My Wimbledon obsession reaches its apex today, with the revealing of a new pair of shoes. As I said in an earlier post, I wanted the design to be clean and crisp, leaving a lot of white space.

The end result is quite minimal – especially considering I normally like to cover the majority of the front of the shoe, but it makes for a nice change from those busy designs. I stuck with the emerald green and dark purple colour combination, and used a lot of straight lines (which can be a pain to paint on a curved surface), and I’m happy to say that they came out just as I’d hoped.

One variation from the original conception was that I thought it apt to use Fred Perry shoes, or perhaps Keds, but Johnny (the owner of the pair) opted for a more affordable brand (Fred Perry can be pretty expensive in France) – although to be honest, as far as I can tell the shoes themselves are practically identical to their more-expensive Keds equivalents.

On the left heel, I painted a Le Shouvre logo, this time with a tennis ball as the “O”. Unfortunately the brush that I normally use for lettering had frayed, so I had to use a thicker one, resulting in slightly uneven text – but I just got a new brush this morning, so hopefully that won’t happen again!

More pics here