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my original paintings art work, # 2
” rock point, vermont “
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if a picture is worth a thousand words, a painting then, is either worth none, or more than can be said –
and either count could signify like or dislike
so, i’m not gonna try that 😉
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- Adan Lerma
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below, is my painting of Rock Point in Vermont, from 1986
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Where?
rock point is an interesting geological formation off the north beach area of burlington, and extends out onto lake champlain
my wife, sheila, is from vermont, and grew up near rock point
and her high school is near the beach vicinity [1]
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Why?
sheila’s dad, like my dad, was a big burly man; with both men sporting hearts to fit their chests, and proud of it 😉
her dad had taken a photo of rock point, on one of the trips we made there from galveston
we’d usually take all three kids, including one time on an amtrak journey from houston to burlington – the kids’ memories of that trip differ interestingly from sheila and mine’s remembrances 😉
while in vermont, mid august, a “little” cooler than i was used to back home 😉 we had a large family swimming day at north beach, then hiked around the lake’s edge over to about where rock point was – our kids, sheila’s nephews, brothers, her parents, us – it was quite a day, beautiful sky, light breeze, dry-ish air…
he asked me if i thought i could do a painting of rock point from the photo, as we were already back in texas
this painting was the result, and stayed with him til he passed
rock point has been with us since
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How?
in the 80’s, i was still painting with acrylics (for ease of clean-up with a house of children and pets) and had been mostly creating abstracted designs of things
so painting rock point was a bit of creative challenge for me
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not knowing which way to go with it, i began with a light undercoat, in case i needed to repaint over it, and start again
this turned out to be a lucky start, because the darker pigments, scumbled onto the canvas (and acrylics dry fast, so lend themselves to this technique) allowed a tinted glow to peek out from the lighter colors below
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Detail
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yoga is so many things, among them adaptation
as i adapted my painting style for a purpose back then in the mid 80’s, so now, on our approaching move to vermont, we adapt again
namaste – con dios – god be with you
adan’s orignal paintings series
video of lake champlain featuring rock point latter half [ link added 092411 ]
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footnotes
[1] there’s lots of old postcard images online now that are fun to see
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