Watercolor Collage

We managed to fit an art project into the schedule today.  I was pretty excited - I've wanted to do this one for a while now.

You start out by painting a random watercolor design.  Cody decided to jazz his up a little by adding in some pencil markings which he claims are letters in his name, because "every good artist puts his name somewhere in his painting".

 Dylan mixed a few colors together there in the center and wound up seeing a toucan.  Do you see it?  I sorta could at first but can't now.

I almost had a hard time painting randomly.  Is there really such thing as truly random??

Once our paintings dried it was time to draw our grid lines on the back.  We choose to make our squares  1 1/2". 

Once all the lines are drawn it's time to cut, cut, cut.

 Katie's pile of pretty colored squares.

Cody's pile was so much more enthralling what with all that orange grabbing your eye for attention.

Our ever present companion.

Now that all the squares are cut it's time to position them on another piece of paper.  The object is not to put your painting back together like a jigsaw puzzle but to randomly place your pieces creating a totally new design.

My partially constructed design - I had to wait on the glue.

Katie gives her design 2 thumbs up.

Cody and all his eye-catching orange.

Dylan's mystical hidden toucan.

Mine. This was such a fun and easy project.  An especially good project for perfectionist children, since there are no mistakes.