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Richard A. Kirk

"there is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion" Sir Frances Bacon, "Of Beauty, Essays" 1625

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Lander 1

The inspiration for Lander 1—and yes, expect a Lander 2 and 3—came from watching the Perseverance rover descend on Mars … More

birds, exploration, eyes, lander, organic, plants, probe, pupa, sowbugs

Shop Update

I took some time today to update my webstore on Big Cartel. I added a stippled ink drawing called Scout … More

birds, Crows, meditation, Scout, solitude, Witches, Wormwood

3 Windows

One might be forgiven for thinking this piece a surrealist response to Aubrey Beardsley’s illustration, The Examination of the Herald … More

Beardsley, birds, burning building, doubleface, fire, Lysistrata, masks, optics, surrealism, Vision

Three Windows

I started working on this new piece today on a block of 140lb Arches hotpress. Tomorrow I’ll start the real … More

Arches paper, birds, fire, hotpress, inkdrawing, surrealism, underdrawing, workinprogress

Atropa

I took advantage of a very rainy May weekend to finish this new piece called Atropa. It was done with … More

beetle, birds, brachiopod, cheese, crustacean, elephant, fungus, kingdom of life, sticks

Wedding of the Earth and Sky

For some reason, I neglected to post the completed image of this piece. Here you go, along with a few … More

birds, books, clouds, dark art, fantastic art, nature, organic forms

Aviator

This watercolour is a study for a future oil painting. I wanted to give the figure an avian quality, hence … More

acrylic ink, avian, birds, dark art, monsters, painting, tadpole, upcoming projects, watercolour

The Dark Bead Finished

The Dark Bead is finally finished! This image shows the completed drawing, The Dark Bead. You can see details and … More

birds, chimera, dark art, ink drawing, monsters, pointillism, work in progress

The Drowned Libary, New Prints Available

I now have 10 giclee prints of my drawing “The Drowned Library” available in my print webstore.

birds, books, Drowned Library, fantastic art, fish, heron, ink, Library, prints

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