Olsen Twins: Shaggy Little Imps of Hell?

The Olsen Twins have been seen skulking around the streets of New York while wearing nothing but black tights, homeless blankets and expensive handbags. Their tangled hair hangs languid and their oversized bug-eye glasses shield them from the prying eyes of humanity. Medium: charcoal, pastel, ink on paper.

Comments

[suzanne]

This is SO true - what are they tring to prove?? They MUST be on meth

[kc]

Classic! Luv the boots

[Salmonella]

Wow, so which one is which? I still can't tell.

[F.T.]

Can't sleep. Olsens will eat me.

[jerkygirl]

You can't even tell them apart anymore. Sorry girls, the whole "homeless chic" thing doesn't work, especially when your outfit cost more than the average SUV. These two make Bai Ling look like Anna fricking Wintour.

[Tess]

Oh this is cruel, 14. 100% accurate, sadly, but oh so cruel.

You have the legs just right, I am always afraid that their little legs are going to snap like toothpicks under the weight of those gigantic handbags.

How can they have so much money and so little taste. Can you just imagine what their clothing line will look like?

gahhhhhhhhh. what is with these furloving

[Jenn F.]

Oh that picture is just way too funny. The hunched-over body, the mammoth shoes... and those sticks in between! I've seen better legs sticking out of a nest.

[Kristi]

I hate to be cruel, but I wish these two "girls" would fall off a bridge and let the weight of their store-bought esteem drag them to the abyss of the ocean bottom-feeders.. where there is no light, and they'll live happily ever after.. floating around in the darkness, attracted by the ocassional strange sparkly light, which turns out to be some huge angler fish that will gobble them up. The food chain is a lovely thing.

[Kai]

Little ghoulie Olsen twins...

Thanks for the funny, it came just in time, otherwise I might have been tempted to go on a three-day drinking binge and wind up in Wisconsin after being dumped last night. Or perhaps go around town wearing only a blanket. And sunglasses to avoid eye contact. Yeah. What's their excuse?

Meh,
Kai
(too depressed for my tagline)

[Cyclops Kitten Natividad]

I love this style of yours, cuz I know you were having fun doing it. Olsens have always looked like Troll Dolls; they're scary little things, aren't they? But I confess I do like the granny boots one of them wears all the time. The rest of the outfits, not so much. They seem to want to disappear but crave attention at the same time...they always just seem very sad to me.

[kiki]

I agree with Tess- 100% accurate. Well done.

[pun_inpendid]

Based on some of their recent getups and heirloom hairdos (I think is Ashley that has been wearing the oddly yellowed looking hair in a bun) and the racoon or whatever stole, vintage tatting that could be cool but somehow on them comes off as just tatty and holes in the tights, plus the turbo boosted orthopedic shoes - the "Old"sen twins. Sort of what I would call "Our snicker" rather than "Arsnic" and old lace. This also reminds me - 14's "wretch"dition of them - of Munch's "The Scream" with hair for some reason. This is a classic 14 and right on the money as always. And they do have an awful lot of it even if most of us would rather forget them in "A New York Minute".

[midevil]

Perfect!

[Steeforth]

Did someone tells these two to never smile? That it is more chic to look sad and destitute? These two young women look like the most unhappy people in the world. Very sad.

[andrea]

OOooh, that's beautiful...I love that involuted, self-protecting, leave-me-aloooone osteoporosis posture you accentuated
lovely work.

[Chansmom]

Oh my! Everytime I see them, I think of them as playing dress up. I don't get why they dress as silly as they do, but when you're worth millions, who is going to tell you that you look ridiculous? Certainly no one that works for them.

And those shoes too. I see them, and they annoy me to no end. I'm not sure why, but they bug the hell out of me! Argh! Money doesn't bring class or taste. These two are living proof.

[Demon Kitty]

I completely 100% agree with Tess, Kirsti, and Pun Intended. They do look like they rose up from hell and reside in Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream". How did these two annoying shits get so rich?!!! I know they were child stars, but I never heard of them until they turned 18!!! It's like they have suddenly emerged from the netherworld where the posessed Reagan from "the Exorcist" and that awful girl/thing from "The Ring" reside. When you are small, stick thin and resemble a monkey, you should not wear bed spreads from the Salavation army, handbags that are 4 times your body weight, and glasses that make you look like Seth Brundle's "The Fly". These two troll/ogre/monkey things look like they crawled out of a hole in somebody's basement. They need a good smack in the mouth and a coin for the ferryman.

[Mary]

Oh I LOVE this!!! Hee hee!!! I want to be them for Hallowe'en. There's enough in me to BE both of them. :)

[rose no thorns]

Hee!

[deanna]

Yes!! I can't help but notice that one of the two, ah the one with the handbag, seems to have little tiny fly-like wings behind her. These two remind me of those stick characters from that movie the night before halloween. I digress. This piece really has a creepy feel to it, much like the subjects. "Turbo orthopedic shoes" are so chic, where have you been pun-intended... like duh steeforth, destitution is in now. Its like so totally now and so hot. Sort of like kickin it wit your homeless homies but not really cause these girls get their homeless apparel from really expensive boutiques. Damn it you must admit these girls are brilliant. Who else could pull of this new trend? You really outdid yourself this time lady.

[gilmore]

Love it! Funny, haunting, accurate, and beautifully done.

[azuka]

Hahahahahahaha so funny! The look like a dead people... Great Job!

Saludos!

