Meet Artist Noli Novak
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Wall Street Journal Hedcut Artist-Illustrator
This page is about Noli Novak, one of the excellent illustrators who creates the hedcut portraits for the Wall Street Journal newspaper. Noli Novak resides in Weehawken, New Jersey.
She has been producing hedcut portraits since 1987. In this page, you will learn more about Noli, her artwork, and have access to her blog and website.
She has been producing hedcut portraits since 1987. In this page, you will learn more about Noli, her artwork, and have access to her blog and website.
Noli Novak's Hedcut Blog
Noli Novak on Squidoo
- Hedcuts on Squidoo : Lensmaster Page
- Noli Novak's lensmaster page on Squidoo
- Hedcuts: pen and ink stipple portraits as seen in The Wall Street Journal
- 'Hedcut' is short for 'Headline Cut', used in newspaper or publishing lingo for any illustration included in a headlining story. The Wall Street Journal has coined it's characteristic stipple portraits as hedcuts. The paper has used artist renderings in various techniques since the very first issue.
Pages of Interest

If you liked this page about Noli Novak, WSJ stipple hedcut artist and illustrator, you may also like these pages:
- Kevin Sprouls, Illustrator
- Kevin Sprouls is the artist best known for the creation of the Wall Street Journal Portrait style, also known as the 'hedcut.'Kevin Sprouls completed the hedcut self portrait at left in May of 2008. Read on to learn more about Kevin Sprouls, his art, and current projects.
- All About Stipple Portraits, Hedcut Portraits, and Ink Dot Portraits
- Portraits and general subject drawings made out of many ink dots laid carefully side by side are often called pointillism or stipple. ...
Noli Novak's websites, blogs, interviews
- Atlanta Artist Examiner: Interview with professional hedcut artist Noli Novak
- Atlanta Article: Interview with professional hedcut artist Noli Novak by local Atlanta Artist Examiner expert, Darla Dixon.
- Stipple Portraits - Hedcut Pen and Ink Drawings - Hedcuts - Stipple Illustration by Wall Street Journal Hedcut portrait artist Noli Novak
- Wall Street Journal Stipple portraits, Wall Street Journal hedcuts, Wall Street Journal portrait, hedcut pen and ink drawings, and black and white hedcut illustration by Wall Street Journal portrait artist Noli Novak, using the stipple, line art style.
- HEDCUTS
- HEDCUTS - Hedcut blog by Noli Novak
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