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
Pollen is a new drawing (personal work) that I finished towards the end of January. It was done using .13 & .18 Rotring Rapidograph pens. The image below is a quick iPhone shot of a new work in progress called Hearts Divided. I'm hoping to get it done in the next few weeks, working on... Continue Reading →
Birthday Girl is a new piece of personal work done in the stippling technique. It is available for sale. Please message me if interested. Serious inquiries only, thanks. - Richard
I've been balancing my production between personal work for upcoming group shows, illustration and fiction writing. Balance is hard to achieve, especially when you get seduced by one particular project. This week is was short stories. I finished two that were, sort of, almost there. I might drop one here, to celebrate the first anniversary... Continue Reading →
Symphonist No.5 is a silverpoint miniature (4"x3"). It's one of an ongoing series. Silverpoint lends itself beautifully to miniature work due to the precision you can get with the silver stylus. Over time, this drawing will darken as the particles of silver trapped by the ground begin to tarnish.
Dictionary.com defines grotesque as fantastic in the shaping and combination of forms,as in decorative work combining incongruous human and animal figures with scrolls,foliage,etc. This new piece is the first of many I'm doing on a beautiful block of 140lb Arches coldpress paper. My go-to paper is their hotpress, but the texture of the coldpress is... Continue Reading →
This is a new drawing just finished today. I've had this creature in my head for the last couple of weeks and needed to let it out. What interested me about this subject was the questions between the main figure and the weird cyclopean pupa thing on its back. Is it a child of the... Continue Reading →
I finally finished rendering The Tin Man's Dream in pointillism. This drawing was started back in 2014 as a line drawing. It sat for a year, during which time I digitally colored the image. At the end of last year I decided to complete it as a pointillism piece. I'm hanging on to the original,... Continue Reading →
In my last post, I mentioned a silverpoint show coming up in February. I will be exhibiting my pieces, Flowers of Wisdom and Ptah. The gallery press release is below my images. The Luster of the Line: Drawings in Metalpoint February 26 – March 25, 2016 Opeing Reception: Friday February 26, 6-9pm The Clement... Continue Reading →
I am involved in 2 shows coming up very soon. The first is called Permanence, a group show at Haven Gallery, themed around works primarily executed in ink. The Dawn Botanist, which I delivered to the framer last week, will be my contribution. It looks like it will be an amazing show. The second show... Continue Reading →
I am happy to announce that I will be releasing a new print in early 2016. The image is called Amnesiac's Library. It will be printed by LUNA 7 on 17" x 11" 285 gsm Hahnemuhle Torchon paper. The first 25 prints will be signed, and accompanied by a small sketch on a blank card.... Continue Reading →
Richard A. Kirk | Visual Artist | Author 