A wood engraving print of a close-up detailed view of an artichoke flower, showing the flower parts and surrounding leaves.  Black ink on cream paper.

Artichoke

MIXED EMOTIONS 

A digital collage featuring colorful markings behind black and white images of women being baptized with the text "Better to Pass Away than Fall Away".

Lukewarm

A digital painting of a pair of multicolored hands, broken into pieces, floating against a background of stars, bolts, and shards. 

Should We Crush His Sweet Hands?

A digital piece depicting three hands reaching for a flower. 

Hands, Flowers 

Double Rainbow 

A digital piece of a woman with braided hair standing in front of a forest purple, pink, blue, and green forest scene that has scattered eyes throughout the piece and feet emerging from the top. 

Eyes

An illustration of 13 species of big cats and wild cats against a black background and palm leaves.

Felidae Reginarum

This is an abstract image of two white bubbles moving upwards through dark blue water. The larger bubble on top shows increased detail of intricate flowing lines.

Ooh & Aah!

Revision

Digital painting of a baby elephant blowing bubbles at her annoyed mother, who's trying to enjoy her bath.

The Bath

Six feminine figures that have width like giant cookie cutters, running in a circle.  With a black background, their bright turquoise outline shimmers against blues and grays, striping as a blur giving them motion and dimension.

WOMANDALA

A huge yellow moon's face shows surprise to see a cow leaping over its surface, while a loon has already flown through the cratered landscape.  The image is revealed through rich textures and layers of ink on paper.  

Cow Over Moon Pierced by Loon

A middle-aged women with curly hair in a mask.

Self Portrait in a Mask

A negative space linoleum cut of Prince playing his guitar with a purple background, printed on sheet music.

O(+>

A painting of two Robots, one dark orange and one dark yellow, holding hands and looking at each other with happy glowing eyes, casting shadows from their bodies on a strip of sandy beach in front of a low horizon of whitecapped ocean waves, beneath a small but full bright moon lighting up a yellow and dark blue sky.

Moon Idea

I scanned one of my figure drawings into Photoshop and stretched it and added color.

Bearded Man

Nine squares, each representing a landscape somewhere between Minneapolis and Seattle, and then back again.  Each captures elements of sky, mountains and colors, capturing the weather and the time of day as well as the unique landscape of the moment.

Roadtrip

A bright yellow ceramic bird is in front of a blue and white paisley backdrop. 

Untitled from Birds

A group of farmers hold a giant pigeon on their shoulders. 

Peace

A yellow bear with a top hat and a bow tie and a blonde girl with her hair up with a scrunchie and a scrunchie on her wrist with a black and yellow background.

An Illustration of a young woman and her rabbit napping in a large rounded leaf, golden green with the afternoon sun.  

A Nap in Faye's Garden with Rabbit

A digital painting of three girls on a slanted hill burying a purple rat, in the background, there is a shrub wall littered with flowers, a white picket fence, and another hill that is comically narrow with a mansion squished on top.

The Death of the Rat King

A woodblock print of silhouetted trees against a blue and white winter landscape.

First Snow

An image of a cross-legged creature with two flamingo heads.

Flamingo Mingle

Hand colored linocut of a mother and her son.

Mother and SOon

An impressionistic hand-pressed monotype print in black & white of a couple coming together at the end of the day to share an intimate dance in their kitchen.

Coming Home

Four pieces of corn husk printed in black on white paper to highlight each textured line of the husks.

Together

A mandala created by digital manipulation of photographs of a moth. Earth colors are dominant, shades of reddish brown and shades of green. An image of healing and reflection.

"Moth Mandala"

Monochromatic white, black and gray digital illustration of a black cat on stone railing of castle in the the light of a midnight full moon. 

She Rules Her Kingdom by the Light of the Moon

A simplistic cartoon face in the center of large, vibrant flowers on a black background scattered with thin green lines. A single red flower is shown near to the face.

Artichoke, 2018

Julie Kirihara