new techniques – Jen Powell art

Sketchbook Collage 12/6/25

I have been playing with some stuff I’ve learned recently, or relearned. I really like the transparency that tissue paper provides when you layer it in a collage. I have used it in the past a lot but had not used it in a long time. I was reintroduced to it by the class I referenced in my last post, and also by a youtube video I watched recently, showing how to do botanical prints using a gel plate on tissue papers. Those can then be layered in collage. This sketchbook page was fun to make and used tissue paper (and botanical prints I made with my gel plate). I also used water soluble crayons, construction paper, and other collage papers I have made in the past.

Learning new things

I love taking classes through a site called Fibre Arts Take Two, a company out of Australia that has several online classes with teachers all over the world. I’ve taken several of their classes in the last few years. I recently took a class taught by Cordula Kagemann, a collage artist from Germany. I learned several new techniques and had a lot of fun with this class. Here are a few collages I made from this class.