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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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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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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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Dilly Dilly

22 Tuesday May 2018

Posted by emilypageart in art, humor, music, painting, Uncategorized

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cairn, eggs, lavender, lavender blue dilly dilly, lavender bouquet, oil painting, painting, realism, realist art, realist painting, robin eggs, robin's egg painting, robin's nest, robin's nest painting, stacked rocks, stacked stone, still life, still life painting, wooden box

Well, my migraine finally broke after several days (during which I still managed to do several tattoos, because I am a superhero…or at least, because I wore superhero underpants. That’s the same thing, right?), and I got in a lot of painting yesterday. I finally finished two pieces I’ve been working on forever. Here’s the first, which is a little still life I have sitting in my tattoo studio room. I posted it on Facebook and asked for suggestions for naming it. Someone suggested “Lavender Blue,” which put that damn song (for a truly obnoxious rebooted version of the song, click here) in my head for the last 24+ hours, so I’ve decided to be evil and put an ear worm out there for everyone who reads the painting title. Mwuahahahaaaaa! I give you, “Dilly Dilly.”

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Dilly Dilly 9″ x 12″ oil on board $300

The original is available here. You can find prints and mugs and greeting cards and a million other fun stuffsies here and here and here.

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Acrylic Painting Tutorial for Solace

23 Monday Apr 2018

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Artistic Abandon, instructional painting video, paint and pour, paint and sip, painting, painting video, sip and paint, tree blossom painting, tree painting, wine and design

Here’s a tutorial for how to teach (or just paint) one of Artistic Abandon’s most popular paintings, Solace. Enjoy!

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Tattoo Idea

26 Monday Mar 2018

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art, art nouveau, art nouveau female, art nouveau girl, art nouveau woman, artist, Emily Page Art, Emily Page artist, learning to tattoo, painting, Ratatat Tats, tattoo, tattoo apprentice, tattoo apprenticeship, tattooing

One of the things I’m figuring out as I learn tattooing is to think a little differently in how I create artwork. You don’t approach a tattoo the same way you work with acrylic or oil paints. It’s kind of similar to watercolor and drawing, except not. The order you do everything is different, and like when I was learning how to sculpt out of foam, I struggle to make my brain wrap around something that is totally different from everything I know. It’s different from what I’m used to being good at, so this is kind of a painful process for me. I hate being mediocre. To struggle at art, the one thing I’m actually really confident at doing, is really uncomfortable. But I want to learn, so I’m pushing through the discomfort and trying to grow as I learn this new medium.

In an effort to learn without the pressure of making something perfect that’ll be on someone’s body forever, I’m returning to canvas and paper and trying to create works that would translate well onto skin. I’ve seen some really fantastic tattoos of women, and I’d love to do one soon. So I’m playing around with ideas. If anyone wants to let me tattoo this one on them, lemme know. I know it’s a long shot, but I figure it can’t hurt to ask, right?

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If you’re not up for getting this as a tattoo, but would like a print, t-shirt, tote bag, laptop skin, sticker, shower curtain, or just about anything else, you can get it here and here.

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Name That Painting Results

26 Monday Feb 2018

Posted by emilypageart in art, painting, Uncategorized

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abstract art, abstract painting, art, artist, artwork, crowd sourcing, Emily Page Art, Emily Page artist, how to name your painting, name that painting, oil painting, painting

Alrightyroo! Thanks to everyone who contributed ideas for names for several of my abstract paintings. Suggestions mostly came in on Facebook. Without further ado, here are the ones I’ve chosen from your offerings:

Abstract I

Dreamweaver 48″ x 84″ oil on canvas

Thank you to Amanda Weber for the title, “Dreamweaver.” Prints and things available here and here.

Abstract II

Lava’n You 18″ x 24″ oil on canvas

Thank you to Alfreda Melvin for the title, “Lava’n You.” Prints and such available here and here.

Abstract Cityscape I

Forgotten 30″ x 26″ oil on canvas

Thank you to Cassie Haggert for the title, “Forgotten.” Prints and swag available here and here.

Abstract Cityscape in Blue

Metropolis in Blue 18″ x 24″ oil on canvas

Thank you to Shannon Chappell for the title, “Metropolis in Blue.” Prints and schtuffs available here and here.

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