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By Donna Sisson
At one time, wearing clothes with paint on them
vcl3 unheard of. Now people do it on purpose
earning and spending good money on painted
clothes.
Leann Wooten, a UNL art student, is one artist
who earns money painting and selling T-shirts. In
fact, she said, she used it as a sole source of income
for a semester.
Wooten said it started when she painted a T-shirt
for something different to wear; then her friends
wanted T-shirt3 and it snowballed into a larger
enterprise.
The most difficult part of shirt-painting was hav
ing the confidence to sell her shirts, Wooten said.
With any medium, a person could be a good artist
but not sell anything because they don't have the
backbone, she said.
Wooten's T-shirts retail for $22 to $30 in a Mil
waukee Wis. art museum, in stores in Omaha's Old
Market area and in five Lincoln stores, she said. The
stores range from fine dres3 shop3 to stores like
Lincoln's Dirt Cheap. All types of people have
bought them even a New York fashion model,
Wooten said.
Each shirt has the brand nameBoona and carries
Wooten's name, ensuring originality, she said.
The process begins with regular T-shirts. She cuts
the necks and sleeves and paints them with an
acrylic base paint. The paint is mixed with other
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ingredients to make it more pliable for wash, she
said.
In painting her T-shirts, she uses vivid coors
which play against each other and creates texture
by combining organic shapes with geometric shapes.
Wooten said.
The designs are best described as a combination
of New Wave and American primitive art, which
both have influenced her, Wooten said.
Wooten does other art as well, concentrating on
abstract expressionist painting. Although Wooten
specializes in fine arts and not commercial arts,
Wooten said painting T-shirts lets her work with
something she likes to do. And, They sell better than
paintinp."
Clothing is a personal statement, Wooten said,
and it's flattering when somebody wears her art.
Wooten said she would like to "stick with it," go to
larger cities and possibly start a line of Boona Baby
T-shirts or paint other types of clothing.
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Most stores which sell
Mufich snediers onfy carry
about six designs, Jones
said. There may be sev
eral stores in one area
selling the shoe3 and they
will all have different shoes,
she said. In Lincoln, they
can be bought at Redmans
Shoes, 130 N. 13th St. and
200 N. 66 St., where they
sell for $28.89
Mufich shoes can also
be painted to order. It
about a week
paint the shoes and they
can be delivered in two
weeks, Jones said.
Jones said the shoes
are selling better than ex
pected. Initial sales pro
jections were about $1
million but after the first
quarter and the adver
tisements in Seventeen Ma
gazine, that figure seem3
conservative, she said.
It is a comfortable shoe
that one year ago wouldn't
have been worn with a
dress, Jones siad.
theartandgrcsgrain ribbon
lacing, the sneaker has
been upgraded and is no
longer limited to casual
wear, she said.
New fashions feature
colorful earrings, hair
Whether it's an attempt to be fancy, fashiona
ble or fun, people are turning to original artistic
accessories to perk up their summer wardrobe.
One of the newer accessories is handpainted
jewelry, such as earrings like those on display at
Dirt Cheap, 217 N. 11th St., and 220 N. 66th St.
The earrings are available in countless abstract
shapes and designs and come in a variety of bold
and pastel colors. Three designers who produce
hand-painted earrings are Laural Burch, Gor
man Designs and Holly Yashi.
For those who want to appear more perman
ently painted, there also are various new tech
niques for hair coloring as an expression of "body
art." New lines of formulas are coming out specifi
cally for applying brighter colors, said Catherine
Wiedel, hair and wig stylist at Lucile Duerr Hair
styling Salon.
Technically, it is not called hair painting, but it
is a process of zoning or surfacing, Wiedel said. It
is a basic tinting process, but with stronger and
darker colors.
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