Handmade at the Lake, a gift-making series
Design Your Own Project Bag
Paint a bag as unique as you are.
Friday, November 13, 2026 · 5:30 to 8:30 PM
Spend a cozy Friday evening at Box of Paints Studio on Bass Lake designing and painting your own canvas project bag.
Using acrylic paint, colour, pattern and your imagination, you will transform a quality canvas bag into a one-of-a-kind piece of functional art.
Perfect for knitters, artists, makers, travellers, or anyone who loves beautiful and useful things. Make it for someone you love or keep it for yourself. No painting experience is necessary.
$107.35 including HST
Small group. Secure payment through the studio shop.
One Friday evening • Nov. 13 • 5:30–8:30 PM • Bass Lake
Make Something That's Completely Yours
Your project bag becomes your canvas.
Jennifer will introduce simple approaches to colour, composition, pattern and mark-making before helping you develop your own design.
Participants can work abstractly, create patterns, explore botanical or nature-inspired imagery, or develop something completely personal.
The goal is not for everyone to make the same bag. Every finished piece should look different.
Your evening
Three hours at the studio
1
5:30 PM
Arrive and settle in
Come in from the lake road, choose your seat, and look through colour, pattern and imagery to spark ideas while everyone gathers.
2
6:00 PM
Colour, pattern and mark-making
A relaxed demonstration on mixing acrylics for fabric, building pattern, layering shapes and keeping your marks lively.
3
6:30 PM
Design and paint your bag
Sketch your idea and begin painting, with Jennifer moving between six participants offering individual guidance the whole way through.
4
8:30 PM
Take it home
Final details, a look at everyone's work, and you leave with a finished hand-painted project bag that is entirely your own.
From Painting to Project Bag
The sample bag for this workshop was inspired by one of Jennifer's original paintings, demonstrating how colour, shape, pattern and imagery can move from a painting onto an everyday object.
You do not need to reproduce Jennifer's design. It is simply one example of what is possible.
Bring your own ideas, work from inspiration provided in the studio, or simply begin with colour and see where it takes you.
You Don't Need to Be an Artist
This workshop is perfect for knitters who want a beautiful project bag, artists and makers, friends looking for a creative Friday night together, people who think they are not artistic, anyone looking to make a meaningful handmade gift, and anyone who simply wants to make something wonderful for themselves.
Make it as a gift. Keep it for yourself. We won't judge.
A Creative Friday Night at the Lake
Trade your usual Friday night for paint, colour and a few hours of making.
Box of Paints Studio is a small artist's studio on Bass Lake in Oro-Medonte. With only six participants, there is plenty of room to experiment, ask questions and receive individual guidance while you work.
Come on your own or bring a friend.
Handmade at the Lake
Make something worth giving.
Design Your Own Project Bag is part of Handmade at the Lake, a seasonal series of creative workshops at Box of Paints Studio celebrating handmade objects, thoughtful gifts and the pleasure of making something yourself.
Throughout the series, participants will have opportunities to transform beautiful materials and everyday objects into personal works of art. Upcoming workshops will include experiences such as hand-painted silk scarves and other artist-led gift-making projects.
Box of Paints Studio on Bass Lake
Box of Paints Studio, Bass Lake, Oro-Medonte, Ontario.
This is a small, relaxed workshop held in Jennifer's private artist's studio overlooking Bass Lake. Spaces are intentionally limited to six participants so the evening stays personal and everyone receives individual instruction.
Exact arrival directions and parking information are sent to registered participants before the workshop.
Your workshop includes
Everything is waiting for you
- Quality canvas project bag
- Acrylic paints suitable for the project
- Brushes and painting tools
- Design guidance and inspiration
- Three hours of artist-led studio instruction
- Use of the Box of Paints Studio
- Your completed hand-painted project bag to take home
Just bring yourself and your ideas. Everything else will be waiting for you.
Your instructor
Your instructor, Jennifer Claveau
Jennifer Claveau is a Canadian painter working by Bass Lake in Oro-Medonte, known for colourful, expressive work drawn from the lakes, wetlands and wildlife around her.
She teaches the way she paints: encouraging, playful and focused on helping each person find their own marks rather than copying hers.
Course details
- Date
- Friday, November 13, 2026
- Time
- 5:30 to 8:30 PM, 3-hour artist-led workshop
- Location
- Box of Paints Studio, Bass Lake, Oro-Medonte, Ontario
- Class size
- Maximum 6 participants
- Level
- Beginner friendly, no experience necessary
- Materials
- All materials included, including your canvas project bag
- Take home
- Your finished hand-painted project bag
Course fee
$95 + HST
$107.35 including HST
Spaces are limited to six participants.
Your Blank Bag Is Waiting.
Join us Friday evening at the lake for three hours of painting, experimenting and making something completely your own. Friday, November 13, 2026, 5:30 to 8:30 PM. Maximum 6 participants. All materials included.
$107.35 including HST
Small group. Secure payment through the studio shop.
Questions? Email jen@boxofpaints.ca
Your Blank Bag Is Waiting.
Three hours of paint, colour and good company at an artist's studio on Bass Lake.
Friday, November 13, 20265:30 to 8:30 PMMaximum 6 participantsAll materials included
$95 + HST
$107.35 including HST
Small group. Secure payment through the studio shop.