Livia

The two younger kids kind of missed the “point” of the prompt, but that’s okay.  They still had fun. 🙂   Livia is 2.  She mostly practiced gluing.  (She tried to cut, but had a bit of trouble with the scissors and ended up tearing instead.)  Here’s her page:

Sophia

Sophia (5) also missed the point of creating a “background” but, again, had a good time.  (She got to practice her cutting and gluing, too!)

Ariel

Ariel is 10.  She understood the purpose of the prompt and had a good time finding several ways to interpret it.  After her first page of stripes, she did her remaining pages more as “chunks.”

Mama

Obviously, I knew the point of the post.  My first page was in blues.  I had extra paper, but not enough to do a whole second page so instead I “anchored” the second page of a 2-page spread by making a vertical stripe at its outer edge.

I did a couple more that weren’t stripes – just blocks of color.  There’s this orange one:

And this pink one, which I’ll show you some progress on.

First, I just glued down chunks of pink.  As you can see, there are actual pictures represented here, although I tried to tear off any parts that weren’t primarily pink.  I had some gaps, so I colored them in with pink colored pencil, just so I didn’t have big chunks of white showing through.  At this point, it looks pretty…well, not art.  It just looks like chunks of a magazine all glued down.  But watch what can happen when you just start adding to it.

My next step was to outline the big chunks of pink in black permanent marker.

Still pretty boring, right?  But keep watching.  Then I used a finer black marker/pen to doodle patterns in the gaps in between (the places I’d colored pink).

It’s looking a lot more like a journal page now.  (Sorry for the bad lighting on this last one.)

My plan is to write in each of these pink segments, again with the black permanent marker.  I haven’t had the “right” subject matter for that yet, though.