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Janet
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Speculative realist limnrix, oil painting generator. Parent, gestational carrier, leftist, queer. NYC.
Lunoids: kickstarter.com/projects/limnrix/lunoids
Support: Patreon.com/limnrix
Shop: Bruesselbach.square.site
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D1X, #Lunoid 11, oil on canvas, 24x48in.
A robot representative of the entire cycle, an artist, a reprogrammable free agent
Late Pledges close tomorrow and then surveys are going out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lim...
A slim bronze humaniform robot with turquoise joints standing in an S-shaped crouch, before a color wheel, white semicircle and collection of eyeballs, sparks, and weblike light lines.
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Qp your art with a sunset!
Chicxulub, Paleofacture 25, oil on canvas 16x16in. Sunset from queens august 14 2024, oil on canvas 9x12in
November 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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*my kid voice* sssssliiime
genderfluid-druid: hurr hurr I'm a human body hurr hurr I'm gonna solve all my problems using mucus genderfluid-druid: "i require more fluids" well what did you do with the fluids I already gave you. hmm? did you make more mucus with them? you made more mucus with them.
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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The art vs the artist's hand
H4M5A, lunoid 6, 2025, oil on canvas, 20x30in White person's small but muscular right hand, palm side facing
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Chocolate cake covered in sprinkles with "CAKE THAT MAKES YOU GAY" written in icing
November 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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For Halloween my kid was a spider and spouse was a cyberpunk OC so I bridged them as The Web.
Full body mirror selfie in black and white Dustrial leggings, LED graphic glasses and white spiderweb shawl
November 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Happy Halloween! Here's some Beloved Monsters that get labeled on here. Portraits of queer friends transformed into mythical creatures. bruesselbach.com/belovedmonsters
Janet Bruesselbach, Vampire (Marina), Beloved Monster, 2016, oil on canvas, 23x46in. Janet Bruesselbach, Succubus, Beloved Monster, 2021, oil on canvas, 23x42in. Janet Bruesselbach, Manananggal, Beloved Monster, 2021, oil on canvas, 24x42in diptych. Janet Bruesselbach, Dullahan (Abi), Beloved Monster, 2019, oil on canvas, 24x36in.
October 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Happy Halloween! Some spooky sfw selections from my series Beloved Monsters, portraits of queer friends transformed into mythical creatures. 🧟‍♀️ 👻 🐺 😈
Catalogs: bruesselbach.square.site/product/beloved-monsters-catalog/87
Janet Bruesselbach, Zombie (Artemis), Beloved Monster, 2022, oil on canvas, 24x32in Janet Bruesselbach, Werewolf (Zyaire), Beloved Monster, 2022, oil on canvas, 24x30in Janet Bruesselbach, Jersey Devil (Virgil), Beloved Monster, 2022, oil on canvas, 24x30in Janet Bruesselbach, Ghost (Jai), Beloved Monster, 2023, oil on canvas, 20x30in
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Make a plan to go to early voting tomorrow, vote for Zohran (on the WFP line), and get your Halloween Voter sticker!
A mini sjeleton decoration hanging on a green door, holding a tiny pumpkin with mukticolored googly eyes
October 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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I'm not an indulgent parent, I swear. But when a 3 year old expresses very specific and accomplishable desires, one whittles the pumpkin rind as one must.
Small jack-o-lantern lit with red light carved with a very rough approximation of Zack, a villain from the PBS Kids show Wild Kratts
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Theoretically my number is 0, but allergies and current diet restrictions make it 5
(My kid's number is 34)
Picky eater test
October 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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The most convenient of the group shows is Off The Wall, an affordable holiday gifting oriented fine art show at CultureLab LIC. Analog Imagination painting "Biblically Accurate Angel Trying on Glasses" is in it. The company is good and the sales are direct.
LIC-A, BrickHouse, CultureLab LIC present Off The Wall Affordable Holiday Fine Art Fair. Opening Reception: Thursday, November 6, 2025, 6-9pm, with live music by the Lucas McCrosson Trio. On View: Nov 6 - Dec 14. 5-25 46th Ave LIC NY 11101. Gallery Hours: Thurs & Fri 5-9pm, Sat & Sun, 2-9pm / culturelablic.org licartists.org / artwork by Thomas Watkiss: bird perched on autumn branches 16x16in oil on hemp painting of whirling wheels of rainbow eyes and 8 wings in a color wheel, hovering in front of a counter with a circular mirror and rack of eyeglasses and also holding some glasses.
October 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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#Lunoid 10, October 2025, oil on canvas, 36x36in.
#RobotArt #firefighter #PyrroleOrange #october #android
Pledge to get a calendar of the painting cycle in December, if you haven't already! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lim...
An angular orange humanoid robot with blue and green interior wiring poses in a heroic kneel, one fist on its forehead and one on its hip, in a flaming landscape.
October 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Some of the show I was in last month, including 3 Beloved Monsters, has moved to another nearby venue, IFM, 109 North 4th St, Easton PA. Opening this Friday, and mine will stay up until I can make a Pennsylvania excursion.
Flyer: Images of Angel (by me) and Satyr (by Gaia Abraxas) AUTHENTICITY An Exhibition in Celebration of Pride and Art Opening Reception Friday October 17, 7:30-10pm International Fusionism Museum 109 North 4th Street Easton PA 18042 gallery hours: Sat & Sun 12-3 Omphala Foundation (too many artist names to transcribe right now I'm tired)
October 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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May I request being added to this starter pack? I paint oil portraits from live models, sometimes classical, sometimes full body transformative/conceptual, and take commissions. Bruesselbach.com
Self portrait under fascism, 2025, oil on canvas, 19x32in Maro, 3, 2025, oil on canvas, 18x24in Goblin (Ennis), Beloved Monster, 2023, oil on canvas, 18x24in Cassie, 2017, oil on canvas, 16x20in.
