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Weekly Tattoo Wrap-Up #19

13 Thursday Dec 2018

Posted by emilypageart in art, tattooing, Uncategorized

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bulldog tattoo, cary tattoo, cover-up tattoo, eagles logo, female tattoo artist, floral tattoo, flying pig tattoo, lady gaga tattoo, mom tattoo, polar bear tattoo, raleigh tattoo, Ratatat Tats, tattoo, tattoo artist, tattoo cover up, tulip poplar tattoo, wolf tattoo

It’s SLOW here. Soooooo sloooooow. It huuuuuuuurts. So there hasn’t been a ton of stuff to post. But here’s what I can share from the last couple of weeks:

Aaron Walker - polar bear

For a customer who is slowly getting tattoos that represent all of her dogs. This is for a dog she calls Polar Bear because he’s so big and white and fluffy.

Adam Agostini - Eagles logo

No explanation needed.

bulldog - Rob Tolentino

Doggie portrait

dandelion and saying - Chritine Rafter

I don’t really recommend foot tattoos, but the customer was forwarned that they don’t last as well. But since she went ahead and got it, it’s pretty darn cute, I think.

flying pig - Linda Tolentino

This customer’s first tattoo – because she believes anything is possible.

heat with mom - Kaleb Barker

Nice twist on MOM in a heart.

Ki Hids

From a Shel Silverstein book. Yes, it IS supposed to say “Ki Hids.”

Krista Prince bouquet addition

This customer had had a bad experience at another tattoo shop and didn’t trust the tattoo artist to finish and fix the tattoo. Luckily, we were able to finish it up so that she was happy with it.

lady gaga watercolor - Jason Snyder

This is my brush with fame. This guy is the cousin of Esther the Wonder Pig (i.e., his cousin owns Esther).

Mason Whitaker completed

This was a cover-up I posted a while back. It used to be a dream catcher. Finally got to finish it.

tulip poplar - Liz Underwood

A tulip poplar for a customer who I’ve known for years thanks to the sip and paint business I used to own.

 

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(Not So) Weekly Tattoo Wrap-Up #18 (Part 1)

17 Saturday Nov 2018

Posted by emilypageart in art, tattooing, Uncategorized

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cary tattoo, collar bone tattoo, cross and banner tattoo, cross tattoo, Emily Page tattoo, flower tattoo, hamburglar, lion tattoo, passport stamp, playing card tattoo, raleigh tattoo, Ratatat Tats, tattoo, tattoo artist, tattoo studio, tattooing, tribal tattoo

Holy shit, I’m behind on these supposed weekly tattoo wrap-ups, you guys!! Mostly, because reasons. And also, because less legitimate reasons. So I’m going to break this one up over a couple posts because there are just a fucklot of tattoos to share with you. So here’s the first installment, going all the way back to October:

Playing cards - Gio

For a guy who hasn’t found love yet, but really believes in it.

Lion - Jordan Thomas

Roar.

tribal - Tristan Miller

Recognize the pocket watch on the left? He came back for the tribal across his collar bone…

cross and banner - Tristan Miller

…and this cross and banner one. I swear, this guy sits so quietly I’ve decided he’s impervious to pain.

Flower chain - McKinnea Estridge

This girl came in with her parents to get this for her 18th birthday.

Aaron Walker - Hamburglar

One of my regulars is getting memorial tattoos for all of her dogs. They called one of her dogs The Hamburglar, so…

passport stamps - Nick Juers

I think getting passport stamps for the places you’ve been is such a cool idea. It was fun trying to get the tattoo to look like actual stamps.

ship and whale - Morgan Schore

No real story here, but it’s cool tattoo.

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Weekly Tattoo Wrap-Up #17

09 Tuesday Oct 2018

Posted by emilypageart in art, tattooing, Uncategorized

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cary tattoo, chain tattoo, commemorative tattoo, cover-up tattoo, cystic fibrosis, cystic fibrosis tattoo, Emily Page, Emily Page tattoo, morning glory tattoo, oni mask, oni mask tattoo, raleigh tattoo, Ratatat Tats, sixty-five roses, snake tattoo, stopwatch, stopwatch tattoo, sunflower tattoo, tattoo, x-ray flower tattoo

I’m a day late and eleventy-twelve dollars short on the weekly tattoo wrap-up. Sorry. It’s been a really good couple weeks. I mean, not if you’re woman, or a person of color, or really, anyone who’s not a conservative white male. But tattoo-wise, it’s been a good couple weeks – especially for women. It was a week of empowerment for several of my female friends/customers. So, we’ll start with those, then tack on a couple tattoos I did for guys just for funsies.

