DIY Paint your Purse or Pencil Case!

 Blank Canvas Zip Purse

Blank Canvas Pencil Case

During the 9 March 2012 MAAD, we offered DIY painting classes on canvas ($10) as well as designing on fabric purses and pencil cases ($18). I have sewn the above canvas purses and pencil cases to be drawn or painted with fabric markers, crayons or paints. They will be offered at the next MAAD as well. Do come down and create your own masterpiece for yourself or as a gift! Check out the following painting we did on some mini bags.

Painted Bag Examples

* Edited 15 November 2012
I have created a free tutorial for a parenting column in MyPaper 我报, on how to redesign your old T-shirt. This tutorial, however, can be applied to pencil cases, pouches, purses or bags. While, it is not painting, it is colouring with special markers. So, do visit the link at : http://barangshop.blogspot.sg/2012/11/this-weeks-mypaper-article-redesigning.html

Art Workshop at MAAD!

We offered for the first time, on-the-spot DIY Paint Your Own Canvas ($10) or Zip Purse/Pencil Case ($18) for kids & adults at MAAD on Friday, 9 March 2012. Teaching assistants were Treise and Dylan. In fact, I was away, buying dinner for the 3 of us at the nearby Maxwell Hawker Food Centre when the first child approached them to paint on the spot. Dylan called me to confirm the price for the painting session - it was $10 per canvas. By the time I came back to MAAD 10 minutes later, 3 kids were already painting and one had just made payment to Dylan to start. I was probably redundant since my 2 young assistants were managing the 4 kids very well. I already knew Treise can teach but I did not realise Dylan had hidden depths! Hmmm.... both Treise & Dylan received plenty of praises. So, the DIY Painting sessions are going to be a regular offering at MAAD as my 2 young assistants became very excited with their success and told me imperiously that I must get more pre-drawn canvases for the next MAAD! 

More Paintings for sale

Here are more paintings by Treise Loi as well as Dylan Loi and of course my brother-in-law - Deepak Khatri.

Butterfly #1 -SGD 8.00

Size : 20x15cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Treise Loi

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Candles - SGD10.00

Size : 17x26cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Treise Loi

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Fish #2 - SOLD

Size : 18x13.8cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Treise Loi

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Flower #1 - SGD8.00

Size : 18x13.8cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Treise Loi

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Flower #2 - SGD8.00

Size : 20x15cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Treise Loi

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Flowers #1 - SGD10.00

Size : 13.8x18cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Treise Loi

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Patterns #1 - SGD10.00

Size : 23x17.8cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Treise Loi 

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Bouquet #1 - Sold

Size : 13.8x18cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Treise Loi

1st of a series of bouquets.

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Bouquet #10 - SGD8.00

Size : 13.8x18cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Treise Loi

10th in a series of bouquets.

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Bouquet #11 - SGD8.00

Size : 13.8x18cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Treise Loi

11th in a series of bouquets. 

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Bouquet #7 - SGD8.00

Size : 13.8x18cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Treise Loi

7th in a series of bouquets.

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Bouquet #8 - SGD8.00

Size : 13.8x18cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Treise Loi

8th in a series of bouquets.

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Bouquet #9 - SGD8.00

Size : 13.8x18cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Treise Loi

9th in a series of bouquets.

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Flowers in the Field #1 - SGD10.00

Size : 13.8x18cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Treise Loi

1st in a series of Flowers in the Fields 

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Flowers in the Field #2 - SGD10.00

Size : 13.8x18cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Treise Loi

2nd in a series of Flowers in the Fields. 

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Flowers in the Field #3 - SGD10.00

Size : 13.8x18cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Treise Loi

3rd in a series of Flowers in the Fields. 

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Night Bloomers #1 - SGD10.00

Size : 13.8x18cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Treise Loi

1st in a series of Flowers in the Fields in the Night. 

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My Flowers - SGD7.00

Size : 13.8x18cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Dylan Loi 

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My Spaceship's under Attack! - SGD7.00

Size : 13.8x18cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Dylan Loi 

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Ocean Blue - SGD8.00

Size : 13.8x18cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Dylan Loi 

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Trees on the Hilltop - SGD7.00

Size : 13.8x18cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Dylan Loi 

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Buildings and Reflections - SGD35.00

Size : 12" x 9"

Acrylic painting on canvas by Deepak Khatri

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Tree in the Sunset - SGD18.00

Size : 15 x 20cm

Acrylic painting on canvas by Deepak Khatri

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Colours - SGD15.00

Size : 8" x 8"

Acrylic painting on canvas by Deepak Khatri

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Acrylic Paintings by Treise Loi

Treise had her first "showing" at MAAD on 13 Jan 2012. She sold 3 out of 6 acrylic paintings. Needless to say, she's so happy, she was jumping up and down on the spot after selling each painting which she had sold all by herself - introduction & etc. All sale proceeds went to her, of course, for savings and to fund materials for her next lot of paintings. She's already started painting her next lot for Feb's MAAD. Good to see her art lessons have not gone to waste ;) My future Picasso, dyslexia be damned! Be gone, migraine! Please support her! Buy her paintings!

Cherries - Acrylic Painting by Treise Loi

Size : 18x26cm

Photo taken by Treise Loi

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Tiger Fish - Acrylic Painting by Treise Loi

Size : 18x26cm

Photo taken by Treise Loi

* SOLD *

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Butterfly - Riot of Colours - Acrylic Painting by Treise Loi

Size : 18x26cm

Photo taken by Treise Loi

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Bird in the Jungle - Acrylic Painting by Treise Loi

Size : 18x26cm

Photo taken by Treise Loi