[mike]

Honestly, 14, I think this is one of your best, "artistically" speaking.

[Ellie]

ohhhh
so perfect!!
i really dont like their poor taste

[Caitlin]

I'm all for looking different and not dressing like a clone of every other clothes horse out there, but what is up with the bag lady/ heroin addict/ homeless runaway chic?

I can't be the only one who wants to see them get over their teen experimentation years and learn about how to dress originally whilst still flattering yourself.

[Ethan]

The chipmunks become Squirrels from Hell!!

[pun_inpendid]

My thanks to Demon Kitty for getting Munch's first name correct in post as I did not : ) 14 called them "those little Olsen buggers" and that really is the truth - literally and figuratively. This truly is one of my favorites too because it looks like it was a real kick in the pants for you to paint, 14. Thanks again for the "tween-queen" tee hees.

[fanny pack]

There is something special about this image that scares me. You know how it is when you see a possum in your trash and at first it frightens you because they are so odd looking. And then it frightens you that they aren't more frightened by you staring at them and shooing them away...

The Olsen twins have that same effect on me.

[licoricepirate]

bwaha!
you've captured them perfectly!!
xD

[pun_inpendid]

Re: Demon Kitty's "they need a good smack in the mouth and a coin for the ferryman" comment. At least they need not worry about being able to afford passage to the Underworld, though I'm not sure even Charon would except them, though many men do seem to think they are hot : ) - so they might still be forced to wander the banks of the Styx for 100 yrs rather than the streets of New York. Have enjoyed the comments on this one almost as much as the "poor"trait.

[Zooblogy]

Heavy shoes

[Leve]

I think this is an incredible work-but to those of you all too quick to comment and insult the twins (whom I do not defend in any way) look at 14's write-up on the work ... WE are the 'prying eyes of humanity' and have created monsters such as these..the twins have been watched by us since birth.. is that something YOU could ever imagine?..
just a thoughtful note from an art historian's perspective..

Best

[Noelegy]

Don't they make enough money to look a little happier?

[Vegi]

You forgot to include all the dead animals. They sure seem to be big fans of those.

God, if this wasn't so damn tragic, it could have been really funny.

[mellen]

RE:::You know how it is when you see a possum in your trash and at first it frightens you because they are so odd looking. And then it frightens you that they aren't more frightened by you staring at them and shooing them away...:::

***Spits wine on keyboard.*** lol.

RE:::Don't they make enough money to look a little happier?:::

Ya know. So true. That's what upsets me about ALL these chicks.

[Kai]

I can attest as someone who has experienced both poverty and wealth (rags to riches to rags to..... ) that money doesn't make you happier. Just makes life easier. Yes, you can make yourself temporarily happy but indulging in your desires, but you lose interest in new goodies pretty fast. People have higher expectations of the richer- they don't need to worry about survival, shouldn't they do a good job taking care of themselves and others? I don't think these girls are doing either. They probably don't have appreciation for the wealth they own. When things are really tough, you appreciate little things, like hot water, enough food, getting a car so you don't have to take the bus, etc. People who have been poor all their lives would probably never feel completely comfortable with wealth. And those who are rich would not be comfortable any other way. See, if you lived your life at the top, where do you have to go? I don't know what's up with these girls, and why they remind me of skeleton whores. (Probably the meanest thing I've said this year- don't like calling women whores). And remember, money's not about cash and metal and plastic- it's about the possibilities. I'm afraid these girls may have no imagination.

Shalom,
Kai
(Your token Jewish commenter)
(What would I do with a lot of money? Well, visit Europe, Japan, and India, start a business selling novelty items, get a kippah for each of my moods, and take a long break and travel across the US like the early settlers would have done. Oh, and buy fine tea and chocolate. Mmm.)

[Jan]

You know, I really like their clothing and who can not applaud that they're trying to do something of their own?

[Candice]

Very Tim Burton, thus, I absolutely approve.

[Damien]

Yeah I heard they lurk in subway stations and still the souls of helpless children.

[Anita]

Hehe, when I first read the title, I thought you were going to show a picture of their shaggy unshaven legs or something. Now THAT would be scary!

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...the $8,000 handbag is not large enough! The ones they usually carry are big enough to carry each other in...

[Sarah Jean Snarker]

I would buy a copy of this drawing. I love it!

[MollieBee]

Remember all the countdowns to their 18th birthday and all the skeezy men who lusted after them as squeaky clean teenagers? I think in trying to shed those losers and that image, they went a bit too far the other way.

Great in theory, not in practice?

[Anoop]

you forgot the buckets of starbucks!

[Javelin]

This piece is truly billiant. The charcoal and pastel combined with your exaggeration of their features gives this picture a child-like realism which brings to light the delightful absurdity of the twins.

[visare]

hi i love you

[Cheezwiz]

Perfect! although more abstract than some of your other paintings, it is an EXACT, and I mean EXACT likeness of them!

[Cookie]

I think I'm starting to appreciate the little imps. They are actually very classy compared to the rest of the Hollywood-under 25-jet-setters. Think about it: They wear underpants in public, aren't in rehab, haven't run over any photographers, haven't had any homemade sex-tapes get into the wrong hands, don't accessorize with monkeys or small dogs, and generally don't speak while in public.

[Viper Tetsu]

Thank you for revealing the truth in this (customarily ace) charcoal rendering. The Olsen Twins are sleestaks. Oh, sweet Jesus in a rusty El Camino, the fucking Olsen Twins are fucking Sleestaks.

Huzzah!