Sketchbook Doodles Go on Vacation
top of page
News
Search
I'm about to head off on vacation and I am sharing one of the prompts that I created for myself and that I'll be working on while away....
Jennifer Penick
Jan 131 min
2024 Free Scrap Collage Paper Download
I've made free collage papers available in the past. They are wildly colorful original pages of my favorite collage bits grouped together...
1,299 views1 comment
Jennifer Penick
Dec 31, 20232 min
A story, a confession, a gift.
THE STORY Almost 10 years ago, I was contacted by someone who wanted to give me a collection of antique paper. I confess that at first I...
1,251 views15 comments
Jennifer Penick
Nov 27, 20231 min
Thanks for joining my first ever collage challenge
Earlier this fall, I shared a download of a vintage Italian page of leaf illustrations that I bought years ago at the Sunday flea market...
565 views0 comments
Jennifer Penick
Oct 31, 20231 min
Jennifer's Fall Collage Challenge
I've always wanted to launch my own little on-line collage art challenge and I am finally doing it! Consider yourself challenged to use...
882 views0 comments
Jennifer Penick
Sep 18, 20233 min
Collaging in (Altered) Books
During my recent long month away I wanted a collage or mixed media project that was easy to take traveling, that would help keep me...
718 views0 comments
Jennifer Penick
May 7, 20233 min
Art for a Cause: exciting update
This is an update on "Art for a Cause", the amazingly successful call for art that I have organized for the Arts and Humanities Program...
891 views10 comments
Jennifer Penick
Apr 24, 20231 min
FREE "scrap collage paper" download
Happy Spring, friends, Some days I just feel like organizing more than working on actual projects or artworks. I was looking through my...
1,846 views3 comments
Jennifer Penick
Dec 5, 20221 min
Happy New Year: Paper Birds (with templates)
This isn't the first year that I have used "paper birds" as a creative prompt in my classes, but it proved to be so popular this year...
1,356 views4 comments
Jennifer Penick
Sep 13, 20221 min
Summer sale on in my shop
Some of you followed by Index-Card-a-Day (ICAD) project this spring, I made two little works of art each day (they are designed to go...
191 views0 comments
Jennifer Penick
Sep 13, 20221 min
sharing vintage Italian paper
Do you ever have paper so cool that it's hard to use it? I know that images that printed out from an ink jet printer are not as textured...
342 views0 comments
Jennifer Penick
Jun 18, 20224 min
more about making custom (embellished) collage paper
A while back I took I wrote a blog post here about making "custom collage paper" and a while even further back I took a great class...
739 views0 comments
Jennifer Penick
Apr 18, 20222 min
More art made by Creativity Jumpstart class participants
If you have read my previous blog ("news") post about my work with Georgetown Hospital's Arts & Humanities Program (AHP), or if you are...
289 views0 comments
Jennifer Penick
Apr 8, 20222 min
art made by participants in my Creativity Jumpstart classes
If you have read my previous blog ("news") post about my work with Georgetown Hospital's Arts & Humanities Program (AHP), or if you are...
245 views0 comments
Jennifer Penick
Apr 4, 20222 min
being an Artist-in-Residence (also: free classes open for registration)
[buttons here below for more info and class registration] Being an Artist in Residence with Georgetown University Hospital's Arts &...
449 views0 comments
Jennifer Penick
Apr 1, 20222 min
making custom collage paper
A while back I took a great class (Thumbnail Sketching) with @palimpsestparade and she got me hooked on one of my most favorite, most...
783 views0 comments
Jennifer Penick
Mar 21, 20221 min
More collage inspiration from the road
Here's a follow-up to my last post. I had given some examples of how I take inspiration for my paper collage quilts (my current art...
186 views0 comments
Jennifer Penick
Mar 12, 20222 min
Collage inspiration on the road
Here's a bit of insight into how I am working while traveling and how our travels are influencing my work. WORKING ON THE ROAD I have...
218 views0 comments
Jennifer Penick
Feb 24, 20221 min
ROAD TRIP!
We're getting ready to leave on a 10-week road trip and I'm gathering materials and inspiration before we depart. While on the road I'll...
291 views0 comments
Jennifer Penick
Feb 1, 20222 min
Paper Quilts & The 100 Day Project
My new year's resolutions included "watch more movies" (which I've been doing a pretty good job with) and "keep up website news/blog"...
372 views0 comments
bottom of page