Thursday, February 16, 2012

My eyeballs will find canvas to paint

I've been in the mind set of making this project for about 2 weeks now. I went to Big Lots a few weeks ago and found a pair of canvas flats for 6 bucks. They had pink, ivory, and black. I bought the pink ones. They were a pretty pink, and HELLO 6 bucks??? Well once I had them home I threw my hand up to my forehead and realized "Duh these would be great to alter for 6 bucks!!". I didn't want to alter the pink ones as they are a lovely shade of pink and work just as they are, but....the black ones they had there totally could be painted on...

I went back the next day of course and bought another pair of 6 dollar shoes. I mean really though. I can't get over the price.

Here's what they looked like when I bought them.


 I then took them and drew out what I wanted to paint on them. I knew I wanted to make them have green moths on them. Here's what they looked like with the white outline drawn on. The pen I used is in the picture.



Now this only took me like a  day to do. I left them sitting with the white outline drawing on them for about a week or so. I just didn't feel like painting them. It's something I wanted to make sure I had enough time to finish all in one sitting. I didn't want to do one shoe, then not be able to finish the other. Here's how they came out.

 I'm obviously feeling the altering thing right now. lol. I love my new shoes. I wish they had white ones. The ivory ones were too..ivory/tanish. I didn't like the shade.
Today I'm hopefully going to work on the button challenge card for jinglebelles and eat some lunch. Have a great Thursday!

5 comments:

Julie Tucker-Wolek said...

You are sooooooooo talented!!! They look AWESOME!! Love them!

Oil Painting on Canvas said...

realy such a nice work i salute your work from my heart i like this very muc thanks for sharing with us.

Oil Painting on Canvas

lauren bergold said...

OH.
MY.
GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pleasepleasepleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease can i commission (& PAY!!!) you to make me some??!?!?!?! they are absolutely ♥♥♥AWE♥♥♥SOME♥♥♥! (but mine don't have to be exactly the same, you can have creative carte blanche!!!) (ok, except for legless reptiles, b/c then i'd never be able to put my feet in them. EVER! but other than that!!!)

ok, i gotta go stare at these some more and try not to get drool on my keyboard, especially since i spilled granola on it last week and the drool would probably fuse to it and make sticky rocks that glue the letters down which could be problematical!!!!

ps: you are ♥AMAZING♥!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jana said...

These are marvelous. What a wonderful bargain too.

ArtfulLee Designed said...

Hi Ginna
I just love these shoes, they are fabulous. How clever you are!
Lee:)