07 Sep 2017

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Artist Uses Jordan 1s To Paint MJ's Portrait

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Talk about going hard in the paint, some crazy blogger over on the ‘Gram has swapped out his bristled brush in favour of an . Generally we don’t condone the wanton destruction of a perfectly good pair of shoes, but in this case we’re going to let it slide. Using the shoe’s various contours to produce gradients and textures, this free-thinking artist has realised the likeness of MJ from the very shoe he created – a nice little circle of creativity. It’s always refreshing when someone steps outside of the norm on a quest for expression, so we’re giving this one full points for originality.

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Head over to GC11’s Instagram to check out the video of the piece being painted.

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07 Sep 2017

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