Quite a few of my Flickr contacts have been drawing shoes lately, and I have been thinking of drawing this pair for quite awhile as they are my current fave pair of shoes (that doesn't mean I wear them alot, it means I like their looks alot!). So I finally broke down and painted them last night, in watercolor. This is what I call a pair of open toe, slingback pumps, slingbacks for short.
After my friend Andrea posted what she calls a pump on Flickr and her blog: http://www.flickr.com/photos/80676961@N00/737158218" and http://www.flickr.com/photos/80676961@N00/801116733/ and her blog: http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/ we had quite a discussion about what a pump is. There are different definitions in Britain and America, we discovered. So we wrote some comments back and forth about it, my research on the matter summarized here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayork/348005813/ It was fun talking about! Hope you enjoy this painting, too!
(Sorry, I've tried making the links hot again, but can't seem to do it, no techno-geek me!:~(
Oh, I just thought I would mention Bastille Day since that's what it is today, and I have some French blood in me!
7 comments:
Very nice painting! I could sure use a pair of shoes like that: very stylish.
Hi Martha and thanks for visiting! Glad you like it! What size are you? Maybe we can arrange a swap?
he he! I do love this paintig of yours. It's even better closer up!
Hi again Andrea! Thanks for your comment, I did think you would really like these shoes based on what I have seen of yours!
But they really are too tight across for me :~(
hey the shoe is great and your drawing too!
just sending you a link: http://illustrationcontest.blogspot.com/2007/08/and-winner-is.html
:)
Thanks so much, Kerstin! I've got to spend some time and write a new blog entry about the illustration contest!
wonderful paiting...looks real...I'd prefer the same model josef seibel shoes for my wife....
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