“Saturday Night Live” veteran Kevin Nealon has a new comedic outlet: Painting celebrity caricatures
The comedian who’s performed so many physical impressions now devotes long hours to his painterly impressions of famous faces.and you’ll see his skewed view of such showbiz friends as Dana Carvey and Dave Chappelle, as well as Hollywood acquaintances like Lauren Bacall and Emma Stone.
Now, the 68-year-old Emmy nominee is sharing his art as curated experience. His playful portraits of entertainers present and past will be on display in his first art book, the highly engaging “Nealon says this collection was largely born of the pandemic: “I started drawing a lot because I couldn’t do comedy. I realized that the caricatures were nonverbal comedy.
“He really works at capturing the essence of a person,” Paisley says by phone from the Nashville area. So is Nealon’s portrait of Paisley a truthful depiction? “Yeah, unfortunately,” Paisley says with a laugh, noting that his portrait deftly reflects how he smiles in concert when something especially tickles him.
Paisley sees a connection between Nealon’s comedy and art. “He finds humor in some of life’s simplest things,” the singer says. “He’s able to take something that you would think of as a bedrock of reality, and he exposes it as absurd. And he’s done that with all of our faces.”Nealon wryly acknowledges that developing his eye for caricature has affected him: “Whenever I’m walking around, I don’t see people in their regular form. I see them with their exaggerated features.
The comedian has drawn inspiration from another friend: esteemed caricature artist Jason Seiler. “I can honestly say that I was shocked when I saw Kevin’s work, and to be honest, a little annoyed,” says Seiler, noting that caricature is about more than lampooning a face. It requires capturing a person’s essence, likeness and feeling.Nealon has long been fascinated with the humorous line.
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