Harry Brush

[shanmonster]

I have a mutant hair that periodically sprouts from my right forearm. I named it Harry. It's a long, black wispy hair, and definitely stands out amongst the fine, short, almost invisible hairs which otherwise populate my forearm. I'm painting away in my china painting class today when I notice Harry for the first time in a few months. "Well, hello there," I think.

And then I note a similarity between Harry and the individual hairs on my paint brush.

Has anyone ever made a paintbrush out of mutant arm hairs? I'd be willing to give it a go, but with how sporadically Harry reappears, I think it might be decades before I'd harvested enough for a brush.

Yeah, I'm weird.

Comments

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

Aren't the very finest sumi-e brushes made of human hair?

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

All sorts of different kinds of hair, depending on the effect you're going for. Mine is made of wolf hair.

I don't know that any are made of mutant arm hairs, though.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

When I was in Japan, I met an artist who had made brushes out of his daughter's hair. The hair on her head, of course.

I think you'd have to harvest a few other forearms besides yours to get enough mutant hairs for a brush. I've found my mutant forearm hairs to be stiff and wiry, and not really suited for a brush.

Yeah, you're weird. Don't let it bother you, though.

[silverfae.livejournal.com]

I have a weird hair that sprouts out of my neck that way, but it's blond.. I'm a redhead.

I love that it grows very long, if I let it.