Upcycled

"Above the hills, along the blue, Round the bright air with footing true, To please the child, to paint the rose, The gardener of the World, he goes." --Robert Louis Stevenson, last stanza of "Summer Sun," in A Child's Garden of Verses I upcycled this tan purse with paint, sharpies, modpodge, inks, and paper collage. Image is from the George Eastman House uploads to Flickr Commons (see below). Custom order.

Red Clarita Accessories handbag, upcycled with gesso, paint, sharpies, ink, and paper collage.

Thrifted black purse, upcycled with gesso, paint, paper collage, sharpies, ink, modpodge, and krylon. Image is from the Library of Congress uploads in Flickr Commons, showing four of the Suffrage Hikers (1913): Elisabeth Freeman, Vera Wentworth, Elsie McKenzie, and Ida Craft. (see below) SOLD 1/10.

Thrifted black purse, upcycled with gesso, paint, paper collage, sharpies, ink, modpodge, and krylon. Image is from the Library of Congress uploads in Flickr Commons, showing four of the Suffrage Hikers (1913): Elisabeth Freeman, Vera Wentworth, Elsie McKenzie, and Ida Craft. (see below) SOLD 1/10.

Thrifted black purse, upcycled with gesso, paint, paper collage, sharpies, ink, modpodge, and krylon. Image is from the Library of Congress uploads in Flickr Commons, showing four of the Suffrage Hikers (1913): Elisabeth Freeman, Vera Wentworth, Elsie McKenzie, and Ida Craft. (see below) SOLD 1/10.

A thrifted brown purse, upcycled with gesso, acrylic paint, sharpies, walnut ink, paper collage, modpodge, and krylon. Image is from Australia, 1932, and is in the Powerhouse Museum's uploads to Flickr Commons (see below).

A brown purse provided by customer, upcycled with gesso, acrylic paint, sharpies, walnut ink, gel-transfer collage, modpodge, and krylon. Image is from Australia, and is in the Powerhouse Museum's uploads to Flickr Commons (see below).

Thrifted Tods black bag, upcycled with gesso, acrylics, modpodge, sharpies,a nd krylon. SOLD 2/10.

Thrifted Tods black bag, upcycled with gesso, acrylics, modpodge, sharpies,and krylon. SOLD 2/10.

Thrifted brown faux-leather purse upcycled with gesso, paint, ink, sharpies, modpodge and krylon. SOLD 11/09.

Thrifted brown faux-leather purse upcycled with gesso, paint, ink, sharpies, modpodge and krylon. SOLD 11/09.

Upcycled black purse with gesso, acrylic paint, modpodge, and sharpies. White Heron is based on an image from the Powerhouse Museum uploads at Flickr Commons (see below). SOLD, 9/09.

Upcycled black purse with gesso, acrylic paint, modpodge, and sharpies. White Heron is based on an image from the Powerhouse Museum uploads at Flickr Commons (see below). SOLD, 9/09.

Upcycled black purse with gesso, acrylic paint, modpodge, and sharpies. White Herons are based on an image from the Powerhouse Museum uploads at Flickr Commons (see below). SOLD, 9/09.

Thrifted black purse upcycled with paint, collage, sharpies, ink, modpodge and krylon. Image of Australian dancer "Saharet" (born Clarissa Campbell) is from the Library of Congress uploads to Flickr Commons (see below).

Thrifted black purse upcycled with paint, collage, sharpies, ink, modpodge and krylon. Quote is "I have no doubt that women will have votes before long... it is simply a matter of sense and consistency," from an 1885 letter by British writer Elizabeth Eastlake.

Thrifted black purse upcycled with paint, collage, sharpies, ink, modpodge and krylon. Image of British writer and art critic Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1809-1893) is from the National Galleries of Scotland uploads to Flickr Commons (see below).

Thrifted black purse upcycled with paint, collage, sharpies, ink, modpodge and krylon.