messy bags part one

I am lucky enough to live near a weekly farmer's market that creates a lot of foot traffic during the spring and summer. I certainly don't make enough to support myself doing the weekly sales but I can definitely make some extra spending money. Last summer I sold almost all of my inventory so I have had to spend the last few weeks making new items to sell.

I have always had small pouches or changes purses made up to sell. I remade a bunch of my old pattern last week. This week I wanted to make something a little different. I have been taking online classes from Alisa Burke for about a year and love her style. I decided to create a big piece of painted canvas to cut up and sew into different sized pouches.

I used a piece of canvas drop cloth (from the hard ware store) and slowly built up layers of drizzles, drips, splats, doodles, printing and writing. I used acrylic paint, ink and sharpies.

I have a variety of sizes cut up and ready to sew.

abstracts

I'm back. Life has been busy. I've managed to avoid getting sick since June but I caught the flu and I've been down and out for a week. I'm finally getting back to myself and more importantly back into the studio. I did these four abstracts today. They were an easy and quick way to get something, anything down on a surface. They also gave me the opportunity to experiment with different colour combinations that I wouldn't normally use.