Pete Nawara

I got to meet, photograph and paint these two lovelies. Please have a look at dontbullymybreed.org and help out any way you can #dontbullymybreed #pitbull#pitbullsofinstagram #art #oilpainting#animalrescue #dog #rescuedog

Some further effort on this #wip #painting #oilpainting #art #insidethestudio #artofinstagram (at Pilsen Art & Design Center)

#wip dirty glasses?!?! #art #paintinginprogress #oilpainting #insidethestudio #studiolife (at Pilsen Art & Design Center)

I hung this piece up on its new lovely home yesterday. 😍🤓👨🏻‍💼 (at Lincoln Park Zoo)

Really loving my #gracopaintsprayer and how quickly I can prime a 60x60" and a 66x103" canvas! Watch this space for some freshly painted pieces coming your way! #art #studiotime #artistsstudio #primingcanvas (at Pilsen Art & Design Center)

Here's my latest digital self portrait. Tell me what you think!

Here's a quick self portrait! Enjoy!

New piece of kit! Still getting the hang of it! @michaelpasier let's prime! #gracopaintsprayers @gracopaintsprayers (at Pilsen Art & Design Center)

I'm pleased to announce that I currently have the following two pieces in rotation at Rarity Gallery in Mykonos, Greece. They are a part of an ongoing series of works investigating self-consciousness, ego, superego and the human personality. There is a lot of fantastic work at this gallery and I'm honored to have my work displayed along side it. If you have the opportunity, please drop in and have a look! Please share this post if you think you might know people who can get out to view the show!

Some good progress on this piece today. #oilpainting #art #workinprogress #nawarastudios #studiolife #leonardcohen (at Pilsen Art & Design Center)

Inspired by the Kerry James Marshall show at the MCA (which you haven't seen, you should really get on that!), I've decided to do some paintings on tarps. I started this one yesterday. Working on tarp feels pretty normal, but the hanging and stretching process was a bit weird. I wonder if I have to pre-shrink these suckers to avoid getting this curved stretching. I went back in and added extra grommets between each factory grommet, but the canvas was already too stiff from gesso to stretch those pieces. I have another tarp that I added extra grommets before stretching, so hopefully that will work well. If anyone has any experience with this, I'd love to hear about it. And if you're reading this, Kerry, please chime in! ;)

Loving the new studio. Working on a new oil painting. #selfportrait #selfie #oilpainting #art #workinprogress #nawarastudios (at Pilsen Art & Design Center)

Another Paper53 painting of my own face.

Here's another painting made on Paper53 using an apple pencil on the ipad pro.

New studio! Can't wait to move in and get settled! Studio visits soon please! (at Pilsen Art & Design Center)

 https://paper.fiftythree.com/2172740-Pete-Nawara/12213146

These digital self portraits were created on an iPad Pro using an Apple Pencil in the Paper53 app. I plan to make a whole collection to be printed in moleskins, hand worked, and sold in editions. Any interest??