I know some painters are tidy, and they clean their brushes on a soft dry cloth. I am lazy, and I clean my brush on my old black jeans. They are from 30 pounds ago, so they weren’t doing anything productive anyway. Same for the shirt. Now that I’ve been painting for months I wish I had pressed my too-tight white jeans into service instead: that would be a glorious colorfest.
I know some painters wear smocks to protect their clothing, but that seems inefficient to me. Why not just combine the clothing AND the smock AND the soft dry cloth?
I am sad to say that putting on the painting pants was the only artistic thing I did today. I meant to paint for a few hours, but I never got to it.
2 responses to “Palette Pants”
Personally, I think this is brilliant, provided you can get the clothing off without getting paint everywhere you don’t want it (the advantage of smocks is that you can sort of fold them together on themselves).
But yes, a sigh of regret that these are not your white jeans. But if they *had* been, then perhaps your brush-wiping would have been constrained to maintain artistic effect on your jeans as well as the function, and creative multitasking often works out poorly. So there is that.
KC – As you descibe, I do fold the jeans and shirt in on themselves.As for the white jeans, now that I think of it, all colors combine to grey or black, so at first it would be a rainbow but with time would be as dull as my black jeans.
I always like the way palettes look, the way an orchestra tuning up sounds, and the way scraps taste. I like the process as much as the result.