Canvas shoes(:

 Hey guys! So I love wearing my white canvas... But I was thinking about spicing them up a little by painting them. So I thought I would post some tips if you guys wanted to try it.

• Plan Ahead

Drawing on shoes is not the same as drawing on paper if you mess up you won't be able to erase it as easily. So I would recommend drawing it on a paper first and then carefully drawing it on the shoes with a pencil. It  will efficiently help cut down the likelihood of messing up.Keep your lines light so that they aren't too obvious. This also allows you to fix any mistakes.

• Draw Outlines

Go over your outline with fabric markers or paint, but a fabric marker will provide a much more stable and solid line, just trace right over the lines that you have just drawn. BE CAREFUL! You won't be able to erase the fabric marker like you could with the pencil.

• Preventing Paint Cracking

Your shoe will bend in certain places and you can't really help that. The bending will probably cause the paint to crack, the best way to avoid this is to paint around those areas. If you decide to try to paint these areas try to modify your design to prevent as much damage as possible. The back of your shoe, the sides, and the tongue are all good places for individual designs.

• Lacquer

After you have finished painting your shoes, spray your shoes with a lacquer to protect the paint as much as possible. This is not going to absolutely protect them but it will deffinantly help, it will protect the fabric that is in the open from light scuffs and scrapes, but they might still crack especially in the places where it folds. It will also give them a varnish layer making them easier to lightly clean without needing to be too worried about damaging the paint.

 

The things you will need

 

1. Plain fabric based shoes like converse, vans, or keds.
2.  Acrylic paint-depending on the pattern, I suggest red, blue, yellow, brown, white, and black. These basic colors can be mixed into any color you need.
3. Firm small paint brushes, preferably nylon
4. paper plate (to pour the paint on), or a paint tray
5. Paint pens
6.  Lacquer and spray bottle
7.  Fabric markers (if decorating a light colored shoes)
8.  Black sharpie pen, for those really fine details
9. optional: Glitter

I hope you all have so much fun making them and get some cute ones!

-Ardeeemilla(:
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