While I was prepping for a drawing course that I'm teaching, I found this remarkable item in Gallery of the Absurd. For those of you who haven't had the pleasure, Gallery of the Absurd is the web domain of the mysterious artist "Fourteen". Fourteen takes pleasure in skewering celebrity culture with her illustration. Her general meanness is tempered by her deep love and curiosity for celebrity culture. Here's what she had to say about her Egon Schiele-esque rendering of Nicole Richie:
Austrian Expressionist painter Egon Schiele is best known for his haunting paintings of solitary figures. His models often looked bored, uncomfortable, somewhat hollow-eyed and tended to be bony thin. I think if he were around today, he would chose Nicole Richie as one of his subjects. Medium: Charcoal, pastel and acrylic on paper stained with chai tea.
It's good to know that even though Nicole Richie is something like four months pregnant, this portrait is still accurate.
