"there is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion" Sir Frances Bacon, Of Beauty, Essays" 1625
This is a new drawing, just finished today. Nightmare has just distracted the sun (day) and the moon (night) so that she can go abroad unseen. You can click on the images to see larger versions. "Horror and fatality have been stalking abroad in all ages". Edgar Allan Poe - Richard.
Last summer I spent some time photographing things in my garden with a macro lens. Some of the pictures were put on a blog called Nocturnalogic, which I have since discontinued. I have salvaged the images and added them to a gallery as part of this blog. Simply mouse over "Gallery" in the header and... Continue Reading →
Tale of Tales is a beautiful animated film by Yuri Norstein. This book by Clare Kitson is an in depth look at the making of the film, which examines many of the director's influences. The book is filled with fascinating background material, photographs and conceptual work. From Wikipedia: "Tale of Tales, like Tarkovsky's Mirror, attempts... Continue Reading →
This book was given to me as a Christmas gift. I've admired books by Porcupine Quill in the past but somehow I never came across this one. The pages are filled with the fantastic etchings of Rudolf Kurz, an artist living in Canada. They are presented as full page spreads or details carefully placed to... Continue Reading →
I spent part of today inventorying my stock of prints and thinking about images that I'd like to do as prints in the new year. Any suggestions? You can find prints in my print shop if you are interested. Stocks of many of the print images are down to single digits and may not be... Continue Reading →
Ghosted Earworm Sinistral Sister Nameless Informant Forbidden by the Deep Centipede Demon Tin Man Strangewood Tadpole Pins Fairy Feller's Master Stroke Ebb and Flow Bell Demon Freedom of Imagination Belial Leviathan Green Demon Seven Sisters Hunter's Blind Apples Time Traveler Nighshade Warm Sea Invisible World These are the titles of all the drawings and paintings... Continue Reading →
This is a small graphite piece done today on some Bristol I had tucked away. The paper has almost no tooth, which was kind of fun to work on. Ordinary HB lead in the pencil. The result is a little like silverpoint in appearance. -Richard.
The thought behind this piece was to portray an entity that waits for the sleeper beyond the threshold of consciousness. The subtitle is "Awake for the Sleeper." Appearances aside, the creature is not meant to be unambiguously malevolent. It is meant to represent the great unknown of our unconscious mind. The elements from which this... Continue Reading →
This is my latest drawing, Earworm. I started out intending to finish this one as a graphite drawing but once I got into it I felt pointillism would bring out its true character. With the lack of background all of the focus is on the character. I wanted the silhouette to read as human but... Continue Reading →
These are some line drawings from one of my sketch books. I think that I'm going to develop the first one into a graphite drawing. - Richard.
Richard A. Kirk | Visual Artist | Author 