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.
1 comment:
thats really cool!
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