The Courtney Love Fungus

Crazy Courtney Love is one of my favorite celebrity tabloid subjects to paint. This time around, I noticed there was something fungus-like about her. I'll often hike in the woods after the rain and am amazed at the variety of colorful, wonderland-like fungus sprouting up among the rotting logs and lush moss. They are brightly colored, alien-like, dangerous and scary - just like Courtney. Her neck appears a thick, milky white stalk. A large scarlet mass of pillowy, shiny growth sprouts menacingly off her face. Her hair, a tangled mess of mildewed, ghostly filaments blowing in the howling wind. I find fungus to be quite beautiful in its own way, but like Courtney, is best observed from a distance. Medium: graphite on paper, digital color, done for Caricaturama Showdown 3000.

Comments

[Bella]

Brilliant! With that image now stuck in my head, I'll be laughing all evening. It's dead on!

[Height growth]

How fun and how cute! Such a great artist! Is there only one artist for all these masterpieces in the site?

[Venus]

Wow. There's no mistaking who it is, is there. Spot on.

[Steve]

Damn, you just keep getting better

[romano]

Dilettante watch the scene of bustle, adept guard the entrance, this figure is see art, is actually facial paralysis

[Andy]

i like your chachater design

[14]

Thanks so much for your kind words. I'm grateful my favorite commenters over the years have now become my friends - I love you guys....

xox
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[Jenn F.]

Oh this is AMAZING!!! Damn, you just keep getting better. What a masterpiece.

[Andy]

I like the expression in describing

[14]

Hi Midevil,

Yes sometimes the timing of my posts combined with current events unsettles me. Synchronicity? Madness? When I heard about crazy crazy Court burning herself in a fire, I honestly hoped she was okay. I can't have my girl getting hurt. Poor dear, she's such a mess - but that is exactly the reason she appeals to me so much. Thanks for continuing your comments, it is much appreciated!

xoxo
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[midevil]

When I first saw your pic (today), I thought it might be about the fact that she burnt her hands trying to put out a fire in her home last week. Although it's fungus, it is eerie in that way! The glassy eye and bloated lips - you pay such attention to detail! Love it!

[sweet subversion]

14, this is the BEST, the absolute BEST portrait of Court you have ever done!!!! I love what you have done with her eyes.

I often wonder how a psychiatrist would formally diagnose this woman? I read she was bipolar. Have a friend who's bipolar, she's NOTHING like Court. I wonder if you could throw in severe narcissistic personality disorder too. Even in her most lucid moments this woman says the most inappropriate shit - like talking about the people she's fucked and how bad they are in bed, the size of her dead husband's dick, and her master plan to be a gold digger.

[Vern]

She is an oozey floozey!

SPOT ON! (get it?) ;)

[The Mave]

This is so good, it should be an art print!! You really nailed her loony behind!!! Even her fungi has antenna-like growths! And those lips,... and,.. that eye!

"Marvelous Work!"