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Spokes

18 Friday Nov 2016

Posted by emilypageart in art, humor, painting, Uncategorized

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art, artist, bicycle, bike, cycling, oil on board, oil painting, painter, spokes, sports, wheel

I seriously need to stop doing paintings with long, straight, skinny lines. It’s not good for my stress level and mental health. Regardless, since I had all those photos from the bicycle shop that I took for the bike brake painting that someone commissioned, I thought I’d whip out another a painting based on those photos. Sure, no problem. Straight lines? I laugh in the face of straight lines…and then I cry myself to sleep, knowing full well that I brought this pain upon myself.

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Spokes 5″ x 5″ oil on board $100

Original available at http://shop.emilypageart.com/t/realist-works.

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The Photo Vs. The Painting

09 Wednesday Nov 2016

Posted by emilypageart in art, painting, Uncategorized

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art, artist, avocado, bicycle, bike, bottles, cherry tomato, food art, garlic, kitchen art, oil on board, oil painting, paint, painter, painting, photography, photorealism, piano pedal, realism, realist art

Since I posted about how I often have to work from crummy photos (here and here), I thought you might enjoy seeing some of the photos next to the paintings to see what I mean. I’m sometimes left guessing. Other times, I guess and then ignore what the photo is showing me to make a bolder choice. Simply making easy changes like background color can completely alter the feel of a image, as can pushing the contrast between your highlights and shadows. I view the photos as a jumping off point. It’s good for reference, but I’m not bound to it (which is good since the photos are often pretty bad in the first place).First up is the Avocado and Cherry Tomatoes:

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The crummy photo

Avocado and Cherry Tomatoes

The awesome painting (I say very humbly)

Next is a garlic one:

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Garlic III

And then some garlic cloves:

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And piano pedals:

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piano-pedals

And, finally, the hanging bottles painting:

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hanging-bottles

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I Want To Ride My Bicycle, I Want To Ride My Biiiiiike

03 Thursday Nov 2016

Posted by emilypageart in art, painting, Uncategorized

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art, artist, bicycle, bike, biking, commission, metal, oil on board, oil painting, paint, painter, painting, realism, realist art

Now that I’ve put that song in your head (picture me laughing maniacally here), guess what? I just completed a new painting! I haven’t had nearly as much painting time lately as I’d like, but a friend had commissioned a painting of a bicycle so I had to get my rear in gear (get it, gear, like, a bike has…oh never mind, that was a terrible joke) and get it done. As you all well know, I’m a masochist and I always choose the worst things to paint: metal, water, tiny-veined plants, and straight lines. This covered two out of four, so I was kind of cursing myself for being too ambitious, but after a lot of playing with it, I’m happy with the final result. This one also had the added challenge of having to go to a bike shop to take photos to work from, and the staff thought I was bonkers when I started lying on the ground to take close-up shots. They wouldn’t agree to let me take any of the bikes outside for photos, so I was stuck with crummy lighting and had to make the best of it. This meant that there was a lot of guesswork while I was actually painting, but such is life. Here’s the finished product:

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Bike Break 12″ x 12″ oil on board

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