunrise Sunset Photos From Costa Rica – la Pura Vida!
Not only is the imagery in Costa Rica wonderful, the people are warm and gracious and the food is remarkably preservative free! Be aware though, electricity is expensive (as the first country moves to 100% renewable energy) and the weather is hot – even for a Texas boy like myself :)
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Welcome 2017!
Hello 2017! Happy New Year everyone 🙂 It’s been so long since I last posted, my entire WordPress setup for posting has changed, lol! Needless to say I’ve tried all sorts of ways to get myself to post regularly again and failed. I seem much more suited for Twitter’s image-short txt format, and somewhat to…
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Twitter Recap for @felipeadanlerma
March 30, 2016 I’m gonna try out a new format for my blog posts. Since I spend most of my time on Twitter now, at least vs FB & my website, I thought I’d try out an idea I read recently. Basically, every few days, or as often as seems best, I can embed hand…
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Paris – City of Love – Endures
Paris – City of Love – Endures There is a reason Paris, in one form or another, has endured from before the Romans, through the Nazis, and now today, early into our 21st century. Love. ***Side Image, Paris Street ©Felipe Adan Lerma *** “a beginner’s view: the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body…
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You’re Not Alone: An Indie Author Anthology: Reviews Links and Excerpts, Part 1 – 100% of Proceeds to Charity
You’re Not Alone: An Indie Author Anthology: Reviews Links and Excerpts, Part 1 – 100% of Proceeds to Charity (from product page description) : An international group of indie authors, inspired by the personal grief of one, decided to collaborate in the spring of 2015 in a project to create this multi-genre smorgasbord of original…
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Public Morals Season Finale : Do Endings Matter?
Public Morals Season Finale : Do Endings Matter? Is good writing, great acting, and an intriguing combo of social and family issues from the early 60s enough to make a show good, or potentially great? Definitely. But like a good or potentially great book, the ending has to work. Did the Season One finale for…
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You’re Not Alone: An Indie Author Anthology – 100% of Proceeds to Charity
You’re Not Alone: An Indie Author Anthology – 100% of Proceeds to Charity (from product page description) : An international group of indie authors, inspired by the personal grief of one, decided to collaborate in the spring of 2015 in a project to create this multi-genre smorgasbord of original short stories, all with the same…
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Queen : New thriller in progress – Lingering: Adding Reader Depth and Involvement
Queen New thriller in progress – Lingering: Adding Reader Depth and Involvement Image on left: One Night in the Hill Country Thriller novella, set in Texas. Immigrant and illegal children caught in a mad man’s plan to stop child abuse. Featuring former police officer Samantha (Sam) Lacroix. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MXGMN68 Reviews: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MXGMN68#customerReviews Sample review: By Robert on…
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Queen : New thriller in progress – Conflicting Priorities: Reality Meets Fiction
Queen New thriller in progress – Conflicting Priorities: Reality Meets Fiction Image on left: One Night in the Hill Country Thriller novella, set in Texas. Immigrant and illegal children caught in a mad man’s plan to stop child abuse. Featuring former police officer Samantha (Sam) Lacroix. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MXGMN68 Reviews: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MXGMN68#customerReviews Sample review: By Mr. P. Ruddock…
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Queen : New thriller in progress – Transitioning Multiple Point of Views and Settings
Queen New thriller in progress – Transitioning multiple point of views and settings. Image on left: One Night in the Hill Country Thriller novella, set in Texas. Immigrant and illegal children caught in a mad man’s plan to stop child abuse. Featuring former police officer Samantha (Sam) Lacroix. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MXGMN68 Reviews: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MXGMN68#customerReviews Sample review: By P.…
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Queen : New thriller in progress – deepening point of view, part 2
Queen New thriller in progress – deepening point of view, part 2. Image on left: One Night in the Hill Country Thriller novella, set in Texas. Immigrant and illegal children caught in a mad man’s plan to stop child abuse. Featuring former police officer Samantha (Sam) Lacroix. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MXGMN68 Reviews: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MXGMN68#customerReviews Sample review: By European author…
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Queen : New thriller in progress – Deepening Point of View, part 1
Queen New thriller in progress – deepening point of view, part 1. Image on left: One Night in the Hill Country Thriller novella, set in Texas. Immigrant and illegal children caught in a mad man’s plan to stop child abuse. Featuring former police officer Samantha (Sam) Lacroix. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MXGMN68 Reviews: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MXGMN68#customerReviews Sample: Author Diana Ferby –…
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It’s Been a Long Night of Hate, and Dawn Has Just Begun to Break
It’s Been a Long Night of Hate, and Dawn Has Just Begun to Break Image on left: Cover: One Night in the Hill Country Thriller novella, set in Texas. Immigrant and illegal children caught in a mad man’s plan to stop child abuse. Featuring former police officer Samantha (Sam) Lacroix. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MXGMN68 *** “a beginner’s view:…
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Biking Across Lake Champlain Vermont – Four Years in the Making 🚴♀️
“Making it to the bike ferry itself, about 3 or 4/5 of the way across, was a major milestone 😊 “
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Header # 21 – Vermont, Lake Champlain, Summer 2015
New Header : # 21 – Vermont, Lake Champlain, Summer 2015 A state of mind, a way of being. *** “a beginner’s view: the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…” Site Areas Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks *** Header #…
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Info Links for Joe Konrath’s Jack Daniels Kindle Worlds @ Amazon
Info Links for: Joe Konrath’s Jack Daniels Kindle Worlds @ Amazon *** Pictured Left : An Unforeseen-Conventional Morning Currently available on Amazon in Kindle Worlds A 20 page, 5000 word, action thriller short, pairing my fictional character Sam (Samantha Lacroix) with Joe Konrath’s iconic well known character, Jack Daniels. Set in Chicago. *** “the intent…
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My Joe Konrath, Jack Daniels, Kindle Worlds Short Story – An Unforeseen-Conventional Morning
My Joe Konrath, Jack Daniels, Kindle Worlds Short Story – An Unforeseen-Conventional Morning *** Pictured Left : An Unforeseen-Conventional Morning Currently available on Amazon in Kindle Worlds A 20 page, 5000 word, action thriller short, pairing my fictional character Sam (Samantha Lacroix) with Joe Konrath’s iconic well known character, Jack Daniels. Set in Chicago. ***…
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Opinion: Why eBook Sales Have Flattened : Discover-ability
Opinion: Why eBook Sales Have Flattened – Discover-ability *** Pictured Left : One Night in the Hill Country – a thriller Currently available on Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited 5 star review : “Felipe Adan Lerma has written a fast paced book that will keep you engrossed and entertained. My only issue was that at…
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