I'm joining in de Round Robin art journal and this is my first page.

Next year the Craftorij is organizing a Round Robin art journal. That means I make the first page in my own journal and then send it to the next person on the list who will add a second spread and send it to the third person and so on. Somewhere in September I will (hopefully) receive my art journal back, filled with lots of inspiration from other people. Meanwhile I will receive art journals from all the others on the list and make a spread in their journals. I just love the idea!!

Now the technique I used for the background is one I had seen on a video by Andy Skinner on You Tube. It's really quite easy. I glued a colourful background page down and sealed it with 2 layers of acrylic varnish. Then I used some modeling paste and a stencil to make my owls. After drying I painted the entire background with black acrylic paint. While that was stil wet I splattered drops of acrylic retarder on the background which prevents the paint underneath those drops from drying. When the reast of your black paint is dry, you simply take a piece of kitchen roll and wipe away the retarder which reveals the colours underneath. How cool is that?!

I used a black permenent marker to colour the modeling paste extra black in order to make them stand out against the black background. I then scanned the Internet for 'owl' quotes and found two I liked. Using my white Sharpie I wrote them down on the left page around the edge of the page and on the right at the bottom of the page. I then used the marker to make white paintsplatters.

Hope you like my spread. I wish you all Merry Christmas!!!
Challenges:

http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.nl/2013/12/challenge-3.html
http://bunnyzoescrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/our-last-challenge-of-2013-wings.html
http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/all-crafts-challenge-decemberjanuary.html
http://hobbycutzchallenges.blogspot.nl/2013/12/merry-christmas-challenge-30-anything.html
http://www.creativeinspirationspaint.blogspot.nl/2013/12/inspired-by-anything-goes-week-2.html
http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/challenge-36-anything-goes.html
http://craftcreatoins.blogspot.nl/p/new.html
http://thatcraftplaceblog.blogspot.nl/2013/12/the-last-challenge-for-2013-so-we.html