Embroidered Collage

I re-used pieces of my own art for both of these calendar spreads for December.  The first one came from an 8"x10" collage I had been making.  It was actually almost finished, but I thought it would fit in well here.  I trimmed the primary image to fit the calendar page then used the strips that I had cut off to make a pattern on the other page.  I embellished further with colored pencils.

When I saw the picture of the Arc de Triomphe in this month I knew exactly what I wanted to do.  I had never listed for sale the collage I had made on the same theme and had to go dig it out.  The piece fit perfectly on the page.  There was even room for a reddish border.  I added paint and a quote and a little pencil to the photo in the calendar so it would be altered just enough to complement the art on the facing page.

As a side note, these pages look off balance because I scanned them and the entire calendar didn't quite fit on the scanner bed.  The calendar is so large and bulging and distorted now from everyone's work that I couldn't get the pages flat enough to take a good photo when they were on the top of the stack instead of the bottom.