12 January 2010

Pro's and Cons

Japanese wave inspired custom painted chucks. These are really simple all you need is a black sharpie and white watered down acrylic or fabric paint (and a small paint brush would possibly help). Find an image you like and one that matches the colour of the shoe, do not, under any circumstance use images from Twilight. You will have to paint the same image four times, so choose something relatively simple.
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Draw the outline with the black marker, no point using a pencil unless your sneakers are white.


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paint it!
I painted several layers, building up the white to get the gradient effect. I used Liquitex acrylic paint, any good quality acrylic paint will do the job (I added a bit of water added to thin it out to get the layers, could also use pouring medium for diluting), or fabric paint if you have it.  Repeat on all sides until you see waves when you close your eyes.
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voila!
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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

wow! brilliant zan :) so so so clever...

Unknown said...

That is so cool! I am paint challenged person (unless it is a big, flat wall)so I stand in awe of your talent!

Junie Moon said...

I learned about your awesome shoes on the One Pretty Thing blog. I'm so impressed and think this is a fantastic project. Thank you for sharing your art shoes as well as the process you utilized.

Sweetie Pie Suite said...

these are great! love them!!!

Matt said...

Awesome Zan! I love Chucks!

dave said...

very.
cool.

Anonymous said...

AAAAUUUUUUGH, too beautiful.
X David, NYC