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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:

garlic cloves.jpg

Garlic cloves.jpg

And piano pedals:

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piano-pedals

And, finally, the hanging bottles painting:

bottles 1.JPG

hanging-bottles

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Hanging Bottles

22 Thursday Sep 2016

Posted by emilypageart in art, painting, Uncategorized

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art, artist, bottles, Emily Page, Emily Page Art, oil on board, oil painting, paint, painting, Raleigh artist, realism, realist art

New painting, everyone!! I forgot to bring my good camera home with me, so I don’t have a great final photo of it yet (and there’s still a serious shine on it because it needs a few days to dry), but I’m too excited about it to wait any longer to post it. I’ve taken pics along the way so you can watch the progression:

bottles-1

bottles-2

bottles-3

bottles

hanging-bottles

“Hanging Bottles” 11″ x 14″ oil on board

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I Love the First Steps of a Painting

13 Wednesday Jul 2016

Posted by emilypageart in art, painting, Uncategorized

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art, artist, bottles, clock, Emily Page Art, oil on board, oil painting, paint, painting, piano

Is it weird that I really love the very early stage of a painting? I usually start by sketching the subject on either in pencil or in umber. Once I’m happy with the composition, I’ll paint in the background if it’s going to be a relatively simply one. I like starting with a simple background because it eases you into the painting slowly. It allows you to add color without detail and gives you a better sense of what the colors in the subject will look like against the backdrop. Once it’s on there, the background has to dry for a couple days. Strangely, I find myself coming back into the studio periodically to look at the painting in this stage. There’s something really satisfying about it because there’s nothing to critique or be frustrated with, and I love the contrast of the usually bright colors I choose for simple backgrounds next to the flat brown prepared board. The totally unfinished next to the slightly finished just tickles my sight buds (they’re like taste buds, but in your eyes).

Anyway, here are several that are drying right now after that first layer of background color:

backgrounds first layer

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