Richard A. Kirk | Visual Artist | Author
"there is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion" Sir Frances Bacon, Of Beauty, Essays" 1625
One might be forgiven for thinking this piece a surrealist response to Aubrey Beardsley's illustration, The Examination of the Herald from Lysistrata, but it is in fact a meditation on vision (see previous posts). I hope you have enjoyed watching this process. This work is available for purchase. Please message me with any questions. Richard... Continue Reading →
Rendered the first figure on this piece.
The past week was spent working on the background of this piece. It was rendered in ink using a fine brush to make cross-hatch marks, layering for the dark area. I'll start the figures tomorrow. Detail of crosshatching
This progress shot represents several hours of cross hatching using very fine brushes with diluted ink. It looks a little stark without the framing background elements but so far so good. My main goal for this building was to capture the weathered, patchy elements. I always forget how grotesquely time consuming this technique is, but... Continue Reading →
I started working on this new piece today on a block of 140lb Arches hotpress. Tomorrow I'll start the real work of rendering the image using diluted inks to model the forms. As I go along, I'll post some progress shots here on the blog. Although I did many works with this technique in the... Continue Reading →
Last night I finished Mysterious Garden Ex.1 a new silverpoint drawing. As the name implies, I plan to do a few more of these imaginary plants. This work is available on my Big Cartel webstore. On another note entirely, I have re-booted my book blog, Amnesiac's Library. It's a place where I talk about my... Continue Reading →
Here is my new drawing Beyond the Reach, just completed today. I hope you enjoy it. Beyond the Reach, 2020, ink on artboard, 14" x18" Beyond the Reach, details
Richard A. Kirk | Visual Artist | Author 