Category Archives: Painting

Autumn Is Come

Posted on October 18, 2021 by AnnIsikArts

“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.” – Elizabeth Lawrence

Posted in Art, Artist Sketchbooks, Drawing, Painting, Quotes | Tagged Autumn Colours, Coloured Drawing, Drawing, Sumac | Leave a comment

The Last of the Handmade Markmakers – for Now

Posted on October 13, 2021 by AnnIsikArts

Here’s two mark-makers, out of one. It was originally a sponge roller. The sponge had deteriorated a bit. I took it off and replaced it with rubber bands. I cut notches into the sponge and now I’ve a sponge stamp … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Art Notes, Collage & Assemblage, Mixed Media, Monoprinting, Painting, Printmaking | Tagged Collages, Deli Paper for Art, Handmade Brushes, Handmade Markmakers, Monoprinting | Leave a comment

More Home-Made Brushes

Posted on September 25, 2021 by AnnIsikArts

Though comical to look at, I do like the double-ended home-made brush with shuttlecock at one end and paper bag handles at the other. I had this plastic tube in my stash of stuff waiting to become useful. I decided … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Painting | Tagged Home-made Artist's Brush, Mark-Making, Mark-Making Tools | 1 Comment

Tubes and Triangles

Posted on September 23, 2021 by AnnIsikArts

“A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.” ― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space I haven’t had much time for art this week. I was determined yesterday to grab some, were … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Art Notes, Artist Sketchbooks, Drawing, Mixed Media, Painting | Tagged Derwent Inktense Watercolour Pencils, Drawing, Gaston Bachelard, Goodreads, Painting, The Poetics of Space, Watercolour Sketch | Leave a comment

Books and Bookmarks

Posted on September 17, 2021 by AnnIsikArts

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.” Louisa May Alcott 160 Quotes about Books and Reading

Posted in Art, Painting, Quotes | Tagged Acrylic Painting, Acrylic Painting on Paper, Louisa May Alcott, Painting | Leave a comment

An Art Challenge: Day 1

Posted on September 14, 2021 by AnnIsikArts

Limbering up, loosening up much as a dancer or a singer does before a performance, with nothing in mind but a single word. For me this was EXPLORATION. I explored acrylic inks, watercolour inks, graphite pencil, felt tip pens, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Mixed Media, Painting | Tagged Acrylic Inks, Felt Tip Pens, Graphite Pencil, Home-made Artist's Brush, Mixed media, Watercolour inks | Leave a comment

A Return to Painting II

Posted on August 21, 2021 by AnnIsikArts

This is the second in my series of 12″x12″ (c30xc30cms) acrylic painting series ‘L’Isle-Adam’. (Despite the fact it’s labelled ‘L’Isle-Adam IV’!) It isn’t as grainy as this but it has been enormously difficult to photograph and this is the best … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Drawing, Painting | Tagged Abstraction, Acrylic Painting, Cy Twombly, Energy Painting, Mark-Making, Painting on Wood Panels | 2 Comments

A Return to Painting

Posted on July 9, 2021 by AnnIsikArts

The above image marks a surprise return to painting after a good number of years during which I painted only sporadically and without much success. Life and all that. An email arrived earlier this year, out-of-the-blue, inviting me onto a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Blogging, Choral singing, Painting, Singing, Singing Sacred, Writing | Tagged Acrylic Painting, Eco Printing, L'Isle-Adam, Messa Di Gloria, Nettle, Puccini | 1 Comment

Living and Dyeing

Posted on October 27, 2014 by AnnIsikArts

“Walking was an essential component of our work. There was music. There were rich silences. Times of deep listening, experiential drawing and the gathering of “gorgeous nothings”…spontaneous poetry noted while wandering as well as performances of aleatory poetry created by reading together.”

Is this Heaven? This is Australian artist India Flint talking about the first of some masterclasses she held this year in Newburgh, a village on the banks of the River Tay (Scotland). It was a site-specific four-day intensive focussing on “… the deep experience of place through immersion in this very particular tidal riparian landscape.” She explains, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Encaustic Art, Inspiration, Mixed Media, Nature Journal, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Walking, Writing | Tagged Digital Printmaking, digital printmaking, dyeing, encaustic art, fine art printmaking, Gelli Printing, India Flint, Knitting, Monoprint, Monoprints, print making, printing, textile art, Walking as Metaphor, Walking on Purpose | 4 Comments

Walking off a Cliff: Creating when Injured

Posted on July 13, 2014 by AnnIsikArts

I did. Well, I slid part way down the bottom bit and smashed my shoulder, a week ago today. Might need surgery. Fingers crossed. It was all very dramatic. Two ambulances. (Did they think I was in bits that would … Continue reading →