My Favorite Thing To Paint is Shoes!

My Favorite Thing to Paint is Shoes!

One of the questions I got this week is what is my favorite thing to paint.

Normally I don’t get questions like that so why not answer it in a blog post.

Painting shoes are a lot of fun, and so far I have painted over 100’s designs

in kids sizes as well as adult sizes.

I first started painting custom shoes, when one of my fellow designers, in one of my designer groups, asked me to paint a pair of shoes to match her outfit that she was selling. That experience let me to work with several designers on fun collaboration projects. With the success of my hand painted shoes, I decided to offer my shoe designs on my boutique website.

Here is a quick look at some hand painted shoes, check out the video below.

Shoes have a limited space to paint on, so I have to be creative on how I paint the design. The fun part is to get the clients vision painted onto the shoes. I normally paint both sides of the shoes and paint the child’s name or nickname on the back of the shoe, where the heel of the shoe goes up to the ankle. I always offer the free service to get your child’s name hand painted on the boutique shoes.

My favorite parts of painting shoes are the details. I love painting details and it’s usually the last step I do when I paint shoes. I love creating highlights to make features stand out more. It’s all in the details, some might think its nuts but I can’t send out a pair of shoes if I am not proud of the outcome of the design.

Another thing that I do with my shoes is I personally sign my name inside of each pair of shoes, so the child knows that the shoes where especially designed and hand painted just for them. As an artist I sign all my painted art works so why not shoes.

My most requested designs are on high top shoes and the favorite colors that my clients orders are black and red. The turn around time, on my hand painted shoes are normally 3 days, if I have the shoe size in stock.  I have to let each coat of paint dry for the maximum amount of wear and durability.

I only use the best quality fabric paint so I am happy to say that you can throw my Unique Boutique hand painted shoes into your washer. I wash my daughters hand painted shoes all the time.

My oldest daughter Aaliyah, loves the attention she gets when she wears them and thinks her shoes are really “cool” and that she has a OOAK (one of a kind design).

She is 7 and knows what she wants to wear, here is a recent picture of her when we went to Denmark for our summer vacation. She is sitting in Tivoli, in a well-known Danish restaurant.

To round out the subject of painted shoes, I do give out free pairs of hand painted shoes for my select clients. Furthermore I also give out my hand painted shoes as prices when I have contest going on for my Unique Boutique subscribers.

Hand painted shoes really rounds out a child’s outfit and lets them express their individual personalities. Besides that they are so much fun to paint!

You can check out my selections on custom hand painted boutique shoes and tell me what you think!

Thanks,

Maiken