Painting shirt

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1. Lisa B. says

   I’m a pant leg per­son, myself. Right pant leg, and red is the dom­i­nant color. Do real peo­ple actu­ally wear artist’s smocks?

   9 June 2008, 5:52 AM Reply
2. David says

   Lisa,

   I find the shirt is closer to my paint­ing hand, and so is a shorter trip between the paint­ing and the cloth. But dif­fer­ent strokes and all that.

   I’ve seen pic­tures of artists work­ing in smocks, but never actu­ally seen it in real life. What’s really impres­sive are the old pho­tos of guys like J. S. Sar­gent paint­ing in for­mal suits. Appar­ently, that was pretty nor­mal back in the 19^th cen­tury, at least for por­trait painters.

   9 June 2008, 8:58 PM Reply