Evita Shoes--Ricky Martin

This past spring, I worked on Evita as the preproduction shoe painter.  The job started out as just distressing some shoes, and I was then given further responsibility and wound up painting almost all the shoes.  (I would say all, but I'm sure there was a pair or two that I didn't touch.)

These are Ricky Martin's boots.  They were a flat ugly leather.   Christopher Oram, the costume designer, wanted them to look "real" and have that "sexy look that broken in leather gets" and add some warmth to it.  I added some reddish paint and rubbed it out, so it was a stain.  I then stippled in some black shoe polish and polished them.  I then polished them w/ a neutral polish.  Christopher was very pleased and I'm told that Mr Martin said "My shoes got love".