Backgrounds

I always have a small art journal on standby when I am making my spreads. I use that to wipe up extra gesso, left over paint on my palette, and also to wipe off stencils and try out rubber stamps. Sometimes I go back and develop such pages into a finished spread but mostly these journals simply remind me of learned techniques and which stencils and stamps I possess. 

The weather outside is very far from attractive so for today I photographed some of these pages and put them together into a collage with the help of Picmonkey.