Tag Archives: Eco Collograph

Taking a Walk in Negative Space

Posted on November 29, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

I’m attracted to artworks damaged in the making process. When trying to figure out why, I’ve focused on the word damage. In looking at this on the left – a damaged eco collograph of some elm leaves – it came … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Collage & Assemblage, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Inspiration, Music, Music Theory, Printmaking, Science, spirituality | Tagged Curved Space, Eco Collograph, Expanding Space, Ezekiel, Hesychasm, Negative Space, Noble Silence, Space Ripple, Von Daniken | 12 Comments

Eco Collograph from Red Cabbage

Posted on November 1, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

The health-giving properties of red cabbage are phenomenal. I love it steamed with apple. Great taste, good health. Virtually no calories. Turns blue when provoked. Me, too.

Posted in Art, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Printmaking | Tagged Collographh, Eco Collograph, Eco Printing, Prints from Nature, Red cabbage | 4 Comments

First Art from Beyond The Great Transition: Eco Collographs with Healing Sumac and Turmeric, Light and Emily Dickinson

Posted on October 2, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

Picking up from where I left off before The Great Transition – which has taken all of six months and still living in some chaos – I was very happy to find a few hours to make a batch of … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Artist Sketchbooks, Collage & Assemblage, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Nature Journal, Printmaking, Science | Tagged Aaron Copland, Barbara Bonney, Diotima of Mantinea, Eco Collograph, Emily Dickinson, Ladder of Love, Monoprint, Polychromatic Light, Staghorn Sumac, Turmeric | 2 Comments

Post-Walkabout, I Run into Archimedes and Tangerine Meg in the Pursuit of An Eco Collograph and Its Ghost

Posted on August 10, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

My Internet friend, and artist, Tangerine Meg, has just posted a blog listing different apologetics for Art, mentioning, among other things, the apparent dichotomy between Art and Science. That the dichotomy is just that, an apparency; that Art and Science … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Inspiration, Printmaking | Tagged Archimedes Principle, Art and Science, Eco Collograph | 5 Comments

Seeds Fallen from an Elm

Posted on July 23, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

“Everything changes and nothing remains still … you cannot step twice into the same stream.” Heraclitus I walk through a park almost daily. It is never the same park twice. Yesterday I passed beneath an elm, my feet ankle deep in … Continue reading →

Posted in Art | Tagged Blackberry Jam, Blackberry Vinegar, Blackberrying, Eco Collograph, Elm, Elm Tree Seeds, Heraclitus | 4 Comments

Purple Sage, Accolade

Posted on July 21, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

Purple Sage (Eco Collograph) “Practicing creativity in every way we can think of feels like the most powerful response to current events that we can make. Adding to the beauty of the world and allowing our work to reflect the … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Collage & Assemblage, Creativity, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Inspiration, Nature Journal, Printmaking | Tagged Accolade, Art Quote, Collograph, Eco Collograph, encouraging quote, Purple Sage, Quote | Leave a comment

Conjuror’s Trick: Blueberry Eco Collograph: Acid v Alkaline

Posted on July 19, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

“Why there hasn’t been time for the bushes to grow. That’s always the way with the blueberries, though: There may not have been the ghost of a sign Of them anywhere under the shade of the pine, But get the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Collage & Assemblage, Creativity, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Nature Journal, Printmaking | Tagged Art, Blueberries, creativity, Eco Collograph, Robert Frost | 2 Comments

Eco Collography – A New Development – St John’s Wort

Posted on July 18, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

Looking like fossilised remains of some ancient creature, this is an eco collograph of St John’s Wort, including stems, leaves and luscious red berries. I made a couple of little chemical changes to the process to ‘see what would happen’. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Collage & Assemblage, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Folklore & Mythology, Nature Journal, Printmaking | Tagged Eco Collograph, Herbiarum Vocabularum, Herbiary, Hypericum, Revd Hilderic Friend, St John the Baptist, St John's Wort | Leave a comment

Eco Collograph: Human Days and a Scene in Paradise

Posted on July 12, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

“I have walked once in summer by the side of a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn. The mint and white hawthorn have with them a vivid, rare delicious perfume. It makes you want to grovel on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Collage & Assemblage, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Inspiration, Nature Journal, Printmaking | Tagged Bergamot Mint, Cecil Collins, Collograph, Eco Collograph, Human Days, Mary MacLane, Scene in Paradise | 2 Comments

Eco Collographs: Shaking the Tree

Posted on July 11, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? Logan Pearsall Smith The image above is another of my experiments with eco collographs on 300gsm watercolour paper. Look like … Continue reading →