Although the theme, activities, and main artwork or photos for the Kids Korner section of 3ABN World magazine are supplied to me each month, it is my job to create a unified look for the pages. One of the aspects of that is to create the background graphic, which I usually (but not always) try to create from scratch. Right now I am working on the August issue, and for this issue I decided to do something original.
Because the story and activity were related to ducks, I decided to go with a pond theme. So I created this simple graphic in Illustrator: