Decorating white trainers with acrylic paint
So, these look great at a festival or with a summery outfit: your own, uniquely decorated trainers. You decide completely what you paint on them. I went for cheerful Mexican floral motifs, nice and colourful and sunny. But really, anything goes! Let yourself go!
Tools
- White or light-coloured canvas trainers
- for heat erasable pen or pencil
- Acrylic markers or fabric markers
- Black waterproof fineliner
Instructions
- Remove the laces and clean the shoes. A 30°C wash in the machine or a baking soda solution will work wonders. Don't worry if there are minor marks on the shoes, you can just paint over them.
- Use a heat-erasable pen to draw your design onto the shoes. You can also lightly sketch with a pencil, making sure your pencil has a good sharp point. For inspiration, try searching for ‘Mexican florals’. They are brightly coloured flowers. You can choose to make the shoes the same, then you draw everything in mirror image. But of course, you don't have to!
- Colour your drawing in with the markers. I used fabric markers, but you can also use regular acrylic markers. You can also paint the shoes with acrylic paint and a brush. Use a fine brush. If you want, you can mask off parts you don't want to paint with masking tape, such as the soles.
- When the paint is completely dry, you can add some accents with a white acrylic marker.
- Finally, outline the drawings with the black fine-liner to finish them off.
- Laces are back in and you can head out in your new trainers!