What Are You Wearing?
At the award shows there is always someone asking on the red carpet runway of all the actors and actresses, "Who are you wearing?" I'm asking here, "what are you wearing...when you paint"?
Creating Something Beautiful is Messy Business
Everyone and their mother-in-law has a video of them painting away and perhaps its for video purposes, in clothes that I would be cringing in - in case I ruined them while I paint. Paint smudges just seems inevitable doesn't it? I am forever flicking paint or dropping a paint brush, or running my sleeve in paint without realizing it, then spreading paint all over my shirt. I even have paint on my favorite slippers. (heavy sigh)
Then there are a few videos of the chick in the very pretty flowery-flowy dresses, throwing buckets of paint at the canvas up on the wall or on the floor and splattering paint from wall to wall in her studio. Or taking her bouquet of roses and dipping the whole batch in paint and swooshing them across the canvas, dripping paint across floor and her once pretty dress. Then wallowing on the floor thrashing in paint. I can't even imagine her clothes budget.
Thrift Stores
Sure, I sometimes wear old T-shirts and jeans or leggings as Art Wear. But for me, I like haunting various thrift stores wherever I go for great finds - and I even look for Art Wear. If I can spend a $1 on a big man's shirt to wear over my own clothes or a couple of bucks on a comfy shirt with nice pockets - those are some nice finds for me. Found a decent smock one time too. Just have to get the goods home and into the laundry first.
Aprons just don't seem to have enough protection - maybe more so if you are a standing painter compared to a sitting painter? Not sure.
The newest acquisitions for my Art Wear Collection from a thrift store in Richmond, VA are a couple of Nurses Smocks with big beautiful pockets at $5 each. Can't wait to get paint all over those on the red carpet.
What do you wear while you paint? Do you have a favorite "paint shirt", or overalls, or do you wear an apron? Do you wear a smock? There is NO way an oil or acrylic painter, a charcoal or pastel or ink artist doesn't make some sort of mess! So what do you wear to TRY to offset the potential mess?
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What do I wear when I paint? I’ve ruined several pieces of clothing because I walked into my studio “to just look at” something I was working on previously, picked up a paint brush to “just do this one little thing” and ……….you know how that goes. I get involved and invariably end up with paint on my clothes. Those clothes are now my at home/paint wardrobe. Some T-shirts, some old favorite flannel shirts and my favorite “painting” overalls. These same clothes are also my gardening wardrobe. I do have numerous aprons that I’ve made or been gifted, but I’ve usually made the mess by the time I think of wearing them. My painting clothes are my comfy clothes. They make me happy.
ReplyDeleteThat definitely calls for the saying "Been there, done that!" Repeatedly! My Art Wear Collection keeps growing!
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