October 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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"The Veil Between Worlds" seasonal sketch night at Materials for the Arts LIC 9/30/25, hauntingly hosted by AE Kieran. Model dancers Andrea Murillo and Jack Blackmon styled by Machine Dazzle. Grabbed dry media, kind of regretted it.
1 minute sketches of Jack in pencil on paper. 9/30/25 Veil Between Worlds Sketch Night @MFTA Sketch in pastel on orange construction paper of Andrea reclining on a couch with a white wig decorated with flower, mushrooms, blackbird, wearing black lace veil, holding dry yellow bouquet, giant spider on leg. pastel on brown construction paper sketch of Andrea and Jack leaning draped in fabric and wearing feathered headpieces. silouetted using white negative space. pastel on pink construction paper drawing of seated Andrea in tubular pink and orange toga with green patterned tubes, flowers over torso, gold pumpkin on head
October 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Good morning from Izzy and her 3 teeth
Portrait of a calico cat on a day bed with a tongue blep
September 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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4AT, #Lunoid 9, September 2025, oil on canvas, 20x30in.
(reposting because I changed to a zippier visual pun with the title)
#lunoids #android #RobotArt #robot #oilpainting #humanartist #traditionalart #sfart #waitress #diner
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A full-figured golden humanoid waitress robot, in a white and red striped diner-like environment, balances on one foot with one hand twisted behind it, in a dance-like motion, presenting a slice of cheesecake.
September 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Sketches of Arley, hooper extraordinaire, from yesterday's Queens Drink & Draw at Everyone Comics in LIC. Procreate for iPad on Wolf-Rayet124, rollerball, watercolor, conte pencil #figuredrawing #humanart
Loose digital sketch of a lanky brown skinned person with curly black hair, wearing a cropped white shirt and pink overall shorts over white floral tights with a pink cowboy hat, seated and resting their chin on their hands, in the colors of and overlaying a pink, blue and white JWST NIRCAM image of Wolf-Rayet 124 Pen on paper sketch of Arley, a slim androgynous Black person wearing a cropped dress shirt, rosette leggings, cowboy hat and sneakers, half reclining on their side and looking sideways Watercolor and pencil sketch of Arley seated with legs to the side and leaning on one hand, in pink, white, black and brown 5 minute conte pencil sketch of Arley, a slim, tall person wearing cropped dress shirt and overall shorts, in a dynamic standing pose holding their hat in one hand and two hula hoops in the other.
September 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Cobgratulations Michael, long time admirer here!
I'm an oil painter working in series of transformative portraits and sci-fi concepts with an eye for color and invention.
51T4, Lunoid 7, 2025, oil on canvas, 32x42in. Green forestry android with magenta touches, planting a tree. Chicxulub, Paleofacture 25, 2024, oil on canvas, 16x16in. Four dinosaurs in space suits witness a queztalcoatlus occluding the sunset seen from earth's orbit, as a dozen missiles arc up to intercept the asteroid. The colors are vivid blue and orange with rainbow accents. Selkie (Rain), Beloved Monster, 2021, oil on canvas, 24x30in. A young Black person pulls on their harbor sealskin on Coney Beach "See no evil, hear no evil —ah, but eating evil, from that we cannot abstain", Analog Imagination, 2024, oil on canvas, 20x10in. 3 pale incubi in a row facing you. The firat covers his eyes, the second his ears, and looks at the third, which is gleefully eating glowing green slime.
September 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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The icon, the artist, the art
Eye logo in solid fills with yellow skin, indigo crescent iris, asterisk highlight Face of a middle aged white woman from selfie camera with short dark hair, septum ring, finger on mouth. 51M, Lunoid 8, August 2025, oil on canvas, 12x36in. An androgenous yellow soldier robot at attention on a dazzle pattern with glashes and eyes.
September 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Artists, show an old piece you love!
I'm going for maximum oldness here, your challenge is to beat 2001.
Painting of a reclining female nude, foreshortened with a spine twist, in charcoal and white and magenta paint on cardboard
September 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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6 days in LA has me influencer posting free feet and unsponsored Cascara Fizz
White woman's foot on curb in black birkenstock with marigold pedi next to bluebottle coffee cup and mulch
September 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Huge synth listener, would love to hear more about the project! Illustration work bruesselbach.com/portfolios/illustration recent robot paintings, very licensable bruesselbach.com/projects/lunoids ty4o
H4M5A, 2025, oil on canvas, 30x20in Green android in strawberry field reclining and pondering a fruit
August 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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2nd 3rd of #Lunoids all lined up pretty. Oil paintings of stylized robots from Study of Pose photos, themed to color, time, occupation, set to become a 2026 calendar. Late pledge and read lots more about it at kickstarter.com/projects/limnrix/lunoids #RobotArt #SFArt #spectrum
4,5,6,7
5H1, May 2025, oil on canvas, 3x3ft. A teal medbot perched on a kind of pyramid, concentrating on a syringe, surrounded by red stars of life and green snakes. H4M5A June 2025, oil on canvas, 30x20in. An emerald green android with silver and red accents half reclines in rows of strawberry plants, thoughtfully touching a single strawberry. 51TA (Lunoid 7), July 2025, oil on canvas, 32x42in. Painting of a large, muscular green android in a forest, holding a big shovel and pressing down on it with one heel. It has magenta decorations on its unclothed body and between its legs is the sapling it is planting. 51M, Lunoid 8, August 2025, oil on canvas, 12x36in. A golden soldier robot with purple wires and blue edges stands at attention and salutes amidst a dazzle pattern including bricks, lights and eyes.
August 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM