Hello everyone!
Yesterday, while I was looking for shoes to wear for the Mumbai marathon (yes, I went!), I found my own first customized Shoe Stopper pair. When I had started out Shoe Stopper in 2009, I wanted to paint and practice as much as I could; and there, I spotted my year old pale green converse to transform into some new piece of coolness.
Like I said, they were a year old pair of shoes in 2009, so clearly they were sort of worn out already; but that was part of the challenge for me. Could I really transform an old pair of shoes to look like a new one? Only one way to find out...
Thus, I got down to some serious business. First I had to make sure the shoes were sparkly clean. (I do have an obsessive compulsive disorder about hygiene and cleanliness. *hides face*)
I was sure I wanted to paint something with The Simpsons on the shoes considering I had been watching a lot of the sitcom during that period and I was nearly obsessed. But I knew they wouldn't look as great on a military green pair of converse. So I finally settled on the bright yet dark shade of purple to paint over the green. And voila; there I was, three hours later, with a new pair of shoes! :D
The shoes are now three and a half years old, but they're still my favorite pair. Simple, purple, with Bart and Lisa... (enters happy place) Worn out, yet they remind me of what I love doing.
Keeping the art alive,
Devika Bharadwaj,
Founder and Artist,
Shoe Stopper.
Website: http://www.shoestopper.com/
Facebook Fanpage: http://www.facebook.com/shoestopper
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/shoe_stopper
Yesterday, while I was looking for shoes to wear for the Mumbai marathon (yes, I went!), I found my own first customized Shoe Stopper pair. When I had started out Shoe Stopper in 2009, I wanted to paint and practice as much as I could; and there, I spotted my year old pale green converse to transform into some new piece of coolness.
Like I said, they were a year old pair of shoes in 2009, so clearly they were sort of worn out already; but that was part of the challenge for me. Could I really transform an old pair of shoes to look like a new one? Only one way to find out...
Thus, I got down to some serious business. First I had to make sure the shoes were sparkly clean. (I do have an obsessive compulsive disorder about hygiene and cleanliness. *hides face*)
I was sure I wanted to paint something with The Simpsons on the shoes considering I had been watching a lot of the sitcom during that period and I was nearly obsessed. But I knew they wouldn't look as great on a military green pair of converse. So I finally settled on the bright yet dark shade of purple to paint over the green. And voila; there I was, three hours later, with a new pair of shoes! :D
The shoes are now three and a half years old, but they're still my favorite pair. Simple, purple, with Bart and Lisa... (enters happy place) Worn out, yet they remind me of what I love doing.
Keeping the art alive,
Devika Bharadwaj,
Founder and Artist,
Shoe Stopper.
Website: http://www.shoestopper.com/
Facebook Fanpage: http://www.facebook.com/shoestopper
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/shoe_stopper
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| My shoes were of this shade before I painted them... And a lot dirtier... :P (That's a Google image) |
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| This is how my pair of shoes look now, after three and a half years, and after a lot of washing and scrubbing... Not bad, eh? :D |
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