Why I have Diana Ross-esque big poofy hair will be explained in the next post but for now I just wanted to share with you a bit of advice from my dear GCSE art teacher (whose name has slipped off me.... any Henrietta Barnett girls circa 1995-2000 remember?!) who kept on urging me to be more 'Painterly'. I never excelled in precise realistic paintwork but instead I went mental with the paintbrush and just kept on dabbing thick blobs on the paper hoping it would resemble something good by the end of it (even back then, the concept of 'less is more' was lost on me....).
Anyway, the advice wasn't forgotten when I bought another white dress from The East End Thrift Store yesterday and lopped off a unnecessary ruffle at the bottom and just went drybrush mad with some blue, pink and purple fabric paint. Of course, smudges happened and the sink has a bit of a purple tinge going on at the moment but with the right tights, the dress is not looking a complete wreck...
Still me thinks I need to get back to HBS to practise the 'painterly' techniques but also procuring more blank canvas dresses will be key too...
