This morning, I was thinking about how lucky I was to know the most extraordinary people: writers and artists and porn stars and firebrand journalists and rockstars. And I thought that maybe I should draw them.
So I’m going to try, when not murdering myself on other things, I’m going to try to draw sixty six of them.
Here’s the first. Laurie Penny. UK Journalist and badass.
I'm Molly Crabapple, an artist and writer in New York. My art show, Shell Game, was covered by press including New Republic, Rolling Stone, Fast Company, Wired, and The American Reader. My work can be found in the permanent collections of the New York Historical Society, the Rubin Museum of Art, and the Groucho Club. I've published several books, including Discordia (with Laurie Penny), and the forthcoming Straw House. I write a monthly column for VICE, and my essays have appeared at CNN, The Paris Review and Jacobin.
you are so clever!your painting is great!
LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!
I simply adore this project, know several of these lovely people and have been truly enjoying this. Thank you for sharing all of it as you do.
*Hope one day to make the cut and become a subject of a work of art for an artist like you! Ha! In the meantime, it’s back out to the studio for me.
xox
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