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Question about Angelus Paints & Acrylic Durability
Hey all---
I want to add more durability to my custom shoes. I find that my current use of all-surface acrylic paints and sealers are… well—laughable in terms of durability. They show small cracks at a moment’s notice, totally incapable of holding up to the flexing movement of walking in the shoes.
(As a woman, I focus on chick shoes, and the flats move and flex a hellovalot more than sneakers.)
I’m considering trying Angelus Paints. However, not all of the shoes that I go to paint are necessarily real leather. Will Angelus paint adhere to pleather or other synthetic materials?
If Angelus paints can’t adhere, would you recommend the use of the Angelus sealer over the acrylic paint to add durability?
Any advice would be much appreciated!
Help me Sneaker Freakers, you're my only hope.
[NOTE: For a sense of what kind of shoes I'm working on-- search OCDCollection on etsy]
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Re: Question about Angelus Paints & Acrylic Durability
Great question, I would also like to see some input regarding this topic. I've been reluctant to customize leather kick for that same reason and am stuck on canvas shoes like vans and Chuck Taylors.
However I did get a hold of some paints that suppose to be great for Leather and plastics called Phillidelphia they are only sold in Mexico. I will start expirimenting with them this weekend. I'll let you know how those go.
Google: pintura philadelphia to see what I'm talking about
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Re: Question about Angelus Paints & Acrylic Durability
Great, I'd love to hear how it goes!
I purchased some Angelus paints, and intend to do some experimenting myself. However, I've got a handful of orders I need to fulfil before I can try the angelus.
I have found one thing that makes acrylic all-surface paints much more durable and flexible to the movement of shoes--- Golden 900 Fabric Medium does wonders to help the dried acrylic paint bend and flex. You mix 50/50 Golden Fabric Medium and acrylic paint, and voila. A much more durable option that prevents about 90% of the hairline cracks that occurred on my previous shoes.
That being said, I'm not going to abandon my Angelus attempts--- just need to finish fulfilling a bunch of orders first.
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Re: Question about Angelus Paints & Acrylic Durability
Whoa "Golden 900 Fabric Medium" sounds like that's the ticket right there!!! I gotta check it out. Now can you also add this " Golden 900 Fabric Medium " to Angelus paints or other leather paints?
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Re: Question about Angelus Paints & Acrylic Durability
I'm definitely going to give it a shot. I might take a pair of flats and do some colour-blocking-- do a stripe with plain acrylic paint, a stripe with the fabric medium, a stripe with angelus, and a stripe with angelus mixed with the fabric medium.
Promise to report back when I have the time to do the test!
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Re: Question about Angelus Paints & Acrylic Durability
Good Idea OCD, yeah keep me posted I'm very interested in how that works.
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Re: Question about Angelus Paints & Acrylic Durability
I would really like to see a picture of how those stripes come out and then how they look with a little walking around. I can't post up my email address, since i don't have enough posts just yet. If you click on my profile I think you can get my email, if it's no bother to you, shoot me a pic of your experimenting.
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Re: Question about Angelus Paints & Acrylic Durability
I'll defo post the results up here.
But I tried clicking on your profile and got nothing.
I'll post mine here, then edit and remove after you email me yours: jessicaburnie (at) hotmail(dot)com.
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Re: Question about Angelus Paints & Acrylic Durability
Ok sending an email
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