Category Archives: Creativity

Work in Progress: Painting Exercise Using a Limited Palette

Posted on April 5, 2022 by AnnIsikArts

All images arising at the moment result from an art programme I’m undertaking. Last week’s course module dealt with balancing colour values using a palette limited to black, white, dark cadmium red and yellow ochre. This is my second year … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Creativity, Monoprinting, Painting, Printmaking | Tagged Acrylic Painting, Art2Life, Limited Palette, Monoprinting, Painting | Leave a comment

Bloganuary 27: Thin Places

Posted on January 27, 2022 by AnnIsikArts

“Nothing can be done without solitude. I’ve created my own solitude which nobody suspects.” Pablo Picasso. (AZ Quotes) I am sickened [it read] by the spectacle of your obstinately closed door. It indicates that a new aristocracy has been created, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Creativity, Inspiration, Quotes | Tagged #bloganuary, Ait Caol, Caol Ait, Carlton Lake, Christian Science Monitor, Demoiselles d'Avignon, Picasso, Poetic Mapping, The Atlantic Magazine, Thin Place | Leave a comment

On Collage and the Loss of Wonder

Posted on January 17, 2022 by AnnIsikArts

“When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not emerge, do not leave: they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.” … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Christian writing, Collage & Assemblage, Creativity, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Mixed Media, Monoprinting, Painting, Quotes, spirituality | Tagged Adam, Collage & Assemblage, Eco Print, Genesis, Monoprints, The Fall of Man | 2 Comments

Caol Áit – A Thin Place

Posted on December 6, 2021 by AnnIsikArts

I’d not heard of thin places until just a couple of weeks ago, from Wheel of Seasons. It seems I’m one of the very few who are not familiar with the expression. And yet, it is such an apt description … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Creativity, Painting | Tagged Bachelard, Cairns, Caol Ait, Celtic Spirituality, Dolmen, Hermit, Poetic Mapping, Rilke, Thin Places | 6 Comments

Even More Home-Made Paintbrushes

Posted on October 3, 2021 by AnnIsikArts

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them as an artist.” Pablo Picasso

Posted in Art, Art Notes, Creativity, Drawing, Printmaking | Tagged Found Object Stamp-Making, Home-made Paintbrush, Mark-Making, Mark-Making Tools, Stamp-making | Leave a comment

Tannin and Tone and Chrome

Posted on June 27, 2020 by AnnIsikArts

I’ve just performed at the first virtual concert of the Self-Isolation Choir Summer School. It was a week learning and rehearsing – under the guidance of musical director Ben England – a selection of works from the repertoire of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Choral singing, Creativity, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Monoprinting, Music, Printmaking, Singing, Singing Sacred | Tagged Ben England, Chrome Music Lab, Eco Printing, John Rutter, Kathy Hays, Patrick Hawes, Self-Isolation Choir | 6 Comments

Still Taking the Anti-Dote (to the Poison of Chaos) And an Art Note

Posted on February 17, 2020 by AnnIsikArts

When all is done and dusted (pardon the pun) I’ll blog about what Jordan Peterson’s Clean up Your Room edict has revealed and changed. (Clean up Your Room comes from Dr Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life: An Anti-Dote to Chaos). … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Art Notes, Creativity, Inspiration, Music, Music Composition, Music Theory, Research, Walking | Tagged Anti-Dote to Chaos, Art Composition and Music Composition, Art Notes, Art Theory, John Cage, Jordan B Peterson, music theory | 7 Comments

Tricks of Light I

Posted on January 3, 2020 by AnnIsikArts

2019 was not a year for blogging. I didn’t plan it that way. But from late spring onwards, what plans I had for the year were snatched away and I was flying by the seat of my pants. 2020 is … Continue reading →

Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Poetry, Walking, Writing | Tagged 12 Rules for Life, Clean Up Your Room, Jordan B Peterson, Nature Poetry, New Year's Resolution | Leave a comment

Liminal Space, the Prepared Piano and Indeterminacy – a Quick Note to Myself and Anybody Reading

Posted on October 5, 2019 by AnnIsikArts

The subject of this blog was inspired in part by the Liminal States & Thresholds for Change series of artworks by Turtle Moon Impressions blogger Janis Doucette. Liminal space is that threshold space which is between one state of being and … Continue reading →