Here are some pics from the process of painting a behdety, or winged sun, on my jacket from a while ago.
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I had at first gotten fabric paints, but they were for kids and looked a little too popsicle-like for my liking. I ended up mixing fabric softener into acrylics for the richer shades I ended up adding. The denim grain made a lot of layers necessary, which was a pain, especially for the details, but worth it in my opinion.
For the feathers, I tried to pick a dark teal, evocative of faience, and the lighter blue, close to this "Egyptian blue" I heard about, but I haven't fact-checked if it was a specific shade they mixed. Gold is always a pain to work with but so extra, also worth it. Hopefully the protective spray I got won't destroy the flexibility of the jacket, so I don't have to worry about any of it coming off. Everything else I referenced with pictures, and it was hard to tell what colours some ageing paintings were supposed to be, especially because I have no expertise in Egyptology.
Tbh I have no idea where I'm going to wear this. I wanted to paint protective stuff on it since it's kind of my emotional support denim, and I'm a Kemetic pagan, but it's become clear to me this is extravagant and intimidating. I just felt so strongly that a behdety had to go there. It just 👌it just fits. But I was like, hey maybe some ancient painters would dig this energy.
The big section on the back has been devoted to a pectoral belonging to Tutankhamun, and there's more from a fresco (I think) underneath it that I'm still working on, so maybe I'll post those sometime. It's mostly taken so long because I've been procrastinating.
