Art Journal Round Robin #1

I won't be able to participate in this first round robin:(

But I do have a question...how many pages should my journal have? And if I have to send international how do I track the package when it's sent from the United States? I've had packages go missing because I can't attach a delivery confirmation to international mail packages.

This sounds like so much fun. Hopefully next round I can play.

The 10 x 8" I can get in England (Seawhite) has 70 pages (140 sides). The 10 x 10" has 85 (190 sides). I prefer these as the pages are sized to take wet media. It depends what you can get in your country and what you're comfortable working with. As the for the postage, in the UK, Royal Mail does not do any tracking for parcels going outside of the country. The only option is to use something lke UPS, but this is costly and you need an account with them and you need to be in to receive the package.

When you receive somebody's journal how many pages are you supposed to add? Just to be clear.

We are saying a minimum of 4 double page spreads, but you can do more if you want, it depends on the time you have available (and inspiration!). 4 would give you 1.5 weeks for each spread, and would show your work/style in the book. However there would be space to do more, as much as 12 spreads in a larger sketchbook. When the book returns to the original owner it would have pages left for the owner to complete the book, maybe just a few, or if everyone had done 4, there would be half the book left and you could send it out again on the next one if you wanted. I don't want to set really strict limits, as a larger committment could put people off joining. I personally get put off swaps where they say, so many pages of poetry, so many painted pages etc cos I have to be in the mood and like my freedom!

Yeah of course, I totally understand that, I wanted to just make sure it was more than you know 1 or 2 because that would kind of defeat the purpose of sending it all around!