Angelus Leather Paint for Shoes

A wonderful student saw this and passed it on - I'm going to have to try these paints for leather. Especially as I recently had bit of an ebay boot buying binge and have a few pair patiently waiting in the wings for their day of glory.

Angelus Leather Paint

"Angelus Acrylic Leather Paints are brilliant and opaque in color and are used for decorating, staining, or edging smooth leather and vinyl articles. Ideal for painting special areas on western boots, belts, tennis shoes, purses, jackets, etc. Angelus Leather Paint, when dry, will not peel, crack, or rub-off. Waterbased for easy clean up."

For those of you who might have missed it 

you can find the shoe painting tutorial HERE. 

New Shoe

Only one done so far.

I think I got a little carried away. My daughter called them psychedelic.

I love them anyway.

Click the tutorials link at the top of the page to read how to do them yourself.
Hopefully I'll get the other one done in time to wear it next week.
Can't wait to teach for the Burke Quilters Unlimited group in DC.
We'll be at the Artistic Artifacts Annex.

Student Spotlight: My 6 Year Old (and the final tutorial wave)

several days of begging and one day to send the shoes through the wash

(twice - this is the third child to wear this pair)

a couple of hours alone with my sharpie collection

(in the room but unsupervised)

Hold the phone folks - here's another artist in the house!!!

(but then, I already know that)


Today is the final wave of Art Spark's Tutorial Tsunami
visit Judy Coates Perez to learn how to print on tea bags

hop over to Gloria Hansen's blog for painted shibori

and finally to Alma Stoller for to recycle magazine pages into mixed media art

Tutorial: Painting Shoes

Welcome to the Shoe Tute

Part of Art Spark's Tutorial Tsunami!

Question?


What can a person do with some acrylic paints, brushes, some nifty new paint markers, and a favorite pair of old but comfy shoes?

Answer!

 Get some STYLE my friend!

Ready? Find a pair of shoes, preferably leather. My favorite comfy shoes were my first try - they couldn't look any worse so there was nothing to lose eh? My next pair were a great pair of  NAOT's (one of the very few brands that fit me.) I think these were as cheap as they were on Ebay because they were kind of an ugly color. Maybe you'll have the same luck as I did there.

You'll need: shoes, fingernail polish remover, gesso, acrylic paint, spray sealer. Optional - sharpie, paint markers.

Take the shoes and clean them up as much as you can then rub a little nail polish remover all over them . It roughs them up and removes any finishes so the paint will stick to the leather.

Prime the shoes with a layer of gesso then let them dry.

Chose one or several base paint colors and block them in. That just means put the colors where you want them. I used textile paint because those happened to be the paints I have on hand. I did choose opaque paints rather than transparent in order to get better coverage. 

I like using the paint markers next to doodle in some shapes. You could also choose to start out with the sharpie and doodle designs onto your color blocks. On the blue shoes I painted blue first, purple next, used the sharpies, then filled in spots with the paint markers. For the red shoes, I knew I wanted them to be RED, RED, RED so I kept it monochromatic. I was so excited about the paint markers that I played with those first then filled in around them with the sharpies.

Loved what was happening here so I kept going and doodled more with the sharpie. Uh... didn't like it much. Hey - not a problem! Now I know what I want. Paint back over it and decide that for this particular shoe, less is enough!

 

Take the shoe outside, stuff the inside with newspaper, tape off the soles if you'd like to then spray a thin coat of sealer to protect the paint.Wait patiently for the stuff to dry then wear with STYLE!

Now don't forget that Alisa Burke also has a tutorial today. An adorable altered tank top!


If you missed the first wave of tutorials you can check out Melanie, Diana, and Jane for their fabulous tutorials!