The Artist Not Wearing Banksy or Hirst

I've been toiling away in my studio for the past week or so on a little something something.  Ready?  Oh, but first, let me show you the latest Style Imitating Art inspiration...

Roller Rat by Banksy

Everyone's probably familiar with England's (in)famous street artist, Banksy.  But perhaps you were like me and unaware of this particular piece which has a hilarious back story.  Given a museum show in Bristol, Banksy had several rooms of his work, plus he put things amongst the museum's regular collection.

Lo and behold, the art world's darling, Damien Hirst, had one of his ridiculously expensive spot paintings housed there.  And that is what it looks like now after Banksy painted over it adding his trademark rat.  hee hee hee.

Okay, now you're ready to see what I've done after the break!

the artist in her studio, not wearing a Banksy or a Hirst

Nice, huh?  I designed it myself, the top I mean, not the image.  Using my true love's scrap pieces of canvas, I sewed 3 strips together to make a poncho-type form and then came up with a fastening devise for the sides of buttons and loops.  I used seam binding for the round hole I cut in the center for my head and also along the bottom hemline.  The sleeve edges are the selvedges.   I laid the whole thing out flat to paint the spots with my acrylic paint, basically just using red, yellow, blue and white.  When that dried I slapped on the gray mixing black with white.  And finally topped it off with his ratness. 

I actually have detailed shots of the garment on my dress form for those of you who might be interested.  Just click on Clothes for Winter  under "The Artist Not Wearing Banksy or Hirst" to see 'em.

And now, I'm joining Patti and the Visibles at Not Dead Yet Style as well as the crowd at Monday Mingle.  To see what others did with Banksy's artwork, check Style Imitates Art on Tuesday.  Can't wait.  I'm going to take part in Lakota's Ta-dah Tuesday and the Pleated Poppy too.

And since I've decorated myself, more or less, I'm in for the Ethical Fashion Bloggers December Christmas challenge.  It illustrates my thoughts about the holidays exactly come to think about it.

You can also find my how-to on Refashion Co-op.

This just in...linking up to Spy Girl's 52 Pick-me-up: Cartoon.  Check it out.