Painting for personal catharsis
Posting this here because I’ve spent hours working on it so far and there’s only like 3 people I can actually ever show this to in real life lol
So, long story short, the person depicted in this painting (gouache on cold press watercolor paper) is someone who’s been a bully and troublemaker in my local community, and gained a small following online for doing so. In addition to the actual harm she has caused in the community, she constantly posts endless shitty AI generated images of this fuck ass little caterpillar as her “mascot” or something? And her entire “brand” she projects to her followers is just centered around this piece of AI slop.
I’ve been so frustrated with her behavior, but I’m helpless to do anything about it. So as a means of personal catharsis to let out the negative feelings I have (but without directing it towards her! I don’t want to be mean to someone just because they’ve been mean to others) I’m working on this insane portrait of her slurping up her AI mascot.
This might be a legitimately insane coping method of dealing with negative emotions, but I feel like it’s both funny and harmless as long as I’m taking care to ensure she doesn’t ever see it (hence posting on a random subreddit, bc I don’t want to post it anywhere she may see it since it would probably upset her lol) It’s definitely the weirdest thing I’ve ever painted, but I think it’s turning out pretty well 🙂 90% done, plan to finish it today
(If through some freak coincidence you know who this is in the painting or who I am, please be cool and pretend you didn’t see this lol)