Wearable Art Part 1 – Shu’s Shoes : Boho

These shoes are actually not mine – they belong to a friend. I got an sms one fine day out of the blue, saying I could make some money from painting her shoes. I jumped at the chance to paint someone’s shoes. Why didn’t I think of it earlier? Well, I did actually, but there never really was any impetus to make me get down to buying a pair of canvas shoes to paint on and digging out my old acrylics from the store room. I even had to research and test whether the paint is suitable for canvas… I didn’t want to screw up my friend’s pair of Everlast shoes (note, this is not an advertisement for Everlast ) Hence I bought a pair of shoes to “test” on. That pair will be posted up shortly, maybe in a week or two… Meanwhile, here is the pair I painted for her. Judging by how much time and money I spent on the overheads, one would guess that I made a loss out of this transaction, but this was a “labour of love” and money was not really an issue…

My friend asked for a design that “could be shamelessly colourful” and “gypsy.” I wouldn’t normally paint so many different colours together, but that was how she wanted it… after seeing it, she described it as “trippy,” and so I hope you feel trippy after looking at these shoes

Acrylic on canvas.