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Kirk Bjorndahl in a computer self
portrait done in 1989. |
Kirk Bjorndahl has been a professional artist for over
fifteen
years. Kirk was a member of the National Art Honor Society in
high school and later he graduated from Luther College in Decorah
Iowa with a Bachelor's Degree in Studio Art.
Kirk has been drawing caricatures professionally for more
than fifteen years and has drawn well over ten thousand faces. He
has been seen caricaturing at Six Flags Over Texas in Dallas
Texas, at the Texas State Fair in Dallas, and in the malls of
Austin Texas. His pencils, paper, and airbrush have also been
spotted at the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and
some of the smaller malls of the Twin Cities. Local arts and
crafts festivals in Minnesota have had Kirk Bjorndahl do
drawings for local patrons. For the last few years he's drawn
at the Minnesota State Fair, and the Tulsa State Fair. Kirk has done graphic illustration for some major companies
such as 3M, Allina Health Services, and Hormel Foods. His graphic web design is all
over the United States in places like Texas, Florida,
Minnesota, California, and Vermont, and also across the pond
in the UK, Germany, and Italy. He's produced coloring books,
Flash cartoons, paintings, and silks for magicians. Having been on the web since 1996 offering his artistic
talents, Kirk's art, such as painted portraits and numerous
caricatures and cartoons, are all over the world. Some of
the material in the
Drawing Basics section, although understood and taught
by many professional artists and teachers, is also presented
in Betty Edwards' book "The
New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". I learned
the concepts I talk about in the
Drawing Basics section in Dan Gray's art classes in
1977. |
