Custom Plimsoles Part 4

Haven't updated in a while. Forgot to upload such things as these two pairs of finished plimbrogues!

Roof Part 3

Colour Options!

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Roof Part 2

It is done, and it proved surprisingly difficult, probably because I still have a lot to learn about Illustrator. No title yet.


And a detail, on the darker colour I picked out from the Threadless options:

Roof Part 1

I'm gonna keep redoing this until it's right. It's destined to be a T-shirt design but it should work for its own sake too.

Initial sketch:


Early attempt in illustrator:

Custom Plimsolls Part III

New Idea: Plimbrogues!

Soon I will turn this sketch into reality.

Custom Plimsolls Part 2

Click here for Part 1

I used water-based fabric paint for this. The brushes I had weren't too precise so I relied on masking tape to get all the lines. I masked off all the rubber areas first. Then I masked off a triangle on each shoe and roughly brushed in where I wanted the yellow to be, watering it down a bit to soften the edges. I felt I couldn't be sure of lining up purple and yellow areas with no gap or overlap, and a full undercoat of yellow would have affected the purple, so I just made the yellow areas a bit bigger and rougher.


All edges had to be masked. I dry brushed the smaller triangle in the middle there just to act as a guideline for placing the tape later. My isometric grid system meant I'd be putting down tape just to get the placement right of the adjacent bit of tape, then taking the first bit off again before I started painting.



Once I started taking tape off I noticed some retouching was needed in a few places. You'll notice the paint dries lighter.




Once they were done they just needed fixed with an iron, then they were ready to wear.


I'm on the lookout for some suitable coloured laces.

Custom Plimsolls Part 1

I got some new plimsolls, but I decided to make them a bit different. Here's the before shot.
I messed around with mock ups in Photoshop.






I decided on something triangular. I found that with a 60 degree angle I could make a isometric grid with masking tape, and use that to make triangular patterns with fabric paint.




I was gravitating towards something based on this: The Sierpiński Triangle.

Next post: painting the shoes!

A Fleck of Dust

Inspired by Carl Sagan's Reflections on a Mote of Dust.

Water Beetle

I painted this board ages ago, but I just decided to do the pen lines last week.

Opening Shot

I'm gonna try to let the pictures to most of the talking here, not that they'll always be trying to say something.
Anyway I thought this painting from a few years back would be an appropriate start.

Stay Close to Me
(Wax on board, 2005)

Sometimes the art wants to speak for itself, with no explanations, but the title on the foamboard says "Say Close to Me". I could say more, but I won't.