This is the t-shirt I paint in most of the time. As you can see, I often wipe my brush or palette knife on the shirt as I work.
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This is the t-shirt I paint in most of the time. As you can see, I often wipe my brush or palette knife on the shirt as I work.
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9 June 2008 at 5:52 AM
Lisa B.
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 at 8:58 PM
David
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 19th century, at least for portrait painters.