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PAPER OWL

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A few weeks ago, my sister sent me a text letting me know that my niece really likes owls right now and that I should make her an owl picture for her birthday at the beginning of April. I agreed, but it took me some time to decide how I wanted to do it. Not keeping a ton of art supplies around the house I also needed to keep my costs down. I decided against painting as, well, I'm not that good at it. My second thought was to use either pastels or oil pastels, but that just seemed messy. So I decided on paper. Then I decided to use patterned paper to make it more interesting. I had to make this up as I went along as I couldn't find any projects similar that people had already done online. I started out by buying a large pack of scrap booking paper. I also bought a few single sheets so that I would have brown and white as there was none in the pack. I forgot to take pictures of the next step, but I took a piece of foam board and cut it to the size I wanted and wrappe