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Jess Sweeney
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Seattle based visual artist 🎨 Oil painter 🖌️
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Three Callas, 12x16", oil on panel. Just finished.
#art #artist #oilpainting #stilllife #sunlight #seattleartist #seattle
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Three yellow calla lilies in a cobalt blue glass vase in the sunshine on a white background
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Postcards are done & headed to @brassworksgallery.bsky.social for the International Postcard Show opening Dec 13! All postcards are $100. Buy in-person or shop online. My little oil paintings are named 'Happy Hour Triptych'. Get 1, 2, or all 3! 🫒 #art #painting #olives #postcard #artgallery
An oil painting triptych of three 4x6 postcards. Each has a green stuffed olive. There's one toothpick connecting all 3 across all 3 postcards.
October 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Finished a new painting. 'Little Blue House', 16x20", oil on panel. A piece about home and moving.

#art #artist #painting #oilpainting #seattleartist
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October 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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'Stuffed', oil on panel, 16x20", me. I saw this jar at the grocery store and the colors and layout of the olives called to me.
#art #painting #stuffedolives #artist #oilpainting #stilllife #realism #seattle
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A large oil painting of a jar of chili stuffed green olives with a bright red lid. The jar is offset to the left with rays of afternoon sunlight passing through
September 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Lucky, 12x16", oil on panel, 2025.
I found the clover in a friend's yard and the glass is from SGHR. It rooted in water! 🍀
#artist #oilpainting #art #painting #fourleafclover #lucky #glass
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A four leaf clover sprouting roots in water in a colorful blue, orange, yellow, and brown whisky glass with a long colorful shadow
July 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Red Admiral, 5x7, oil on panel.
The inspiration came when I was visiting a dusty graveyard I had never been to before. This butterfly with a broken wing came out of no where and landed on my hand for a while.
#redadmiral #butterflypainting #oilpainting #art #painting
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A black and orange red admiral butterfly on a metal railing over a staircase. The tip of one wing is broken.
July 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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"Happy Hour" 🫒🫒🫒 5x7" mini oil painting on panel that I recently finished. Because I love olives.

#olives #art #painting #artist #oilpainting #happyhour #miniatureart #stilllife #realism
Three green pimento stuffed olives on a toothpick on a white plate. Still life realism oil painting
May 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Yellow Dahlia, a miniature oil painting on canvas I recently finished, inspired by the dahlia garden at Stanley Park in Vancouver BC.

#art #oilpainting #artist #dahlia #painting #miniaturepainting
A small square oil painting of a yellow dahlia with a bee on it. Dark green leafy background
May 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Just dropped off this painting to ‘The Power of Color’ show at Fogue Gallery in Seattle.

The exhibit dates are 4/5-5/25 2025. The gallery is open Thursday through Sunday, Noon-5:00pm.

#psgna #psgnwa #pnwart #pnwartists #seattleartists #pnwartist #artgallery #artist #foguegallery #artwalk #art
Puget Sound Group Northwest Artists promo for The Power of Color show at Fogue Gallery in Georgetown Seattle, showing my painting, Sunrise at Fushimi Inari
April 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Happy Spring everyone! Here's Spring Bud, oil on canvas, 6x6". It will be shown in the 50th Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival at Seattle Center next month.🌸
#art #artist #oilpainting #oilpainters #springtime #cherryblossom #realism #seattleart #Seattleartist
Square oil on canvas painting of a cherry blossom bloom in a small white and brown bud vase on a sunny windowsill with a blue sky background
March 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Sunrise at Fushimi Inari, oil on canvas, 15.5x19.5", 2025. This painting was referenced from part of a photo I took on the trail in 2019 in Kyoto.
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#fushimiinari #toriigates #oiloncanvas #seattleartist #oilpainting #art #artist #realism
Sunrise at Fushimi Inari in Kyoto Japan, in the tunnel of vermilion torii gates going up the stone steps
March 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Happy International Women's Day! I've got a painting in the 2025 Women in Art show at Las Laguna Art Gallery in CA to help celebrate 🦋 Here's a screenshot of their website-

#artgallery #art #artist #painting #mixedmedia #bluebutterfly #womensday #internationalwomensday #womeninart
Screenshot of my painting of Blue Butterfly on Orange flower at Las Laguna Art Gallery
March 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Maya of Vashon, oil on canvas. This piece was a memorial commission I did for a friend. 🙏
#dogportrait #art #artist #painting #oilpainting #blacklab #seattle #bluesky @bsky.art @fineartgallery.bsky.social
A portrait of Maya the black lab at the water with a blue sky background
February 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Who else loves avocados? 🥑
Avocado Halves, 9x12, oil on heavy paper.
#art #artist #avocado #oilpainting #myart #artwork
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Oil painting of an avocado cut in half on a round white plate in a dark space
February 13, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Here's the full piece. Apple Pie, oil on canvas, 11x14". 🍎
#oilpainting #painting #art #artist #apple #stilllife #realism @fineartgallery.bsky.social @bsky.art
Realistic Oil painting of an apple slicer with a sliced red apple in it and one piece set to the side
February 7, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Throw back to last October when my painting made it on the show postcards at the Schack 🍎
#artsky #artist #oilpainter #artgallery #coverartist #applepie
February 5, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Dragon Fruit Halves, oil on canvas, 11x14".
#painting #oilpainting #stilllife #artshare #artsky @bsky.art @fineartgallery.bsky.social
Oil painting of a pink dragon fruit sliced in half with the white pulp and black seeds revealed on a round white plate with a steel knife in the sunshine
January 31, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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My painting of 'Rear View Pear' was marked as nudity by Instagram and is in violation of their terms.

#censorship #censoredart #meta #painting #artshare #stilllife #artsky #artoftheday #pear #toosexy
Painting of a very curvy bosc pear I found at the grocery store sitting on the widow sill for a still life
January 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Sharing another favorite from last year- Dambo's Birdhouse, oil on canvas, 16x20", oil on canvas, painted with permission from sculptor Thomas Dambo. You can see these irl in Lincoln Park in west Seattle 🐥
#art #oilpainting #oilpainter #seattleartist #birdhouse
Cluster of colorful birdhouses on a post high in the cloudy but blue sky. Painted from a Thomas Dambo sculpture with his permission
January 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Thought I'd share a few of my favorites from last year while I work on new things for 2025...
Here's 'Love Lemons Too', oil on canvas, 8x10". The original Love Lemons, oil on board, 4x6" was sold at a gallery, hence the 'Too' :)
#art #seattleartist #oiloncanvas #oilpainting
Two bright yellow lemons my husband picked out at the grocery store for my still life, painted on canvas
January 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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This is my first post and the last oil painting I finished in December - a study of a Rose of Sharon that was growing in my mom's yard last summer 🌸
#roseofsharon #oilpainting #seattleartist
My Rose of Sharon oil painting on canvas
January 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM