Make your own Concertina Book
Sun, Oct 19
|Art & Soul - Sheraton PDX Airport Hotel
Have you been wanting to create your own book? I'll show you a fun and easy way to make a concertina book, and we'll design our covers as well.
Time & Location
Oct 19, 2025, 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Art & Soul - Sheraton PDX Airport Hotel, 8235 NE Airport Way, Portland Oregon
About the event
This workshop will be held at : Art & Soul - Sheraton PDX Airport Hotel
Address: 8235 NE Airport Way, Portland Oregon
A concertina (aka accordion) book is one of the easiest types of books you can create on your own! I love this format because it functions like a traditional book, allowing you to turn the pages. Additionally, you can unfold it completely to display all the pages simultaneously.
Concertina Books are perfect for using as art journals, sketchbooks, junk journals, travel journals, and photo albums. During the morning session, we will concentrate on designing the cover for our Concertina Book. I will demonstrate some fun creative mixed-media methods, using layers of collage, acrylic paint, and various other techniques. In the afternoon, we'll create our concertina (accordion) folded books. This type of fold enables the sketchbook to unfold into a single sheet of paper that is 8 feet long!…