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Paul Zapatka Artist

Human Figure

This folder shows four male and four female figure drawings I've drawn since and in college(at American University) and elsewhere(Tufts University summer class) or RISD's Museum or from photographs over the past thirty years.

Hercules(after_the_Italian_Sculptor_Anto

Hercules(after the Italian Sculptor, Antonio Pollanolo)

2013 black conte

29.00 x 23.00 inches, $300

Zapatka-The Dying Gaul at the National G

The Dying Gaul at the National Gallery of Art's West Wing(after a BC Greek Sculptor)

2017 color pencil on paper

23 x 29 inches, $350

This is a drawing based on a photograph I took at the National Gallery's West Wing and is the only figure drawing I ever had accepted in a juried show at the Art League Gallery in Alexandria, VA in Fall, 2017. By showing the 21st Century visitors(with cell phone it appears) in the bottom left corner of this drawing next to the closer Dying Gaul, ancient sculpture, I truly captured an old and new world contrasting and intriguing image.

Zapatka- Female Figure at Tufts Universi

Sitting Beauty at Tufts University, MA

1987, 2012 graphite pencil

29 x 23 inches, $300

Zapatka-Female Figure at American Univer

Female Figure at American University, Washington, DC

1989, 2012 charcoal on paper

29 x 23 inches, $325

This is a charcoal drawing I drew of a female model at the American University art studios first in 1989 and then later redrawn in 2012 in my own art studio, both in American University Park, Washington, DC. This drawing is the only

figure drawing I ever had published in a magazine,

American Literary at American University in 1989.

Zapatka-The Thinker(Sculpture outside th

The Thinker(Sculpture

outside the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, PA)

2018 oil pastel on gray paper 29 x 23 inches $325

Zapatka-The Thinker and the Bird in Phil

The Thinker and the Bird in Philadelphia, PA

2018 black pen on paper 21 x 17 inches $275

This is a black pen drawing I drew in 2018 based on a drawing I drew of Rodin's The Thinker Sculpture in front of his museum in Philadelphia about four years before. By drawing possibly a sparrow bird on the ground below the sculpture I captured a reflective, pensive, pondering big-and-small-creatures-of God image existing on what was a sunny day in the cool city of Philadelphia, PA.

Zapatka-Degas Dancer Sculpture at the Rh

Degas Dancer Sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum

1990 ink and ink wash on paper

14 x 11 inches, $260

Zapatka-Degas's Little Dancer Sculpture

Degas's Little Dancer Sculpture and Others at the National Gallery of Art's West Wing

2014 color pencil on gray paper 28 x 22 inches, $350

This is a color pencil drawing I drew based on a photograph I took at The National Gallery of Art's West Wing back in 2012 or 2013. In this drawing I try to show the viewer both alive humans and a sculpted human being existing simultaneously at the NGA's West Wing and maybe also connecting the 19th Century

world(the Background Van Gogh still life) with the early 2oth Century(the Degas sculpture) and the 21st

Century(the cool young couple in the 21st Century checking out that Van Gogh in the background) intriguingly so.

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