Thread: Some pretty wierd footwear

Following on from my last post "Some reasonably normal boots".........
When you spend hours/weeks working on a particular theme you get lots of time to contemplate your subject matter. Whilst working on the last lot I stumbled across a book by another cartoonist, "The R.Crumb Coffee Table Art Book" by the American underground cartoonist Robert Crumb. This book is not exactly what you would call politically correct, I'm sure there are some people who might even find it offensive. Whatever your views, this guy can really draw. I was taken with the way he draws footwear in some of his illustrations.......So the next boots I tried to give a bit of a "cartoony" look. These are about 4ft 6inches long, made from unknown timber and rough off the tool finished.boots.jpg They were exhibited in one of the "Sculpture by the Seas"in Sydney. They did not sell and ended up back in my shed taking up more room than desired. The decision was made to work one up a bit, add more detail if you like. Hopefully to increase the chance of a sale. So this is the result after many weeks work,shhoooeeee.jpg stain was used to try and make it look a bit more realistic.
Continuing on with the cartoonish theme the idea arose to hybridise a steel capped workboot with a stiletto, the result is what I call a "Blunetto".shoe3.jpg
Timber is Huon pine its about 400mm long. Decided to lacquer it leaving just the inside part showing as timber..shoe4.jpg The one on the right followed soon after, its made from laminated King William pine. The lamination glue joints did not look right on the inside part so the whole shoe was lacquered black and then the inside bit painted pink. Did a few in different colours and shapes,shoe5.jpg some getting really stretched out...shoe6.jpg this one was approx 600mm long or the "Wobbly Shoes"shoe7.jpg and finally the "Piece De Resistance" The "Flippetto" a cross between a swimming flipper and a stiletto..shoe8.jpg this one is 1 metre long, unknown timber and finished in an automotive lacquer.