Joshua (Airbrush Toronto) has the experience, the tools and the skills to customize footwear for individuals, corporations and media productions. Footwear can be painted to be ready by a particular date, or live on location for events. Whether it's at a bar mitzvah live painting gift shoes for the kids, or a corporate shoes giveaway to staff, Joshua can paint the fast airbrushy or ink marker styles which does not require so much drying time, preparation and attention.

Customizing footwear with specific images and lettering and designs takes experience, time, special paints/inks and honed techniques to produce a clean and attractive pair of shoes that will be durable.

Joshua currently offers Airbrushing, brush painting and ink marker mediums.
Examples:

• Image #1 was a commission from MTV Canada, for graffitti style airbrushed shoes which required preparation/masking, custom stencils and a gloss finish. (Client provides the footwear)
• Image #2 was also a commission from MTV Canada, for graffitti style ink marker art which required preparation/masking and original freehand artistry. (Client provides the footwear)
• Image #3 was a comission from Converse Shoes Canada for original airbrushed shoes which required preparation/masking. (Client provides the footwear)
• Image #4 was live airbrushed shoes as giveaways for an event. (Client provides the footwear)
• Image #5 was ink markering names and personalizing shoes for event goers. The shoes were giveaways to guests (Client provides the footwear)

Painting shoes, boots and other footwear with specific imagery and designs takes time and experience because ...

1. Firstly, the footwear (client provided) often needs to be cleaned, wiped down with specific degreasers, or maybe lightly scuffed to give the paint something to soak into and bond.
2. Then it usually has to be masked off carefully in order to protect areas from being painted. The preparation phase usually takes at least one hour.
   Peparation cost:CAD$75.00 per hour
   
3. After the shoes have been prepared, the artwork has to be sized up and marked out onto the shoes, assuming that the art is ready. Some shoe materials like leather and suade, require special primers, paints and finishes, which likely have to be specially purchased and shipped to me, which is an added cost to you paid up front, with a 15% markup.
4. If the artwork is not ready, then it has to be prepared/drawn; stencils cut, if required.
   Art and stencil cost:CAD $75.00 per hour
5. Once the art / stencils are ready, painting this footwear can take at least one hour to a few full days depending on the final result required, HD movie quality for example.
   Painting cost: CAD$75.00 per hour

In short, just preparing footwear for the painting will be CAD$150.
The painting and finishing/drying the shoes will be another CAD$150, at the bare minimum.
Total: CAD$300 approx.
50% non refundable deposit required.
Maximum 2 reasonable design changes.
Client provides footwear.

These are approximations.