Doodle Shoes

I noticed the other day while failing to buy an iPhone (because Telstra and Optus both won’t let you pre-order, or let you know when new stock arrives) that those simple, cheap canvas shoes that I used to wear in the 80s are in a lot of shops – in lots of colours.

So I picked up a few pairs on sale. And did to them what we used to do back in the 80s, except that now we have fabric pens that don’t need to be ironed to set, and I’ve had a lot of practise doodling lately.



It was a fun way to fill an hour or so while waiting for kitchen cabinets to be delivered. I have another pair, white and without laces, to play with.

Doodling on stuff to wear is an idea I’ve seen around a bit lately. There’s the Doodle Addict T-shirt on Doodler’s Anonymous and… wouldn’t you know it? I can’t find the blog I saw the shoes covered in drawings on. I’ll link to it if I stumble on it again.

3 thoughts on “Doodle Shoes

  1. Oh those are cool… I used to paint shoes years ago. People would bring me their old stained tennis shoes and I’d paint them in different themes… watermelons, beach, football, soccer, sunflowers. What ever they wanted… great way to cover the stains. Sometimes I’d paint a sweatshirt or t-shirt and the shoes to match.

    • Wow! I’d love to see those.

      I painstakingly painted music patterns all over my sneakers when I was a teenager – and then I didn’t want to wear them in case I got them dirty!

  2. I may have one sweat shirt left…. I don’t even know if I still have pictures. I’ll have to do some digging. I’ll let you know when I post them to my blog.

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