Monday Concertina Sketchbook Collage - June

For June's concertina I got to try out a new material that I received as a gift, piano roll paper. I love the color and  smoothness of the paper but it's quite fragile from age and all the punched out lines. 

I liked having the negative space of the lines and dots to play with. In some areas, I let the white of the paper below show, in others I placed paper underneath to show through, and also used the cut-out lines as slots to weave through. Going for a beachy color scheme, I used additional tans, a variety of painted turquoise papers and coordinating embroidery thread.

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​Week 1

​Week 2 - adding sheet music to enhance the piano roll paper.

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​Week 3

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​Week 4 - always love working with cheesecloth.

​The finished 4 panels

These colors took me back to a time when I saw turquoise ocean water for the first time. It was a very long time ago on a trip to New Zealand. Such wonderful memories and something I will never forget - the water or the trip.

​Before putting away the box of papers I've been pulling from all month I made several more collages in my regular sketchbook. I think I could keep going and fill an entire sketchbook with these colors but July's colors are waiting in the wings.

​You can read more about these monthly concertina sketchbooks and how they got started here.