Say Goodbye Art Journal Spread – MTW Main Challenge July 2020

I always planned to do black and white/greyscale for my DT project but it wasn’t until I started sketching out sad women holding black cats that I started to get an idea of where I was heading with this one.  So it was looking like it was going to be a bit of a sad art journal page, until I started thinking about GOODBYE and then it hit me!  Of course I should totally do a page inspired by one of my all time favourite songs, and guess what, there’s even a black cat in the video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pp6hniAKHw

So I decided to combine a few different elements to make my spread inspired by this iconic song.  I have the song lyrics, some images I printed from video stills and some of my Chinese brush painting papers that I’ve been working on so it was fun to finally use them in a project.

There’s no step-by-step for this one as I was totally absorbed and it was never part of the plan this time around, so here we are with the finished spread.  Given the name of the band – Hunters and Collectors – and all my background papers, I think it has quite a tribal look to it, like maybe those original Hunters and Collectors were painting in caves!

As always, you can enter any new project except ATCs, cards, postcards or tags (save those for the Mini Challenge!)  and there are eight prizes up for grabs!  Visit the blog for more details of prizes and sponsors and some amazing inspiration from the Design Team.