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Painting Tutorial – Rooster

06 Monday Apr 2020

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acrylic painting, art, artist, instructional painting video, painting, painting tutorial, painting video, rooster painting, things to do during quarantine

As promised, here’s another of the acrylic painting tutorials I filmed a couple years ago. Sit back and enjoy watching, or get out your paints and canvas and paint along! This includes step-by-step instructions for how to both teach or just create the painting. Enjoy!

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Painting Tutorial – Solace

01 Wednesday Apr 2020

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covid-19, how to paint, painting, painting tutorial, painting with acrylic, stuff to do, things to do, tutorial

Hey guess what? I haven’t posted anything in almost a year, but, like many of you, I’m stuck at home while covid-19 continues living it up and being a twatwaddle. So I thought I’d take a moment to repost some videos that might entertain you. These include step-by-step instructions for how to do some of the paintings I used to teach when I had the paint and sip studio. Or, just treat it like a Bob Ross video and get your zen on while watching me paint. First up, the painting titled Solace.

https://emilypageart.net/2018/04/23/acrylic-painting-tutorial-for-solace/

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Engine #25

03 Thursday Jan 2019

Posted by emilypageart in art, death, dementia, family, painting, Uncategorized

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acrylic painting, art, dad, death, dementia, Emily Page, Emily Page Art, grief, painting, painting of train, train buff, train painting, what to give a train lover

I started 2019 off the correct way: in the art studio. And it felt so good. I’ve been so busy and exhausted that I haven’t been painting much lately. But I took Tuesday off and just painted what I wanted to paint. And it was a good thing. And it was a bad thing. Because what I chose to paint was this:

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Engine #25 acrylic on canvas 24″ x 30″ $750  *links for purchasing the original and for prints and such at the end of the post

You know, ’cause my dad was a train freak. Next month will be the third anniversary of my dad’s death, and between that knowledge and the holidays, I’ve been missing him something fierce. About a month ago, S poppped in some of my old home movies, and I got to watch my dad in his 30’s – younger than I am now. And, for the first time since he was diagnosed with dementia, it made me actually feel happy to watch. I really enjoyed it. And then I started having nightmares about him again. WTF is that? I wasn’t sad watching those videos, so why did they spark a new round of “Dadmares?”

And now I’m struggling again. Every time I feel like I’m getting back to normal, thinking about him a little less and with less pain, I get thrown back in. And what I’m thrown into, more than anything, is those final, horrible days with him, when he was hurting so much and my mom and I couldn’t make it better for him. It just fucking haunts me. I worked so hard to make sure that I had as few regrets as possible as we cared for him following his diagnosis. I’ve dealt with enough death to know that regret that can’t ever be remedied is not something I want to deal with again. So I set out to do things right with my dad. And I did. I’m proud of how fiercely I worked to love him and advocate for him. But there wasn’t anything we could do at the end.

It’s not so much regret, I suppose, as just grief that I was so helpless to make his pain stop. Watching someone you love suffer for that long…it just stays with you. And most of the time, when I think of him, that’s what I think of. I flashback to sitting in the hallway outside of his room after about 48 hours of watching him writhe and moan, and just losing my shit while a CNA watched helplessly. I flashback to lying on his bed and whispering soothing things in his ear to try to distract him from the pain. I flashback to feeling so tired it made me queasy, and ignoring the death rattle for close to an hour because I just couldn’t make myself open my eyes and get out of the recliner one more time to check on him.

Here I am, three years later, still desperate to make his pain stop, even though he’s already long gone. I don’t know how to let it go. So for now, I’m just painting something that made him happy in the hopes that it’ll make me happy.

*Original available here. Prints and stickers and phone cases and t-shirts and such available here, here, and here.

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HOLIDAY SALES – They’re a Thing Around These Here Parts

27 Tuesday Nov 2018

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art, artist, artwork for sale, coupon, discount, Emily Page, Emily Page Art, Emily Page artist, holiday sales, painting, painting for sale, sales

That’s right. You may not have heard, but holiday sales are a thing, apparently. And guess what? They’re a thing on my website. I’ve got more paintings than I know what to do with, and you’ve got friends and family that need art to brighten up their homes and offices. Sounds like a perfect match. Come to think of it, your home and office could really use some brightening, too. No judgment, but you should really fix that.

Now until December 31st, I’m offering 25% off all orders over $100. Use Coupon Code HOLIDAY2018 when you check out. And note that I’m running the sale until the end of the year, so, if you want, you can sit down with the person you’re buying for and let them choose what painting they’re getting. Because I’m nice like that. And because I’m desperate like that.

So go to https://shop.emilypageart.com and order your artwork now! If you’re more interested in prints of my art or merchandise with my artwork on it, you can find those here, here, here, and here.

