Je suis Charlie

Freedom of Speech  

I Pad drawing Procreate App.  1/2015

"Things hidden in my head" Copyright 20135 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.

Cryptic series

Hidden in the Garden I Pad drawing 2014

"Things hidden in my head" Copyright 2015 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.

Outsider art

Cryptic series Electric Landscape. I pad drawing 2015

As an art instructor and artist I have received extensive training in the arts and educational theory.  In addition, I have received a modicum of success as a regional artist.  As a result, my art cannot be classified as raw art, untrained or outsider art.  Outsider art has been a powerful influence on my personal imagery.  The immediate primal urge to create something with your hands and wield any material to your desire is evident in the untrained art world. These artists do not consider audience interpretation or gallery showrooms. The quirky objects they create represent the familiar through distorted multicolored lenses. Is it art? Is it craft? Whatever it is, it is entrancing and has inspired me and many “trained” artists for generations. 

"Things hidden in my head" Copyright 2015 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.

Visionary art

Cryptic series Organic Formation. I Pad drawing 2015

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Frank Lloyd Wright

"Things hidden in my head" Copyright 2015 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.

Visionary art

Pity the Planet

“Pity the planet, all joy gone
from this sweet volcanic cone;
peace to our children when they fall
in small war on the heel of small
war--until the end of time
to police the earth, a ghost
orbiting forever lost
in our monotonous sublime” 
― Robert Lowell, Near the Ocean: Poems

"Things hidden in my head" Copyright 2015 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.

Visionary art.

Cryptic series Neutrinos I Pad drawing 2014

"Things hidden in my head" Copyright 2013 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.

Visionary art

Cryptic series. Face of Chaos

I Pad drawing. 2014

"Things hidden in my head" Copyright 2013 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.

Visionary art

The discovery of individuality

"Things hidden in my head" Copyright 2013 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.

Visionary art

Cryptic series. Natures Hand. 2014. IPad drawing.

"Things hidden in my head" Copyright 2013 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.

Isom's theory of creative absorption

I am a basically a collage of my ancestor’s DNA, mixed with hundreds of thousands of words, images and ideas that my brain has absorbed and then releases them in the process of creating art.

"Things hidden in my head" Copyright 2013 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.

Visionary art

Cryptic series five. Manipulation. I Pad drawing 12/2014

"Things hidden in my head" Copyright 2013 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.