Tabloid Slut

So still trying to figure out exactly when and how I want to continue updating this website is slowly working. As in the previous blog I have decided to post on Mondays and Thursdays. These will also be the days that Special editions will be released. As for everything else it is as good as can be. I can’t say getting older is ever easy though. This week I was notified that another friend has passed and I’ve realized that it is what it is. Out of my control. It’s Life. The more you know. The more you lose. I guess it will be good to celebrate their life and just say, “Fuck It. Cheers.” I never have thought so much about not thinking until this year. At one point and time I think I’d probably decide to give myself a liquid lobotomy yet that is another thing I’ve refrained from doing. It sees to always be my problem with the world. Anytime something is in fashion or mainstream I just want to do the opposite. People are out of work and drinking. Well I want to be working and not drinking. I have always been against the grain. Though this time around I’m coming in wiser with sanded edges to this old pice of oak. So as I’ve been thinking about not thinking. Which I know is an oxymoron within itself. I’ve spent awhile putting myself on autopilot. At least that is what I’m trying to do. Explore within my studio and create. It is my job. It’s the only place I can happy accidents and total control of at least the world I create. It’s all anyone truly wants anyway. A place to call their own. It’s an act to be emperor or God. Control. That’s all we want out of life.

“Never except yesterday as your best even if today is your worst.” - Jeffery

Animation and Accomplishment.Animation & Accomplishment

Thurs.Dec.10.2020

So this week in revue and it’s only Thursday. I have been back to work on a commission for a client as well as the animation project I’m doing with my good friend Kevin Besignano. I have been back to occupying my mind with that talent of living inside my mind. It’s nice to be able to be in different worlds.

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The painting is 30”x40” of a Sea Horse Unicorn to match one I painted last year for them. It’s been nice to get back into some oils. I really can’t help but love being able to switch back and fourth in between different mediums. This one is coming along just perfectly. I look forward to sharing it once I’m finished.

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As for the animation Kevin and I are working on. It was an idea we had over this year when we managed to make it out to the North Hollywood Mexican Restaurant Casa Vega’s. He brought it up to my attention that David Lynch had been doing these little animations and thought it would be rad to do something like it. Of course without skipping a beat I said, “Yes.” Since I could remember cartoons are all the basis of my thoughts, influences and probably even bad jokes. However, being this was going to be our first project in this realm I worked out everything in my head as well as a story line to follow. Knowing of Kevin’s talents with music and computer wizardry him and I should at least be proud to present it to those children we have in our life like his own Bella. Not too mention it is a total passion project in which I feel him and I chase more than the one’s that might get us somewhere. Regardless, I’m very excited about it. I hope you all will enjoy it too. I have started prepping 10 new panels for a series called the “Travelers”. It has been an idea i have been sketching for as well as planning for the last few years and feel it’s relevant to me more now so than ever. It probably is the combining of all the previous works of art that has led me to this series however it’s this past year that I think gives it the meaning I was searching for all along. It ties in childhood ideas with adult perspective. Along the way I think it just represents life how I see up to now. I also know It seems insane to work the way I do at the moment however I believe in sharing more not only for me but for those I love. I also believe that what I see now is a little bigger than what I was doing before. Life gives us a new perspective from time to time and if we truly are lucky we can witness to adjust. So no list is too long to accomplish. As for everything in life it is only a matter of time and energy put into something in order to receive the benefit of accomplishment. Even if it’s only for your own enjoyment. It is that selfishness that I’m going to learn to love and pursue. As for those it seems I have it all even if I feel I may have lost it all. I am aware of all my projects that exist. All my creations are seeing reality and as life of 2020 comes to an end by the days I see life becoming even more surreal in the near future of 2021. Some of it is my dreams and some of it is just my nightmares. Overall though is it not true… Life’s but a dream. So on that note back to creating this world to share to you all. Stay tuned.

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Chase your Dreams and Nightmares.

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They are all relevant to someone.

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The world is surreal if you open your eyes.

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Create the world you don’t want to destroy.

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Sincerely may you have this day to enjoy.

Me

aka

Your Friend Jeffery

For commissions and inquires please email - victoria@JefferyPage.com

Regardless if my ego does or does not is really not my concern. Really the only main focus is to now complete the imaginary icons for my sanity. I guess that is why that fall may have knocked some sense into me. We will all fall. We all will feel the failures of life from time to time. It is the idea and the practice of realizing you will always be picking yourself up mentally and physically that makes us all the same fallen idol, icon and idea that I’d say makes us well “US”.

You either will get it or you won’t. Get it or don’t. Thoughts and writing from yours truly.

Beginning of a new work week. Working on some passion projects with a few friends and also some of my own. Let’s not forget about the normal work load of drawing tattoo flash and normal artwork series. Sometimes I get why I feel I get nothing done. It’s actually quite the opposite though. It’s finding balance between what I can do and what I can not within a day is the only obstacle. Usually it is like School. I have a routine of treating my art like High School. I try to have a schedule of classes set up by deadlines. Other than the deadlines really most of it seems to be classes I love. Some classes are skipped while others I might stay in. However, after a course of a lifetime I’m sure that all of them will get equal amounts of attention. Mostly it is just understanding patience and time. Even the best teachers are still learning. I guess that is why I look forward to always learning as well. It’s not like I’m always the best student either. Good news I am able to realize it. This flaw has allowed me to learn how to learn my why. I guess that’s why it’s nice when I see the work I put in slowly developing into something bigger. It’s an amazing concept to think of it as a seed to a tree. Then realize it might even be a sequoia or a redwood. Overall, it’s having faith in yourself to let life be and maintain schedules even if they are only one’s that we create for ourselves. Either way I feel I’m optimistic in this continuous study and pursuit of creation. Wether it is in any medium I am happy to be schooled and allowed to fail or succeed. It is this understanding of being human that allows me to pretend to be a god in my world. The whole idea is to create something that has already existed just through my own perspective and interpretation. So with that in mind the creations may be juvenile or prolific. Either way they are mine. That is why I love it is Monday or any day for that matter. It’s just another day of creating and living in a world of imagination. It is my escapism to the land of make believe that allows me to work on these endeavors that I hope will at least if only one thing inspire one person it is ok to dream to be big. I do daily and it seems to be one of my favorite things in life.

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Never forget to Dream.

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Sincerely Me,

aka Your Friend

Jeffery Page

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If it was any easier to win we’d all probably want to lose.

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Jeffery Page