First up, the cover-ups. I keep forgetting to take pics before I’ve drawn on them or stenciled on what I’ll be covering with, but here you go:

cover-up X-ray flower - Stephanie Watson

For a customer who turned 45 and said she was too old for “boob cherries” and that it was time for a grown-up tattoo.

 

cover up star - Hannah

For a friend who had outgrown her old tattoo.

Sunflower cover-up - Italia

For a customer who needed to get rid of her ex’s initials.

morning glories - Lisa Latu

For one of my favorite customers (who happens to have MS) who wanted to commemorate her family. I really love this one. It wraps all the way around and there are song lyrics and an MS ribbon on the inside of her wrist. And one of the morning glory vines says “Bomba” which is what her grandfather called her.

Love Mom - Sarah Dewan

For a friend who lost her mom to breast cancer a few years ago. She’d been looking for her mom’s handwriting everywhere and couldn’t find it. Then she suddenly stumbled across it and she’d signed it with this. Not gonna lie, we both teared up when we put this on her.

Sixty-five roses - AJ Darling

This one was really special to me: a girl I’ve known since she was 9 years old drove from VA to get a tattoo from me to celebrate having reached her 35th year. This is a big deal, because she’s got cystic fibrosis, and not too long ago, kids with CF really didn’t live beyond their early 20’s at best because their lungs gave up. She got “just breathe” on her rib cage when she turned 30. When they teach kids about cystic fibrosis, they often teach them to call it “sixty-five roses,” because it’s easier to remember, so we went with that theme for this tattoo. I’m so honored to be able to help my friend commemorate having made it this far. Looking forward to giving her the next tattoo when she hits 40.

I also had a customer who got 6 small tattoos to help her leave her divorce behind and move forward into the next phase of her life, but I didn’t snap photos because it would have required me to take my gloves off 6 times to use my phone, and that was a royal pain. But take my word for it, they were lovely.

I also-also got a message from a friend who I’ve tattooed several times who thanked me for helping her start to love parts of her body that she’s always been ashamed of. Having something beautiful on her body makes her accept and love it more. Best message I’ve gotten in a long time.

And now for the guys:

chains-alashuan-hunter.jpg

Not entirely clear what the story was here. He said it had something to do with anime and there being links on the chain of life.

stopwatch - Tristan Miller

Not sure this one requires much of an explanation. But damn, y’all, tattooing circles is haaaaaard. Why are stopwatches round?!!

And finally, I had a young man come in who sat for two 5-hour sessions and it was his very first tattoo. He had a pain tolerance like you wouldn’t believe, but he was also a Crohn’s sufferer, so maybe he’s used to pain? Also, he lost his dad to the same disease as my dad when he was only 9 years old. Made me super grateful that I had my dad for as long as I did:

Oni mask half sleeve - Sean Doherty_compressed

Not the greatest picture, but it’s an oni mask and snake. I’ll try to get a better one once it has healed. You can see a video of the whole thing on my instagram feed (@emilypageart).

And that’s it for the week. See? Some good things for some good people. So even though America is going to hell in supreme court justice robe, we still have individual wins to celebrate. Hang in there, friends.

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Weekly Tattoo Wrap-up # 16

24 Monday Sep 2018

Posted by emilypageart in art, tattooing, Uncategorized

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broken heart tattoo, cary tattoo, Emily Page, Emily Page tattoo, goodbyes, ladybug tattoo, lavender tattoo, lighthouse tattoo, mandala tattoo, nautical tattoo, raleigh tattoo, Ratatat Tats, tattoo, tattoo artist, tattooing, yoga tattoo

After a lousy week due to the hurricane, this week was a lot more interesting. I turned 41, for one thing, which wasn’t my favorite thing. It was one thing to have to say I was 40. It’s a whole other thing having to say that I’m “in my 40’s.” Le sigh. But I got to do a few fun tattoos and I wasn’t bored out of my skull while stuck at home waiting for the storm to kill me. First up was this trio of tattoos a yoga practitioner requested:

Andrea Shipman - breathe
Andrea Shipman - rise
Andrea Shipman - root
Fox mandala - Lindsay Easley

The customer wanted 2 foxes coming out of a tunnel that was also a mandala, so…

lavender - Kash Nizami

I wish I had taken a photo from farther away because this was on the customer’s sternum, and it just looked so damn good there!

ladybugs

For sisters whose mom calls them ladybugs.

broken heart - Zach Peltonen

Didn’t get the story behind why he wanted a broken heart, especially when he came in with his girlfriend, but this is his first tattoo.

