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Hand Painting Tap Shoes

Information about the art of hand painting tap shoes.

Hand Painted Tap Shoes

Linda Osborne's Hand-Painted Tap Shoe Service
Linda Young Osborne, mother of professional tap dancer Nicholas Van Young, offers a custom, hand painted tap shoe service. You supply the tap shoes and select the colors and design and she does the rest.

Tap Shoes Hand Painted by Noa Mashiach Barankin'
Massachusetts-based professional tap dancer, choreographer, and tap dancing instructor Noa Mashiach Barankin buys a new pair of black tap shoes every year so she can paint them by hand. This online photo gallery features all of the tap shoes she has customized so far.

About Painting Tap Shoes

Paint Suitable for Painting Tap Shoes
Types and brands of paint recommended by tap dancers for painting leather tap shoes. These companies also sell products for preparing leather shoes to be painted and products for providing the painted shoes with a durable finish.

How to Paint Leather Shoes
This article by Roger Kimpton provide detailed instructions for hand painting all types of leather shoes. He includes a list of the items needed to do the job, how to prepare your shoes for painting, tips for the actual shoe painting process, products for finishing and protecting the paint, and tips for painting shoes using multiple colors of paint. Klimpton's article is published on the Manhattan Wardrobe Supplies Web Site.

Video of Painting Tap Shoes

This YouTube Video by "Annalisa the Nerdy Mermaid" features instructions for hand painting tap shoes. The instructions begin about 1 minute and 50 seconds into the video and the list of things you will need to do the job begin about 3 minutes and 30 seconds into the video.



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