Hand Painted Canvas Slip On Shoes

 

I painted frog shoes 🐸
These are my new favourite thing I have painted! 🐸
I am working up to painting a pair of new Vans. These are my old Vans, which looked scruffy, loved and have holes. 🐸

 

I might have to hide them from Robert, because he loves frogs too, and will be jealous of my beautiful frog shoes. 🐸
Still not sure what to paint on the new shoes, how will I think of anything better than this?

 

These Sunflowers are off to a new home, and an adventure, to get life tested, by my friend Deb.

 

    

Canvas Shoes, inspired by green ants and their nests.
As you know, green ants and their intricate nests fascinate me, and the beauty of their colonies never cease to inspire me.

 

Finsbury, the adventurer, is captured on one shoe, with his curious eyes and waiting impatiently for us to go on our next walk.  On the other shoe, I've painted Alice, always friendly and smiling, looking as happy as ever with her wagging tail and perked-up ears.

Hand-painted these canvas shoes, with my adorable Aussie Terriers, Finsbury and Alice!  These little fur-balls are my walking buddies, and I couldn't resist immortalizing their cuteness on these canvas canvases! 

 
I'm thrilled with how it turned out!  Now, I can carry a piece of my furry family wherever I go!

 

4 O'clock Moths, Dysphania numana.
I love the blues and yellows of this moth, they are new to me since moving back to Darwin, but lives all over. (Have you ever seen one?)
These are another test design on a pair of Kmart shoes.

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In the artist journey, every experience, every observation has the potential to spark inspiration, to morph into an integral part of our creative process. From the images shared, you've glimpsed my brief affair with transforming canvas shoes into wearable art.

What caught my interest was the potential to play with my personal style, influenced by fashion icon Iris Apfel, and admiring fabrics by  bippidii boppidii with the local fauna and flora.

Around that time an other artist I admire suggested that dressing as an artist helps to stop some of the imposter syndrome we all get, and helps people, that we are asking to take us seriously as professional artists, buy in.

So, as I do, I hyper focused on canvas shoes for a time.

Yet, as I stood on the brink of this new endeavor, practicality reared its head. The thought of stocking up on shoes in every conceivable size, only to potentially watch them gather dust, was daunting. The fear of being left with a personal collection of unsold art, a tangible reminder of failure, dimmed my enthusiasm.

And so, I wonder if I've narrowly avoided a misstep or if I've missed out on a chance to leave my footprint (pun intended) on the art and fashion scene. The question lingers, unanswered, but perhaps that's just the nature of the artistic path—filled with 'what ifs' and paths not taken. Yet, even in this uncertainty, there's a peculiar comfort, knowing that each decision, each risk considered and either taken or set aside, is a marker on this creative journey.