{canvas tote art}

These are a few of the tote bags I've made/started recently, inspired by a sale on plain canvas tote bags at my local art supply store. I've wanted to play around with canvas totes for so long now, but whenever I found them they would cost more than I could conceive of a plain bag like that ever being worth. Thank you, DeSerres, for making them cheaper.

First up, one of my dearest friends had a birthday somewhat recently, but alas was moving the next day...so this became a belated gift. I had been inspired recently by an image that I saw of a girl who had lost her umbrella to a gust of wind so I played around with that. I also added her monogram to the top to make it a little more hers.

...details of the image...

...and of the monogram...

Next up is one that I just put up for sale on Etsy. I have been dreaming of old skeleton keys in general (and particularly at the end of a necklace) for a while now, so when I saw a photo of cloth using a skeleton key print I felt I needed to find other formats for these keys, too.

...I wish I could have the real version of each of these keys...

Lastly, a while back everyone started raving about the Alabama Style Studio and the interesting techniques emphasized in their work. I wasn't quite ready to tackle a project in their style at the time, but I suddenly got the urge to try it out. So I popped over to their website and saw a pic of a great stencil...only my printer wasn't working... so I eyeballed drawing it onto knit material from an unused PuSh festival shirt.

I haven't made much progress, and certainly less that has been documented. I think it will be a slow project that I pick up for short bursts when I need a break from something else.