Kirk Sheppard is a Penticton BC based award winning tattoo artist working at Urge 3 tattoo and an accomplished fine artist, working in watercolour, ink, acrylics, coloured pencils & chalk.

His fine art is heavily influenced by traditional tattoo imagery (both western and eastern), as well as lowbrow and pin-up art from the 1940s onward. He is also the co-author and illustrator of The Tattoo Colouring Book.

tattooing: since 2001

painting: since 2003

drawing: since he could hold a pencil

Media: watercolor, ink, acrylics, coloured pencils & chalk

this years' goals: more tattoo flash sets, more paintings

long term goals: becoming the best tattoo artist and fine artist he can be, learning as much about tattooing and its history as possible

Influences: Cara Sheppard; Leo Zulueta; Ed Hardy; Greg Irons; Rick Griffin; Robert Williams; Bobby 'Boris' Pickett; traditional tattooing (western & eastern); outsider, lowbrow, and pin-up art; music; horror movies and well-written books