page_title: Greg Simkins
section_title: Style
hierarchical_section_title: Greg Simkins / Style
caption_attribution_description: English: Good Knight by Greg 'CRAOLA' Simkins, acrylic on canvas wrapped panel, 72" x 96"
context_page_description: Greg "Craola" Simkins is an American artist.
context_section_description: At the age of 18, Simkins began doing graffiti under the name "Craola". Graffiti drove his inspiration to create and gave him the confidence and experience to paint large scale works. It also taught him color theory and perspective while further developing his artistic skills, as later demonstrated in his masterful work with acrylics.
  Out of his love for the animal world he seeks to bring together unlikely camaraderies and conflicts from the landscape of his mind to the confines of canvas, paper, and walls. It is common to see deer with killer whales, puppies with crustacean pals, and birds sharing the air with rodents in his playfully ominous to ominously playful acrylic compositions informed by smooth, graffiti gradients and balanced layouts that draw the eye through story lines and little vignettes.
caption: "Good Knight" by Greg 'Craola' Simkins, acrylic on canvas wrapped panel, 72" x 96"
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