Painting Aprons

My boss decided to have us wear aprons at work, to help distinguish us from the students to those who were new to the shop. And trust me, we got all sorts of new people seeing as we’re a tourist town as well as a college town. When she told us we could decorate our aprons, I had started painting a phoenix on mine to use up some paint I didn’t like, while my boss doodled on hers. After a while, she got sick of her doodles and contemplated using a different apron. I offered to paint a locomotive on her apron to cover up the doodles, but instead she had me paint on a whole new apron. As seen below!

Now, these images were taken before I washed the apron. This is as clean and crisp anyone’s ever going to see them ever again. Like I said, I’m not a big fan of the paint I used, for more than one reason. But considering how well it did after I washed my apron, I thought it would hold up just as well with my boss’. I was wrong. However, I think it still looks nice with the faded style to it. ~shrugs~

I started with the locomotive above first. I worked from a photograph that was on the cover of a Southern Railway book. ( MBI Railroad Colory History's Southern Railways by Tom Murray. ) Because I was using someone else’s photograph, I am unable to charge my boss for the project, as that would be copy write infringement. Not that I would want to, I’m glad to make her happy with little things like this. ^_^ She was, however, really nice to let me use the paints from our stock free of charge.

The Southern Railway is my boss’ favorite line. And she insisted on having the logo above specifically with the bar beneath it. The Southern Crescent logo seen below is her favorite passenger line. Originally, it was requested to paint the logo below on the locomotive; however she changed her mind and decided to put it on the side pockets instead.

Below is the logo for the shop I work at. 20 years ago, it first opened as a hobby train supply store. But as time went by and the ownership changed, it soon evolved into a duo train supply store as well as an art supply store. With the growth of SCAD ( Savannah College of Art and Design, which I am an alumni of. ) my boss saw the benefit to catering to the increase of students in town as well as to the train buffs. Nicely enough, the architect students find uses for the train scenery that we keep in stock, such as the trees and gravel, and as of a year or two ago we started making supply kits for first year students’ fundamental classes. We’re the only art store in town that gives the students a discount, and we’ve gotten many thanks for our efforts and courtesy.

Though it is mentioned above in the title of this journal, no prints will be made of this particular piece, as I’d rather not be sued for copy write infringement. Comments are always welcome.