Bonnie's lighthouse

The 7th tattoo I’ve given my friend Bonnie. She’s got a nautical theme going on both of her thighs. Looking forward to seeing this once it has healed.

Chandler Davis

Rib cages are a pain in the ass to tattoo, just FYI, but this turned out pretty well, considering.

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Weekly Tattoo Wrap-up #14

11 Tuesday Sep 2018

Posted by emilypageart in art, tattooing, Uncategorized

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cary tattoo, crow tattoo, Emily Page, Emily Page tattoo, flower tattoo, music tattoo, nautical tattoo, raleigh tattoo, Ratatat Tats, rose tattoo, star magnolia, tattoo, tattoo artist, xray flower tattoo

I’m late with this. I know. But I had reasons. Important reasons. All the reasons. One of which is hurricane preparedness. Because Aunt Flo – I mean, Hurricane Flo, is on her way and Raleigh has lost its damn mind. The store shelves were bare by yesterday afternoon. I think our house and tattoo studio are okay flood-wise, though I’m a little worried about trees coming down on the house. And I’ve lived through power outtages before, so I’ll make do,and reassure the cats that the world is not ending. But the haunt? The haunt will flood. Not a damn thing we can do about that except figure out how to charge the mosquitos for their new standing-water theme park.

But let’s talk about happier things, like tattoos. Here are a couple fun ones from last week:

Nautical half sleeve - Jenna Guerra

My favorite of the week. This customer had a rough relationship with someone in her family and decided to turn it into something positive by commemorating him with her favorite things about him. 

Xray Star Magnolia - Hannah Natour

An X-ray of a star magnolia.

Crows and moon

Don’t know why, but this one just struck my fancy.

treble clef anklet

This customer wanted an abstract treble clef/heart anklet so I came up with this.

That’s really it. Expect there to not be a tattoo wrap-up next week since we’re going to be closed several days this week for the impending weather doom. But I’ve been doing a little painting, so hopefully I’ll get my ass in gear and post my latest paintings instead. Hopefully. Don’t count on it. I’m lazy like that.

 

 

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Weekly Tattoo Wrap-up #13

03 Monday Sep 2018

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abrams tank tattoo, anchor tattoo, angel wings tattoo, anime tattoo, cary tattoo, compass tattoo, Emily Page, Emily Page tattoo, flower tattoo, infinity tattoo, raleigh tattoo, Ratatat Tats, realism tattoo, realistic tattooing, rose tattoo, train tattoo, turtle tattoo

Lucky #13, y’all. It’s still been pretty slow at the tattoo studio, but things have picked up at least a little bit. Most of the tattoos I did the last couple weeks weren’t all that interesting to anyone other than the people getting them, but here are some highlights. My favorite of the week was my last one of the week. I really wanted some practice at realism tattooing, so I posted an image on Facebook and asked my friends if anyone would let me play on them, you know, with ink…permanently. And crazy people that my friends are, I had someone say yes. So here’s what she got:

Realist rose - Taylor Honeycutt_compressed

abrams tank sprocket - Jenna Guerra_compressed

This customer is married to a tanker in the military

anchor with birds - Jenna Guerra_compressed

No story behind this one that I know of, but it looks pretty cool, so I’m posting it.

feather and infinity name - Juana

Hailey is the customer’s daughter.

Kensey - hats and letters_compressed

This one is in honor of the customer’s favorite anime show.

Ollie Upperman - turtle and flower

I wish I had a better pic of this one so you could see all the delicate stippling in the skin and the flower, but it’s still cute.

puerto rican rose

For her heritage.

wings and cross

Didn’t get the store behind this one. Sorry.

Train & compass - Drew Easley_compressed

My second favorite of the week. My instructions were to design a train coming out of a compass like a tunnel. Since my dad was such a train buff, I really enjoyed doing this one.

