Neptuna: The Destroyer of Worlds

Nebraskan artist who loves paint, tea, cats, and other whimsical things. Because she's precious like that.

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Things you won't regret, watching the whole thing. Source

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Tuesday Night Acrylic on raw canvas 2012 24x36

Batgirl likes taking some time to chill in the kitchen, drinking white wine from a coffee mug.

And Neptune likes chlling too, though without white wine since he's a cat.

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1960

Oil on canvas

24x24

2012

This is derived from the scene from psycho, after Norman Bates kills Marion Crane in the infamous shower scene. I loved the cinematography of the eye slowly zooming. It's an amazingly haunting scene. This is part of my previous series of self portraits from classic horrors/thrillers.

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1999 Oil on canvas 24x24 2012 

First one I did in the series of self portraits based off of cult horror films. This one is in the style of the Blair Witch Project. The pallet is derived from old comic book covers. One thing you'll notice about this series is that I'm always moist. Totally an accident.

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1968 Oil on canvas 48x48  2012 I started a series of paintings based off of stills from horror films where I insert myself into the image. This one is Rosemary's Baby. 

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Oil on canvas 16x20 2012

A commissioned piece that I did for my mom to give as a gift. One of her friend's daughters had been killed in a bus crash accident earlier this year, so she asked me to paint a photo she had seen of her at the funeral because my mom felt "It looked like a oil painting."

It's actually at this point one of the pieces I'm most proud of.

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Oil on canvas 8x12 2012

Over the summer, my fiance Ben and I went to spend a weekend up in Colorado with his grandparents for his mom's fiftieth birthday. One of those days, we went to this Old West tourist trap of a town and alpine slide. They had the old time photo dress up place, which I've always wanted to do, but have never been able to. We took the photo, I made a painting out it because I was bored one day and didn't feel like working on the 4 foot x 4 foot monstrosity that I had been working on.

Weirdly, it became one of my professor's favorite paintings and he would bring it up and how much he loved it at every crit. Which was silly.

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Beauty Queen Series 24x24 Oil on canvas 2012

This is my series of self portraits where I made myself into a beautiful princess. It's the array of ridiculous emotions associated with it.

Plus tiara. Need I say more? 

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Fem Art Friday Feature; Kehinde Wlley

Wiley is widely known for his reappropriation of classic art poses and paintings into contemporary portraits of black men. From Wiley’s website:

Wiley’s larger than life figures disturb and interrupt tropes of portrait painting, often blurring the boundaries between traditional and contemporary modes of representation and the critical portrayal of masculinity and physicality as it pertains to the view of black and brown young men. 

Read more here:

No Poser Here: Acclaimed Artist Kehinde Wiley Paints Black Masculinity Anew.

 Passing/Posing: Kehinde Wiley Paintings

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Oil on panel 4x4 2012

Once upon a time there was a court painter to a beautiful princess. She would paint marvelous and weird images for the princess who would squeal in delight upon seeing her image so wonderfully rendered. The court painter was always fascinated by the princess's obsession with a magical book she would keep called a "Tumblr." The court painter had tried before to support one, with images of her cats sleeping, but alas, it never took to the court painter's life. She would just sit in a dark corner of the castle scrolling through other people's Tumblrs. 

One day, the beautiful princess, upon seeing the most recent creation of the court painter, said "You should make one of your art!"

The court painter scoffed at the beautiful princess's suggestion. Why would anyone want to see that? Then, she decided to take the beautiful princess's advice, and thus, Neptuna: The Destroyer of Worlds was created.

Obviously