Craftiness: How to Upgrade Boring White Sneakers With Watercolor

How to Upgrade Boring White Sneakers With Watercolor

We’re all about watercolor right now. We just love the way the colors melt together to create a beautiful work of art. Though watercolor is mostly famous for its use in traditional paintings, we’re down to apply it to other — more unexpected — projects. Today, we’re taking the paintbrush to some shoes to create the perfect pair of watercolor sneakers for your spring wardrobe. Created by Alyssa at Random Acts of Pastel, we’re swooning over these pink, purple and blue beauties.

Materials and Tools:

— white sneakers
— watercolor paint
— iridescent medium (optional)
— two jars of water
— a few paintbrushes
— fabric medium

Instructions:

1. Mix your colors by watering down each shade and testing the color on a paper towel. If you want to make a color shimmery, add a touch of iridescent medium (we did this with the green and blue for a mermaid-like effect).

2. Start painting your shoes! Use bigger brushes to cover more surface area, then add details and different colors with a smaller brush. There’s no wrong way to do this!

3. Wait until the paint has dried, then paint over the entire shoe with a mix of three parts water and one part fabric medium. This will seal in the colors so they last.

Testing your colors on a paper towel before painting works well, since the texture is similar to the canvas shoes.
Pull out the laces if you don’t want to get paint on them (or if you aren’t into wearing laces at all!).
Look at these pretty little toes.
So sole-ful :)
Finish them off with a mix of three parts water and one part fabric medium to seal the deal.
And there you have it — one of a kind shoes that look like you’re walking on a work of art.