Painting Shoes
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- Baskerville
I've bought a pair of plain white vans:
http://www.instepdrmartens.com/d…for my gf. I want to paint them for her as part of her xmas present. The paint needs to be waterproof obviously and can't go brittle or it will crack.
I want to paint them with a brush rather than stencilling which would be too messy.
Anyone got any idea what the best kind of paint to use would be? Fabric paint all seems a bit rubbish.
I was thinking maybe screen-printing ink/paint, the kind you use in t-shirt printing as it should be waterproof.
Any help would be appreciated.
The design could be a simple as just a black outline painting but adding colour would be nice!
- Witt0
what's wrong with a common dying tint?
- Baskerville0
I don't know? what is that? tell me more!
- Concrete0
acrylic will be good for that.
I have used it on clothes before.
- Witt0
there is a special product to dye cloth, shoes, etc. don't know about England but over here we can find it in "drugstores".
- agentfour0
you can get water based screen printing paints/inks from london graphics or cass. These will need to be heat set after they dry, but may still crack if applied to thick. If you can get some oil based screen printing inks, these would be the best. Although its a messier clean-up, and i dont know where you would get them. Theyre only usually sold in large amounts to screen printers in like 4 litre bottles or summink.
best bet i think would be the afore mentioned water based inks. Should be fine, as long as you dont paint like rembrandt.
- Witt0
if it's not imperative that you do it yourself, these kind of shops -or similar ones- do it without any mess.
- Baskerville0
thanks guys.
Witt, yes you can buy clothing dye but you usually have to wash it in and it is only really for solid colouring.
I like the idea of making acrylics into fabric paints, just need to find where I can buy some of that stuff. Anyone in the uk know.
Otherwise, will acrylics on their own work? or will they come off after a while?
- agentfour0
formaldahyde ey?
.....sweet!
- paraselene0
i'd just pop down to london graphics tomorrow, take the shoes with you, and ask them what they think. they're sure to have a few different options.
- Baskerville0
Yeah, I'm going to phone them now and ask about the product that was posted that you mix with acrylics, looks good and the company lists LGC on their list of stockists.
Thanks everyone, just thought maybe someone else had done something similar before.