Works of Art Right at/on Your Feet.
A friend of mine, Martin, whom I’ve known to be a SUPERB (I’m highlighting this because superb isn’t even enough to describe his artistic prowess) artist has recently entered into a small business customizing plain white sneakers into works of art. He lets you have free reign over the design of your shoes. If, say, you would like to have Lloromannic (yes, I like them very much!) on your shoes, he’ll paint them on a pair of plain white sneakers and you can rest assured that he will do an amazingly impeccable job at it.
Need proof? Here are some of his works. Prepared to be blown away!
Dali’s Persistence of Memory
Magritte’s Son of Man
da Vinci’s Mona Lisa
Cover of Harry Potter Book 7
Bob Marley, Audrey Hepburn, and Marilyn Monroe
and, of course, our faaavorite kitten, Hello Kitty!
Beautiful pieces of art, right?
March 1st, 2008 at 3:07 am
Wow. Those are really cool. o:
March 1st, 2008 at 3:28 am
They are, no? He did a beautiful job re-creating the Mona Lisa on a pair of sneakers. If I bought them I really wouldn’t be able to use them… I’d be too afraid of getting them dirty!
March 1st, 2008 at 7:27 am
The last pair is my favorite! Heehee!
March 1st, 2008 at 7:33 am
Can I have you face painted on these sneakers too? (hmmm.. isn’t that a bit creepy?)
March 1st, 2008 at 9:11 am
it would be nice to have my kids’ face painted over my sneakers…but I’m not a sneakers person..
I love the Mona Lisa one!
March 1st, 2008 at 9:23 am
harry potter’s cool too! hahahhaha
March 1st, 2008 at 11:13 am
Cool!!! Hand-paint? I was going to comment that painting a Hello Kitty seems a lot easier than painting the other characters, but then I noticed that the whole shoe was painted with Hello KittyS!
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:57 pm
manilafashionobserver: They are super cute, no? One problem lang I’m not too fond of the style of the sneaker itself :p I *LOVE* MFO both at sanriotown and blogspot!
dianaslittlehelper: I think you can. He did a pair with the face of the owner on the sneakers. It was a bit cartoon-ish though, but I loved what he did with that all the same. You can check out his Multiply site.
mrsawesomeplanet: AWW!! That’s a really cute idea!!!
They’re not that expensive naman so I don’t think you’ll be compelled to wear them :p
superbong: Yeaahh, Harry Potter is the SHIZNIT! :p
tingal79: yup! all hand-painted!! Amazing, huh? Seemed like they were machine printed coz all the hello kitties weren’t deformed or in weird proportions at all!!
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Those. Are. Awesome. I love the Potter ones! The sneakers themselves don’t look all that pretty though.:(
March 4th, 2008 at 2:12 am
iheartbadtz: Yup that’s my only complaint about them, the shoes! wah! They just remind me of old people, brisk walking, and Greenhills.
March 5th, 2008 at 2:10 am
Ah, but hand-painted and machine-painted are totally different, no?