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Pin-Up Filigree

05 Friday Oct 2018

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art, artist, black and white portrait, Emily Page, Emily Page artist, filigree, harley quinn makeup, oil on canvas, oil painting, painting, pin-up girl, Raleigh artist, tattoo studio

My fellow tattoo artist at Ratatat Tats, Julio, loves drawings and paintings of women with Harley Quinn clown makeup. He had a bare wall in his studio room, so as a suprise, I made him two paintings. I took the pin-up girl style, added the clown makeup, and then, because he frequently suggests filling in space around tattoos with “some filigree and some roses,” I included each in these sister paintings as a little insider joke. I’ll post one painting today (the one with the filigree) and one tomorrow. Both are available as prints, shirts, dresses, pillows, mugs, and other fun swag. Links below the image.

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Pin-Up Filigree 20″ x 16″ oil on canvas

Merchandise available here and here.

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At Least We Still Have Tomatoes

28 Friday Sep 2018

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basil painting, Emily Page, Emily Page Art, Emily Page artist, garlic painting, kitchen art, kitchen painting, photorealism, produce painting, realism, realist art, realist painting, still life, still life painting, tomato painting, vegetable painting, vegetable still life, veggie still life

I finally set up one of the spare rooms at the tattoo studio so that I could do some painting on my down time. I had started this painting almost 2 years ago, but after doing several veggie paintings, I sort of burned out on them for a little while. I finally decided to sit down and finish this little guy, and now I love it!

I finished it while listening to the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing, which was upsetting me for various reasons. I feel like our world is shifting in a very scary direction. That’s why I named the painting, “At Least We Still Have Tomatoes.” Silver lining, right?

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At Least We Still Have Tomatoes 8″x 10″ oil on board $250

Original available here. Prints and other merchandise available here, here, and here.

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Zooey

20 Thursday Sep 2018

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Emily Page, Emily Page Art, equestrian, equine, horse, oil painting, photorealism, pony, realism, realist painting, white horse, white pony

There’s this super cute pony, Zooey, at the stable where my mom boards her horse, and all the little kids learn to ride on her. For a pony, she’s pretty darn sweet, and, obviously, adorable. So I decided to do a little painting of her:

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Zooey 10″ x 8″ oil on board $250

Original for sale here. Prints and other fun merchandise available here, here, and here.

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That Tattoo Girl

26 Thursday Jul 2018

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art merchandise, Emily Page tattoo, figurative art, figurative painting, merchandise, oil on canvas, oil painting, painting, Raleigh artist, raleigh tattoo, Ratatat Tats, tattoo, tattoo art, tattoo merchandise, tattoo sleeve, tattoo studio

In our larger bathroom at the tattoo studio, we had a wall with no art on it still, so S finally told me to buy a large canvas and make something new to hang there. Squeeee! Any excuse to make big art. You know I love me some figurative art, so, I painted this:

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Introspection 36″ x 36″ oil on canvas

But because it’s a tattoo studio, I didn’t stop there, lol:

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That Tattoo Girl 36″ x 36″ oil on canvas

That’s right, I gave her a full tattoo sleeve, because hell yeah.

Both images are available as prints and on various merchandise on Fine Art America (here and here), RedBubble (here and here), and CafePress (here and here).

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Generation

22 Friday Jun 2018

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Emily Page Art, Emily Page artist, fabric painting, map painting, oil on canvas, oil painting, Raleigh artist, realism, surrealism, triptych, world map

I have some friends who are actually amazing art patrons. They’ve bought a lot of my art and commissioned paintings over the last few years. They had a big open wall in their dining room that needed art, so they commissioned me to create another piece for them. They had seen this painting hanging in my tattoo studio and really liked it, so we used that as a jumping off point:

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The Very Fabric

The husband collects maps, so I decided to add that as a component of the painting I was creating for them. I was giddy getting to work on large canvases again! Here is the finished triptych I just hung in their home:

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Generation 36″ x 72″ oil and sharpie on canvas triptych

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Blowing Rock Bottles

24 Thursday May 2018

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art, bottles painting, Emily Page, Emily Page Art, hanging bottles, lavender painting, oil painting, photorealism, Raleigh artist, realism, realist art, realist painting

Every year, the hubs and I and some friends meet up in Blowing Rock, NC and rent a cabin. There’s a seriously cute little main street with boutiques and restaurants and such where we spend the afternoon strolling and shopping. One of the stores is painted with soft lavenders and creams and greys, and I used it as inspiration for the colors in my tattoo studio room. Outside of the store is a tiny little garden, and at one point, they had bottles and bits of chandelier glass hanging over it, and I fell in love with the scene it created. So I photographed it and now, several years later, finally sat down and finished painting it.

I have to admit that, even though I’m having fun learning tattooing, it’s not as satisfying a medium for me as painting. It’s hard to predict exactly how each piece of skin will react to different techniques, and you have to get it right the first time. There’s no changing your mind halfway through and starting over with a better idea. It’s harder to “tweak” to get it perfect. And the feel of the tattoo machine isn’t even close to the feel of a paintbrush and paint. Too much rattle to be soothing to me. So on my one day off a week, I’m trying hard to get into the painting studio and enjoy a little gushy fun.

Anyway, here is the painting:

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Blowing Rock Bottles 12″ x 12″ oil on board $400

The original is for sale here. For now, you can find prints and cuff links and keepsake boxes and other fun thingsies here, here, and here.

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