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Lions, and Elephants, and Dancers, Oh My!

15 Tuesday May 2018

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I’ve been playing around with ideas for watercolor style tattoos for a couple weeks on my downtime at the studio. Since some of them are really fun, I figured I’d go ahead and share them here. If anyone wants me to tattoo one of them on you, holla. The first two are different concepts for the same dancer. The lion and elephant aren’t related, but I’ve seen a lot of people getting generic tattoos of lions and elephants, so I wanted to play with making them really unique.

Dancer black and white tattoo idea_compresseddancer-color-watercolor_compressed.jpgelephant-in-headdress_compressed.jpgRoaring Lion_compressed

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Watercolor Tattoos

20 Friday Apr 2018

Posted by emilypageart in art, painting, tattooing, Uncategorized

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daisy painting, daisy tattoo, daisy watercolor, daisy watercolor tattoo, Emily Page Art, Emily Page tattoo, raleigh tattoo, Ratatat Tats, watercolor and ink painting, watercolor tattoo

I am LOVING these splotchy watercolor tattoos, y’all. They’re just so cheerful! And I can see my own progress from the first couple I did to the one I did today. In the interest of the tattoos holding up over time, I’ve made sure to include strong blackĀ  images that won’t fade as much as the colors. These days, though, tattoo inks have gotten pretty good and they’re lasting a lot longer, so it may not be as much of a concern as it used to be.

Here are the first couple that I did:

no day but todayconstellation watercolor

But I wanted to play with this style some more, so I decided to actually do some watercolor paintings. There’s a fabulous photographer whose work I love named Terry Davis (seriously, go check out her work), and she posted a photo of a daisy, and I loved the shape:

terry davis sunflower

I mean, isn’t this stunning?! You can get prints of it on Fine Art America.

So I used her photograph as inspiration for a watercolor daisy:

 

terrys-daisy-watercolor.jpg

I have been forbidden by my tattoo mentor and by my husband from giving away any more tattoos, so I decided to auction this one off. I posted it on my Facebook page and let my friends bid on getting this tattooed on them. The friend that won requested some color changes and asked that we make the colors more splashy and less drippy. So I did a little tweaking and here’s what she got:

Bonnie's daisy

It’s such a happy tattoo! If anyone is interested in doing the original watercolor I’d auctioned off, let me know! It’s about a 2-hour tattoo.

And just for funsies, I took a picture of the tattoo before I added color, and I love it, too, as a stand-alone tattoo, so thought I’d share it with you.

 

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Oh, Deer

29 Wednesday Nov 2017

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animal watercolor painting, antler art, antler painting, deer antler painting, deer art, deer painting, Emily Page, Emily Page artist, painting of antlers, painting of deer, Raleigh artist, watercolor and ink painting, watercolor painting, watercolor painting of antlers, watercolor painting of deer, watercolor tattoo deer

No idea what made me think to do a deer painting. It’s not normally on my radar, but for some reason, I just really wanted that to be my next painting. I’ve had almost no art time lately (the acrylic painting videos I posted recently were actually created a couple years ago and I just never got around to posting them) because I’ve been busy painting walls for the tattoo studio. I can’t really complain because I’m finally getting to do something to move forward on that adventure, but painting walls one solid color doesn’t exactly stir the imagination. So I decided to take a couple hours between running errands to do another watercolor video for you. Here you go:

You can find prints and other swag of the inkless watercolor here and here, and of the inked watercolor here and here.

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Watercolor Butterfly

24 Tuesday Oct 2017

Posted by emilypageart in art, blog, painting, Uncategorized

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art, artist, butterfly, Emily Page Art, india ink, paint, painter, painting, painting video, Raleigh art, Raleigh artist, watercolor, watercolor and ink painting, watercolor painting

People keep telling me I need to do videos of myself making art. The problem with that is that realist paintings take a looooooong time, and it’s tiny little paintstrokes and it’s pretty boring to watch. So I’ve decided to do a few quick and dirty watercoler with India ink paintings. I don’t have a ton of experience with watercolors, and I haven’t used pen and ink since college, so for now I’m having fun experimenting and letting you watch. I did two paintings today, but my phone is an asshole and stopped recording half way through the second one. And now it’s getting dark and my studio has shitty lighting, so I can’t try again. But at least I got one done and uploaded.

I should also note that I don’t have any fancy set up for getting the camera focused on my painting, and I don’t have the money to buy a fancy set up. So I did a little artist hack and jerry-rigged a harness with some twine and hooks in my ceiling. Super hightech over here, people.

camera harness

And now, for your view pleasure, here’s a little watercolor and India ink painting of a butterfly.

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