Disney's The Haunted Mansion

By Dan-O Florez

Welcome, foolish mortals, to the Haunted Mansion! I am your host, your ghost host. Kindly step all the way in please and make room for everyone. There's no turning back now.

Our tour begins here in this gallery where you see paintings of some of our guests as they appeared in their corruptible, mortal state.

"Me as Alexander Nitrokoff, Haunted Mansion Stretch Room ghosts, the apartment, Studio City, LA, CA, USA" (source for photo can be found at flickr)

U.K. blogger Cory Doctorow (pictured above) wearing the custom painted Haunted Mansion TOMS I painted for him as part of his Halloween costume. 

 Left foot featuring Disney World's version of the Mansion

 Right foot featuring the viking lady singing and her ghostly companion

A nice shot of both shoes. Thanks for sharing photos of your shoes with your many followers.

Many clients request the wallpaper from the mansion to be incorporated into the shoe design.

On Vans shoes

Or TOMS

Marc Davis Original concept artwork is always a great inspiration for me when painting Disney themed shoes.

All our ghosts have been dying to meet you! This one can hardly contain himself!

The infamous Hatbox Ghost!

Featured on TOMS shoes

Also on Vans slip Ons

Perhaps Madame Leota can establish contact. She has a remarkable head for materializing the disembodied.

When the crypt doors creak and the tombstones quake,
Spooks come out for a swinging wake!
Happy haunts materialize, and begin to vocalize. 
Grim Grinning Ghosts come out to socialize!

Now don't close your eyes and don't try to hide,

For a silly spook may sit by your side.

Shrouded in a daft disguise, they pretend to terrorize.

Grim Grinning Ghosts come out to socialize! 

As the moon climbs high o'er the dead oak tree, 
Spooks arrive for the midnight spree.
Creepy creeps with eerie eyes start to shriek and harmonize.
Grim Grinning Ghosts come out to socialize!

When you hear the knell of a requiem bell, 

weird glows gleam where spirits dwell.

Restless bones etherealize, rise as spooks of every size!

Ah, there you are, and just in time! There's a little matter I forgot to mention. Beware of hitchhiking ghosts! They have selected you to fill our quota, and they'll haunt you until you return! Now I will raise the safety bar, and a ghost will follow you home!

Hurry back! Hurry back! Be sure to bring your death certificate, if you decide to join us. Make final arrangements now! We've been dying to have you!

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

Disney's 1st Full-length Cel Animated feature has become a staple among Disney fans, and has been a popular request from clients who want custom artwork painted on their shoes. 

I've been asked to paint a couple different pairs inspired by both the Disneyland attraction...

... and inspired by the film.

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This pair pictured directly above is currently available for sale ASAP.

It was painted on the wrong size for the client and now I have to sell it to make up for the loss. This message will be taken down once this pair is sold. 

Youth TOMS size 4.5 

$125

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Twilight Zone: Tower of Terror

"You're traveling to another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but also of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose bounderies are that of the imagination. At the sign post up ahead, your next stop, the twilight zone"

Today's painting journey was inspired by one of my favorite Disney attractions Twilight Zone Tower of Terror! 

Check out the quick little clip I threw together to showcase my artwork. I used a clip of the intro video from the Disney attraction and spliced in an audio clip from the original series and added photos of the shoes. Let me know what you think!

This specific pair was inspired by the concept artwork for the Tokyo Disney Sea version of the ride

Here is an actual picture of how the ride looks today.

It looks as though imagineers stayed pretty true to the original concept design

Of course this is different from the original version of the ride at Florida's Disney Hollywood Studios park

This version is personally my favorite because it operates differently than all the others. This original incarnation of the ride features a 4th dimension room that once the elevator reaches the top of the floor it actually moves forward into a spooky scene featuring elements from The twilight zone and an amazing light effect that ends with the freefall that the ride is famous for. 

Here is a shoe that I made inspired by this version of Tower of Terror (the other shoe is Rock'n Roller Coaster but I'll save that for another post!)

Other newer versions of the ride all operate in one single elevator shaft that takes you up to view a long hallway and a ghostly mirror but the elevator stays in the same drop shaft as you go up in. 

Here is a photo of the California Adventure/Disneyland Paris version of the ride as they were built to be identical to one another.

The final result of the shoes are pictured below

I do hope you've enjoyed todays terrifying post and feel free to DROP IN anytime....

Disney's Frozen Custom Painted TOMS

Todays post is my first Youtube video of what will hopefully become many more. It features one of my newest designs inspired by the characters of Disney's Frozen. 

If you watched the video above leave a comment below with what you thought. 

Submarine Voyage/20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Today's adventure takes us on a Submarine Voyage 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea! See what I did there? So this pair was requested as "anything featuring the submarine ride".  My mind immediately went to the vintage Tomorrowland posters featuring classic Disneyland rides. I didn't want to stray to far away from that.  So todays entry will be pretty short on words but will be more about the progress photos.

To compliment the submarine I chose to use this artwork on the other shoe. Again not straying much from the source material.  I did however spread the "20,000 Leages under the sea" wording across both shoes.

  

Once completed, it was time for a photoshoot.  Add some tissue paper and sea shells I had lying around the house and here is what you get.

To finish off the design, I decided to add some small bubbles and starfish/seashells to the backs of the shoes in the same color scheme as the fronts. 

This specific design is not available in my shop but if you would like me to recreate it, you can always  Email a request here.