Craig Paul Nowak

DRAWING

I like drawing for it's ability to give you quick gestural, lively results. A painting takes longer. You can make a painting with fast gestural strokes, but the chances of it getting muddy increase. I don't want to lose control. I just want to get loose with my drawings. It's for that reason that I use drawing primarily for temporally based artwork artwork requiring closely alligned exploration, small works and illustrations, and pure exploration.

WORDS AND TEXT

Sometimes the act of creation is the most important thing to an artist. This series of drawings was exactly that: Draw. Write. Don't think. Just do.

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DRAWING 01

DRAWING 01

DRAWING 02

DRAWING 02

DRAWING 03

DRAWING 03

SMILE INSTALLATION

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My SMILE series was drawn using Copic and Prismacolor (alcohol-based) Markers.

For this series, I chose drawing as my method of depicting the emotion of happiness, markers for their colorful and quick results, and smiling people as the subject matter. The words in the background are inspired by the act of smiling.

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DRAWING: SMILE 01

DRAWING: SMILE 01

DRAWING: SMILE 02

DRAWING: SMILE 02

DRAWING: SMILE 03

DRAWING: SMILE 03

DRAWING: SMILE 04

DRAWING: SMILE 04

DRAWING: SMILE 05

DRAWING: SMILE 05

DRAWING: SMILE 06

DRAWING: SMILE 06

DRAWING: SMILE 07

DRAWING: SMILE 07

DRAWING: SMILE 08

DRAWING: SMILE 08

DRAWING: SMILE 09

DRAWING: SMILE 09

LARGE-SCALE PORTRAIT DRAWING

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PORTRAIT SKETCHES

DRAWING: Sketch 01

DRAWING: Sketch 01

DRAWING: Sketch 02

DRAWING: Sketch 02

DRAWING: Sketch 03

DRAWING: Sketch 03

DAILY SELF-PORTRAITS

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RAPID GESTURAL PORTRAITS

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