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Alan Bickley

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Paul Elliott

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Back in 1968, I had an art teacher who painted his shoes. He used to turn up in a maroon suit, light blue shirt, orange tie and shoes, painted red (I’m sure with acrylic). Since I was at a military boarding school you can imagine, this came as a bit of a shock. I’ve always loved art and thought that maybe this was a sign that my final years there could be promising. Unfortunately, he was a poor teacher, couldn’t draw and took a dislike to me for some reason. I decided that he was a bit of a fraud and took metalwork and technical drawing instead. I often wonder what would have happened if he had been a bit any good and a bit more supportive.

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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Art teachers do tend to vary hugely in quality - but I'd never trust one who painted his shoes. The answer to the question here was to use fabric paint, but I'm blowed if I could be bothered to suggest anything more expansive; and I hate sneakers anyway.  Or trainers, or whatever they were.  Nothing to do with what this group is about, so the poster is gorn, and never called me mother.  But not banned: might have been a genuine question; and if it was - we really don't do, in rough order: household painting, i.e. doing up your kitchen; face painting; touching up your nick-nacks; or painting your footwear, unless you're doing a still-life study of them.  Because if we did, this site would soon degenerate into DIY corner - or Fun Crafts YOU can do at home!   And b****r that for a game of soldiers. 
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Linda Wilson

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Why not?  I recently bought some leather paint to repair my sofa, only to discover that it is acrylic!  So why not shoes?

Paul Elliott

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Absolutely. I’m thinking of painting my hiking boots with a landscape.
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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A landscape on your hiking boots, or a landscape with your hiking boots, or your boots with a landsca...... I've been feeling guilty ever since I removed this post - and wouldn't have done except I was quick off the mark when a complaint was received.  The answer is - you can paint with acrylic on cloth; you can even paint with acrylic on leather.  But it'll soak into unprimed cloth, and it may peel off from leather - you might reduce that by scuffing the leather, but would you want to...? It would still be, let us be frank, an odd thing to do - but if you really want to do it, you could.  Conceivably, you could even do it with oil paint but .... it would sink in, rot the cloth, if it is cloth rather than leather... and probably make the boot feel pretty horrible within.  But oil will take to leather - I don't think it would last long, subjected to a hike.... but there we are.  

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Virginia Holden

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Why not? Amazing idea
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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What dug this thread up?   Of course you CAN paint on anything: you CAN drink neat bleach - once.  That doesn't make it an especially good idea.  
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Collette Hughes

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What dug this thread up?  
Robert Jones, NAPA on 10/04/2023 18:30:23
I noticed on a PC the last comment in any section get highlighted in the sidebar. After a couple of weeks the highlight disappears. When spam gets removed the last post get re-highlighted even if it's years old. I tend to look at that sidebar, it's easy to mistake it as a new post. 
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Sandra Kennedy

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Yup, the sidebar is the first place I look. Couldn't resist "What dug this thread up", and I always read Robert's posts anyway.

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