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Weekly Tattoo Wrap-up #10

30 Monday Jul 2018

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cary tattoo, compass tattoo, craving carbs, cupcake tattoo, mandala tattoo, marvin the robot, mechanical shark, owl tattoo, pet portraits, popeye arms, raleigh tattoo, Ratatat Tats, tattoo, tattoo artist, tattooing, video game tattoo

We’re at #10 you guys!! I have now been tattooing for about 5 months. But I haven’t felt like a real tattoo artist until this past weekend when I got a massage and the massage therapist laughed and told me I had “really well-developed forearms.” Woot woot! I’m gonna look like Popeye, y’all. And I’m gonna be damn proud of it. It was another pretty slow week at the tattoo studio. July in this area sucks for businesses (it was the same way at my last business, so I’m not panicking…yet). But I did have some fun tattoos to share, so here you go:

Aaron Walker - Cartman the dog

Meet Cartman. He is a dog. I looooooooove doing pet portraits!! Squeee!

arm band mandala -y

Just a pretty little mandal-y arm band.

compass

A compass. Obviously.

mechanical shark - Joe Bobbitt_compressed

I love this one. It’s from a video game, apparently. I know jack about that stuff, but I had a blast doing this.

owl - Adam Allegrini

For a customer who digs owls, and the a pancreatic cancer/Alzheimer’s ribbon for loved ones.

Brian Kirkpatrick - marvin robot with planet balloons

Marvin the robot, because 42. Excited to see this one once it has healed and the white no longer looks pink.

cupcake

Just in case you weren’t already craving carbs…

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That Tattoo Girl

26 Thursday Jul 2018

Posted by emilypageart in art, painting, tattooing, Uncategorized

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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:

Introspection_compressed

Introspection 36″ x 36″ oil on canvas

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

That Tattoo Girl_compressed

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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Weekly Tattoo Wrap-up #9

23 Monday Jul 2018

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cary tattoo, daschund tattoo, Emily Page tattoo, friday the 13th, memorial tattoo, mother daughter tattoos, raleigh tattoo, Ratatat Tats, tattoo, tattoo artist, weiner tattoo

You may or may not have noticed that I didn’t do a weekly tattoo wrap-up last week or the week before that. This is not because I don’t love you. It’s because the last couple weeks sucked all the sucky ways a suckfest can suck, and we had almost no business and the tattoos I did have were mostly uninspiring and I didn’t bother to take pics. But I’ll roll the couple fun ones I did into this week’s wrap-up instead, starting with:

daschund - Amanda Weber_compressed

My favorite from the last two weeks is this daschund…mostly because I got to say I tattooed a weiner.

Bear with Wings - Nicole Slater_compressed

A memorial tattoo for 3 different people, one of whom used to make these stuffed bears.

Cachea lily_compressed

A tattoo for this customer’s kids.

Thomasine Squire - hardest goodbye

Another memorial tattoo…obviously. This one choked me up just a little bit.

Thomasine Squire - infinity

Same customer as the last one. Didn’t get the specifics on why she wanted this one because I was too busy sniffling and wiping my eyes from the first one.

chess piece with halo - Amanda Cooper_compressed

Another memorial tattoo. She had the king piece on her left shoulder for her dad, and added this queen for her mom.

Mother daughter - Lisa Craycraft

Another sweet memorial tattoo.

Allison Shackleford

For a badass biker babe who wanted somethin’ kinda girly.

golfer

For a unicycler. Just kidding. Golfer. Obvi.

mother daughter plants

Mother and daughter came in to get tattoos together while they were on vacation. 

ouija planchette, runes, moon

For 3 friends who wanted to commemorate their reunion.

And some fun ones for Friday the 13th:

Fri 13 - walk-in
Fri 13 - Kinsley Cox
Fri 13 - Chessa

 

Fri 13 - Chessa
Fri 13 - Kinsley Cox
Fri 13 - walk-in

 

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Weekly Tattoo Wrap-up #8

01 Sunday Jul 2018

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cat and moon tattoo, flower tattoo, kilimanjaro tattoo, map tattoo, raleigh tattoo, Ratatat Tats, stanley cup tattoo, tattoo, tattoo artist, tattooing, washington capitals tattoo, world tattoo

I’ve done eyebrows, eyebrows, and more eyebrows this week. And for a break, I did eyeliner. But interestingly, I also got to essentially do microblading on a woman’s face lift scars. I tattooed hairs over the scar to fill in where there isn’t any hair. Not sure how it’ll hold up over time, so we’ll have to see, but it looked damn good when we were done. I also got to tattoo a group of guys as the end of their bachelor party weekend, but I didn’t take pics. As for other tattooing, these are the most interesting ones I did this week:

stanley cup - Jon Lensch_compressed

For a Washington Capitals fan who finally realized his dream of winning the Stanley Cup.

bicyclist - Brian Kirkpatrick_compressed

For an avid cyclist (actually the same guy that I did the Kilimanjaro tattoo for).

cat and moon_compressed

I don’t know why, but I find this one charming.

flower

Just a pretty little flower.

Kilimanjaro - Brian Kirkpatrick_compressed

For a guy that climbed Kilimanjaro and has travelled the world.

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