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essie somma
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painter + former flight risk
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essie somma @essiesomma.bsky.social · Jun 12
Save a Brush, Build a Home, 14x18”, oil on canvas, 2025

#oilpainting #portraitpainting #surrealart #womenartists #bluejay #birdart
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essie somma @essiesomma.bsky.social · Jun 9
Tension (Maybe It’s Wanderlust, Maybe It’s Neo-colonialism), oil on wood, 14x18”, 2025

#oilpainting #wanderlust #contemporarypainting #collageart #realism #surrealart #womenartists
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essie somma @essiesomma.bsky.social · Mar 31
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essie somma @essiesomma.bsky.social · Mar 31
black, white, and red all over, oil on wood, 16x16”, 2025

#oilpainting #selfportrait #realism #salmonhats #orcas #red
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essie somma @essiesomma.bsky.social · Mar 19
The Secret Pathos of Nature’s Loveliness, oil on wood, 18x 24”, 2025
#bigbrother #oilpainting #surrealart
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essie somma @essiesomma.bsky.social · Feb 25
Southern Live Oak Hammock, oil on exposed cradled wood, 24x36”, 2025
#figurativepainting #surrealart #contemporaryoilpainting #southernartists
two women hold each other, their bodies missing from the forms of their clothes. Surrounded by blue and green Southern Live Oak branches and an osprey perched atop one of the figures. (detail) two women hold each other, their bodies missing from the forms of their clothes. Surrounded by blue and green Southern Live Oak branches and an osprey perched atop one of the figures. this image is a detail shot taken of the two figures and osprey from the shoulders up
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essie somma @essiesomma.bsky.social · Feb 18
Sympathy + Relationships, colored pencil, paper, accordion-style book, 2024
#bookbinding #bookarts #coloredpencil
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essie somma @essiesomma.bsky.social · Feb 4
dwarf palmetto (study), oil on wood, 8x10”, 2025

#oilpainting #realisticpainting
painted palm fronds of the dwarf palmetto layer on top of each other with powder blue wallpaper behind them.
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essie somma @essiesomma.bsky.social · Jan 30
grief is a clown, oil on wood, 8x10”, 2025

an appropriate first painting of the year
painting of a woman crying with makeup streaming down her face and a big smile. her skin is showered in orange and gold light while the shadows and makeup are rendered blue.
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essie somma @essiesomma.bsky.social · Jan 28
event horizon, oil on paper, 15.5x17.5”, 2024
a magenta and orange female fragmented figure dances through a deserted landscape in a yellow corduroy vest with a water monitor layer across her back
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